Warehouse Automation Software Engineering Lead

Dematic; Wauwatosa (WI); On-site; USD 129,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Dematic is seeking an Software Engineering Manager in the United States to lead a team delivering Warehouse Control System solutions for customer projects. You will partner with stakeholders to ensure project success, proactive issue resolution, and strong customer satisfaction throughout the lifecycle.

The role combines people leadership, engineering management, and portfolio oversight to optimize staffing, delivery quality, and execution. Travel up to 15% may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience in industrial automation, warehouse execution/control systems, material handling, or related industries.
• 3+ years of people management or technical leadership experience.
• Experience leading technical teams responsible for software project delivery.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and balancing competing priorities.
• Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated experience managing engineering resources, project staffing, and project forecasting through either formal people leadership or project lead responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead a software engineering team responsible for project design, development, testing, deployment, commissioning, and go-live support activities.
• Oversee staffing and assignment of engineering resources across a portfolio of customer projects.
• Collaborate with project teams to assess project risks, staffing requirements, schedule impacts, and technical challenges.
• Review project health and execution metrics to identify opportunities for improvement and proactively mitigate risks.
• Support project teams with solution architecture reviews, execution strategy development, and issue resolution.
• Facilitate cross-functional communication between engineering, project management, controls engineering, commissioning, account management, and customer stakeholders.
• Travel as required to support customer engagements, project reviews, engineering workshops, and critical project milestones (typically up to 15%).

Skills

Software engineering

People management

Stakeholder management

Customer-facing communication

Project forecasting

Resource planning

Execution strategy

Industrial automation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Dematic is seeking an Software Engineering Manager in the United States to lead a team delivering Warehouse Control System solutions for customer projects. You will partner with stakeholders to ensure project success, proactive issue resolution, and strong customer satisfaction throughout the lifecycle.

The role combines people leadership, engineering management, and portfolio oversight to optimize staffing, delivery quality, and execution. Travel up to 15% may be required.