Chief Engineer Principal – Software

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 youll find more than 30000 Pierce apparatuses on the road that are making a difference in peoples 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 vehicles 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 - Bachelors 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 analyze and interpret business manuals technical procedures and/or government regulations: Read analyze and interpret scientific and technical journals financial reports and legal documents.
• 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 Solving: Work requires the ability to plan and perform work in light of new or constantly changing problems work from broad instruction and deal with complex factors not easily evaluated. Decisions require considerable judgment initiative and ingenuity in areas there is little precedent.
• Supervisory/Managerial: General instructing scheduling and reviewing the work of others performing the same or directly related work. Acts as lead worker.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Physical Demands: Frequent: Standing Walking/Running Sitting Reaching Hearing Talking Visual Typing; Occasional: Driving Fine Dexterity Manual Dexterity; Upper Extremity Repetitive Motion; Seldom: Lifting/Carrying 25lbs. Pushing/Pulling 25llbs.
• Non-Physical Demands: Frequent: Analysis/Reasoning Communication/Interpretation Math/Mental Computation Reading Sustained Mental Activity (i.e. auditing problem solving grant writing composing reports) Writing.
• Environmental Demands: Frequent: Work Alone Frequent Task Changes Tedious/Exacting Work; Occasional: High Volume Public Contact.
• Work Schedule: Routine shift hours. Infrequent overtime weekend or shift rotation.
• Demands/Deadlines: High volume and variable work demands and deadlines impose strain on routine basis or considerable stress intermittently; OR regular direct contacts with distressed individuals within the immediate work environment; and/or exposure to demands and pressures from persons other than immediate supervisor.

Pay Range:

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