Senior Lead Software Engineer

Location: Indianapolis

Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 40 brands, 14,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond.

Additionally, Allegion is proud to be recognized with the 2026 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA) for the third consecutive year, earning distinction in both the employee engagement and strengths categories. This year, Allegion also received Gallup’s With Distinction honor — a designation reserved for a select group of organizations that go above and beyond in building exceptional workplace cultures.

Senior Lead Software Engineer The Senior Lead Software Engineer is a hands-on player-coach who partners with business users, product leaders, and technology teams to solve high-value Order Management problems through secure, scalable software. You will work across discovery, solution design, hands-on development, deployment, and adoption while leading and developing a small pod of engineers. This role is ideal for a pragmatic technical leader who can translate ambiguous needs into production-ready applications, integrations, APIs, and data solutions;

measure business impact; and create reusable engineering patterns for the broader Order Management and enterprise application landscape.

Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. The company does not intend to provide sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B, TN, etc.) for this employment position.

Hybrid:

At Allegion, we’re driven by a bold vision: redefining safety while empowering our employees to thrive. This role follows our hybrid work model—combining in-person collaboration for meaningful moments with the flexibility of remote work. Because hybrid arrangements can vary by team and business needs, your talent acquisition partner will share the specific expectations for this role.

While this is the current structure and we currently have no plans to change, we reserve the right to make changes to the hybrid schedule as needed at the Company’s discretion.

What You Will Do:

Partner directly with business leaders, domain experts, product teams, and end users to identify high-value problems and define measurable outcomes

Lead rapid discovery and technical design, translating ambiguous operational needs into clear solution approaches, prototypes, and delivery plans

Build and deploy production-grade applications, integrations, APIs, and data workflows that meet enterprise architecture and security standards, using AI capabilities when they provide clear business value.

Evaluate and implement automation, analytics, generative AI, and agentic capabilities where appropriate to reduce manual effort, improve decision-making, and streamline exception handling across the order-to-cash process.

Own solutions end to end, from hands-on development and testing through release, observability, adoption, and continuous improvement

Embed with delivery and operational teams to understand real workflows, validate solutions in context, and shorten feedback cycles

Make sound build, buy, configure, and integrate decisions while balancing speed, scalability, maintainability, risk, and user value

Collaborate across architecture, cybersecurity, data, cloud/platform, product, and support teams to remove delivery barriers and operationalize solutions

Establish reusable engineering patterns, reference implementations, integration approaches, and practical standards that accelerate future deployments, including AI-related patterns when applicable.

Define and drive the software engineering strategy for the Order Management…