Omni Specialty Packaging, LLC

Brooksource’s retail client is seeking a Lead Software Engineer with strong technical leadership and solution architecture experience to support a growing portfolio of business-focused software initiatives. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing hands-on development with team leadership, mentoring engineers, and modernizing legacy systems within an Azure-based environment.

This position will lead a small team of 4 mid-to-senior software engineers, while partnering closely with QA, Business Analysts, Product Managers, and a Unified Transformation (UT) team to drive enhancements, integrations, and system modernization efforts. The team operates in an agile, sprint-based environment and supports core retail business systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the technical lead for a portfolio team, providing coaching, mentorship, and technical direction
• Spend ~50% hands-on initially (coding, code reviews, troubleshooting), with a planned transition toward architecture, delegation, and design oversight
• Lead solution design and architecture discussions, with future participation in architecture review boards
• Guide the modernization of legacy systems, applying modern engineering principles to improve scalability, maintainability, and cost efficiency
• Partner with the Unified Transformation team to identify technical risk, rework or re-engineer existing integrations, and stand up new solutions aligned to modern workflows
• Translate technical concepts clearly to business stakeholders and communicate effectively upward
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners (QA, Business Analysts, Product Managers) within a ~12-person portfolio team
• Support business-driven software enhancements and enterprise integrations
• Work within an agile, sprint-based delivery model using Azure DevOps for work items and issue tracking

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of overall experience in software development
• 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams or serving as a technical lead (flexible depending on depth of leadership experience)
• Proven experience mentoring, coaching, and effectively delegating work to mid- and senior-level engineers
• Strong proficiency in C#
• Hands-on experience with the Microsoft Azure platform
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, including writing and maintaining stored procedures
• Exposure to solution architecture, including system design, integrations, and modernization strategies
• Experience working with and modernizing legacy codebases
• Experience working in agile/scrum environments
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps for backlog management and issue tracking, with exposure to GitHub for source code repositories
• Experience with enterprise-scale integrations and modernization initiatives
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience supporting or building software solutions in a retail environment
• Familiarity with Python

About Brooksource

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Pay: $70.00 - $80.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Janesville, WI 53546