Digital Innovation Software Engineering Leader

Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

The DI Software Engineering Leader leads the planning, execution, and continuous improvement of software engineering development, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality, secure, and compliant systems. This role is pivotal in driving measurable outcomes such as improved project and product delivery timelines, increased team productivity, reduced defect rates, and realizing business objectives. The position is ideally suited to an energetic and intellectually curious individual who will be part of a collaborative, purposeful, and passionate team in the manufacturing industry operating with agility and leveraging modern architecture, tools & processes.

Responsibilities include actively managing team performance by setting clear, quantifiable objectives, providing structured feedback, and fostering professional growth through targeted coaching and mentorship while maintaining a culture of psychology safety, accountability, and people-first mentality. This role has direct managerial responsibility and oversees resource planning, talent acquisition, and people management for a single software engineer team.

Effective stakeholder engagement through structured relationship management is critical to the success of this role. The Engineer Leader is responsible for integrating comprehensive people, process, and technology solutions to drive innovation, strengthen organizational capabilities, and deliver sustained, measurable benefits aligned with the strategic goals of internal stakeholders and product owners.

The leader facilitates the ongoing organizational adoption of valuable practices and culture such as product-led strategy, value-mapping, iterative investment, and genuine agile methods. Cultural objectives and alignment emphasize a blameless approach, psychological safety, autonomy, grace, ownership, and fostering a team mindset for both successes and setbacks, all aimed at supporting a harmonious balance of people and performance.

• Sets policy and drives adherence to standards, best practices & modern tech/tooling for cloud & edge/OT software systems development, including change management. Continuously monitors and reduces technical debt.
• Leads activities that make security and privacy integral to development processes.
• Identifies and manages the resources necessary for all stages of software development projects.
• Ensures technical, financial, quality, performance, scalability, and documentation targets are met.

• Forms, maintains and leads work groups and individuals to achieve organizational objectives.
• Sets quality, performance, and capability targets aligned with organizational goals.
• Monitors performance and working relationships, provides feedback to address individual issues.
• Nurtures skill development in line with team and personal goals.
• Adjusts workload, targets and team capacity to support individual growth.
• Actively participates in formal processes such as forecasting, budgeting, recruitment, reward, promotion and disciplinary procedures.

• Plans and manages the acquisition and deployment of resources to meet specific needs and ongoing demand.
• Defines and manages the implementation of resourcing processes and tools.
  
  Advises on available resourcing options and tailors approaches to meet requirements.
• Engages with external parties in support of resourcing plans.
• Monitors effectiveness & efficiency of onshore & offshore resourcing processes and drives continuous improvements.

• Translates communications and stakeholder engagement strategies into clearly defined activities and deliverables.
• Acts as the accountable point of contact for developing and maintaining stakeholder engagement including adoption strategies and plans.
• Ensures productive relationships between stakeholders and high-ownership engineers.
• Captures and disseminates technical and business information.
• Identifies and manages the…