Lead Software Engineer

20600 Emerald Parkway, Cleveland, Ohio 44135 United States of America

Since 1916, Oatey has provided reliable, high-quality products for the residential and commercial plumbing industries, with a commitment to delivering quality, building trust and improving lives. Today, Oatey operates a comprehensive manufacturing and distribution network comprised of industry leading family of companies:
Oatey, Cherne, Keeney, Quick Drain, Hercules, Dearborn, Oatey Canada, William H. Harvey, Masters, Contact, Belanger, Lansas, and Durgo.

At Oatey, we're doing big things — and by joining us, you'll have the chance to do big things too. You can build a strong career in an innovative, inclusive, high-performance environment, with the confidence that your company cares — about you, our customers and our world. Ready to make an impact in a place where you matter?

The Lead Software Engineer serves as a technical leader responsible for the design, development, implementation, and support of custom-developed applications that support business objectives throughout the full software development lifecycle. This role develops and delivers cloud-native applications, integrations, extensions, automation solutions, and data services using cloud-centric development frameworks, partnering with Business Analysts, the Cloud Architect, Developers, the Enterprise Architect, and project stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards and best practices.

In addition to hands-on development, the role provides technical leadership and mentoring to other developers, coordinates development efforts with internal teams and external consultants, and ensures solution quality through design and code reviews. The Lead Software Engineer also influences the organization's cloud application roadmap and development strategies. This position reports to the SAP Technical Manager.

• Design, estimate, develop, test, and deploy custom applications using Node.js, event triggers, integration tools, API management, and AI-assisted development for deployment to SAP and non-SAP cloud environments.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, enterprise architects, and business analysts to analyze requirements and to design and estimate scalable, cloud-native solutions aligned with clean core architecture principles.
• Serve as the technical lead for custom development solutions on cloud development platforms and tools, providing solution architecture guidance, effort estimation, governance, and delivery oversight.
• Provide production support, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, performance optimization, and issue resolution for custom-developed applications and integrations.
• Lead development reviews, security assessments, and solution design discussions involving cloud-centric platforms.
• Conduct quality reviews of custom code, maintain technical documentation, and establish development standards, governance practices, and Dev Sec Ops  methodologies.
• Mentor developers, integration specialists, and project teams through coaching, design reviews, and knowledge-sharing activities.
• Serve as a recognized application development subject matter expert, providing feasibility estimates for new project requests.
• Participate in planned deployments, application enhancements, and system upgrades, and provide occasional after-hours support to ensure business continuity.

• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience designing, developing, and implementing system integrations and custom-developed cloud-based applications across the full software development lifecycle, including REST/SOAP web services and enterprise-scale…