IT- Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

The Lead Software Engineer provides technical leadership for the design, development, implementation, and support of enterprise software applications and technology solutions. This role is accountable for solution architecture, engineering quality, delivery execution, and mentoring engineering teams. The Lead Software Engineer partners with business, architecture, security, and product teams to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable technology solutions aligned with enterprise objectives.

Essential Functions:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications and services.
• Create scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Develop APIs, integrations, databases, and user-facing applications.
• Write clean, maintainable, and reusable code following coding standards and best practices as well as develop these standards.
• Write technical specifications for applications, systems and solutions.
• Participate in solution design, technical reviews, and architecture discussions.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers and project teams.
• Lead technical design sessions and code reviews.
• Recommend technologies, frameworks, and development approaches.
• Support the establishment and enforcement of engineering standards and best practices.
• Serve as technical lead for complex initiatives and strategic technology implementations.
• Drive architecture decisions and ensure alignment with enterprise technology standards.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices, coding standards, and design patterns.
• Provide technical direction across multiple projects and development teams.
• Lead resolution of complex technical challenges and production incidents.
• Influence technology roadmaps and modernization efforts.
• Coordinate engineering activities across teams to ensure successful delivery of large-scale initiatives.
• Identify technical dependencies, risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Ensure engineering deliverables meet quality, security, and operational requirements.
• Define solution architectures that support scalability, resiliency, security, and maintainability.
• Ensure solutions support cloud, API, data, and integration strategies.
• Ensure appropriate testing strategies, automation, and quality engineering practices are implemented across solutions.
• Troubleshoot application issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Ensure service levels and operational support expectations are met.
• Follow secure coding practices and enterprise security requirements.
• Support audit, risk, and compliance activities as needed.
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures.
• Promote Dev Sec Ops  and Site Reliability Engineering practices where applicable.

Additional

Essential Functions:

• Ensure compliance with Northwest's policies and procedures, and Federal/State regulations.
• Navigate Microsoft Office Software, computer applications, and software specific to the department in order to maximize technology tools and gain efficiency.
• Work as part of a team.
• Work with on-site equipment.

What You Bring to the Team:

• Participate in other projects on request.
• Safety and Health for those without supervisory duties:
• Abide by the rules of the safety and loss prevention program.
• Perform work tasks in a safe manner.
• Report any and all injuries to supervisor.
• Know what to do in case of an emergency.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Information Technology (Software Development track) or Engineering with a concentration in programming AND 10 years relevant work experience
• Or Master's Degree Computer Science, Information Technology (Software Development track) or Engineering with a concentration in programming AND 8 years equivalent work experience
• Or Work Experience 12 - 15 years Application support & maintenance, production support, application development, database administration, system administration, system engineering or equivalent experience using Microsoft technology stack (e.g., Windows, .NET, SQL Server) or equivalent technologies and toolset e.g., Java, JSON, Python, Oracle, MySQL, Linux, etc.

General Employee Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to establish effective working relationships among team members and participate in solving problems and making decisions
• Ability to present and express ideas and information clearly and concisely in a manner appropriate to the audience, whether oral or written
• Ability to actively listen to what others are saying to achieve understanding, sharing information with others and facilitating the open exchange of ideas and information
• Ability to establish courses of action for self to accomplish…