Chief Engineer Principal - Software

oshkoshcorporation; United States; Sur place; USD 150 000 - 210 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Pierce Manufacturing, an Oshkosh company, is seeking a Chief Engineer Principal - Software to lead the Azure cloud platform for connected vehicles and deliver scalable, secure software services.

You will blend architecture leadership with hands-on development, guiding cross-functional teams to translate product needs into robust cloud-native solutions that drive performance and value for fire and emergency equipment customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.

Responsabilités

• Architect software for a connected-vehicle Azure cloud platform across backend, data, APIs, and web/mobile integrations.
• Develop cloud-native services, APIs, event-driven processing and data-intensive applications.
• Establish architectural and coding standards; mentor engineers and improve quality.
• Collaborate with embedded engineers, product owners and leads to translate needs into solutions and remove blockers.
• Improve availability, latency, security, and cost efficiency of the platform.

Connaissances

Backend APIs

C#/.NET

Azure

Docker

CI/CD

Event-driven

Cloud Architecture

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Outils

Azure

Docker

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Description du poste

About Pierce, an Oshkosh company

At Pierce Manufacturing, we build trucks that protect people and communities around the world. To our team, there is no room for anything less than providing the absolute best. Since 1913, building truck bodies on Model T Ford chassis in an old converted church has evolved to creating highly customized, carefully designed and engineering pumpers, aerials, tankers and rescue units that have no equal. Today, you'll find more than 30,000 Pierce apparatuses on the road that are making a difference in people's lives, every day. To us, every step in the process of building our trucks is personal. From innovation and expertise, to the customization and service. Our trucks are designed to perform under the toughest conditions.

FINAL ROUND INTERVIEW WILL BE HELD IN PERSON IN APPLETON, WI.

At Oshkosh Corporation, we are redefining how mission-critical vehicles connect, communicate, and deliver value through technology. As Chief Engineer Principal - Software, you will play a pivotal role in advancing our next-generation, cloud-native connected vehicle telematics platform serving fire and emergency response, refuse collection, and concrete mixer vehicles. This is an opportunity to combine architectural leadership and hands‑on software engineering to build innovative, scalable, reliable software solutions that transform vehicle data into actionable intelligence and deliver meaningful impact for our customers.

YOUR IMPACT

• Architecture leadership - Lead the software architecture for connected vehicle's Azure cloud platform across cloud backend, data, APIs, web and mobile integrations. Make pragmatic decisions balancing scalability, reliability, security, performance, built in quality and cost.
• Hands-on engineering - Develop cloud-native services, APIs, event-driven processing and data-intensive applications.
• Engineering excellence - Establish architectural and coding standards. Mentor engineers and raise engineering quality.
• Cross-functional delivery - Partner with embedded engineers, product owners and engineering leads to translate product needs into sound technical solutions, remove roadblocks and help team successfully deliver sprint commitments.
• Platform optimization - Improve availability, latency, security, operational readiness and cost efficiency through continuous improvements.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education - Bachelor's degree in Computer engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience developing backend software and APIs for cloud native applications.
• Strong programming skills in C#, .NET Core or similar programming language.
• Experience with Azure cloud technologies, including Azure functions, Event Grid, Event Hub, Azure Web PubSub, and Azure Communication Service, Azure Service Bus
• Experience designing cloud data stores ADX, SQL, time-series data, and related data services such as CosmosDB and Redis.
• Experience deploying containerized services (Docker, Azure Container Apps), CI/CD and infrastructure as code such as GitHub Actions and Terraform Enterprise.
• Experience with managing and optimizing Azure cloud cost.
• Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging patterns and real-time data processing.

STANDOUT QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience designing and developing cloud applications for connected vehicles, devices, or equipment at scale .
• Experience designing secure, observable cloud services using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics and cloud security best practices.
• Experience with Linux command-line environments, including system administration, troubleshooting and maintaining self-hosted GitHub Actions runners for CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong collaboration, problem-solving and communication skills. Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, balance architectural rigor with delivery speed.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Internal Contacts: Contact with peers and others involving explanation of information (these contacts may be within or outside department or division), and the gathering of factual information; may include the communication of sensitive or confidential information.
• External Contacts: Limited external contact to gather information, answer queries, or ask assistance.
• Communication Skills: Read, write and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos; Read and interpret safety rules, operating/maintenance instructions and procedure manuals; Write routine reports, correspondence and speak effectively before both internal and external groups; Read and interpret basic instructions.
• Decision-Making: Significant responsibility for decisions and final results, affecting more than one function or a function with multiple unites. Substantial analysis is required and many factors must be weighted before a decision can be reached.
• Complexity, Judgment and Problem Solvin