If you desire to be part of something special, to be part of a winning team, to be part of a fun team, winning is fun. Eaton's Electrical Engineering Services & Systems division is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for its Advanced Distribution Planning System (ADPS) platform, based in Pune, India. At Eaton, we are committed to making work exciting, engaging, and meaningful while fostering a culture of safety, wellness, inclusion, and diversity.
As part of a multidisciplinary development team, the Lead Software Engineer will lead the design, development, and evolution of the next generation of Eaton’s cloud-native ADPS platform used for the analysis and modeling of electricity distribution networks and renewable energy systems.
We are looking for a highly motivated Lead Software Engineer with strong expertise in C#, .NET, Azure Cloud, microservices, and SaaS platform development. The role requires a strong technical leader who can drive architecture-level decisions while remaining hands-on in the design and implementation of scalable, secure, reliable, and high-performance platform solutions. The ideal candidate will demonstrate architectural thinking, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and a passion for mentoring engineers, driving engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and innovation across the software development lifecycle.
• Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of core ADPS platform services using modern C# and .NET.
• Lead the design and development of cloud-native ADPS solutions leveraging C++, .NET, Azure, and AKS technologies.
• Drive end-to-end solution delivery, including platform architecture, backend services, engine integration, performance optimization, and scalable cloud deployment.
• Analyze product requirements, technical specifications, and engineering use cases to define scalable and secure solutions.
• Own the technical direction of assigned platform components, services, and integration interfaces.
• Design reusable frameworks, shared services, common platform capabilities, and well-defined application programming interfaces.
• Drive architecture discussions, technical design reviews, and engineering decisions across product teams.
• Design distributed, cloud-native, and multi-tenant solutions with appropriate resiliency, security, observability, and performance.
• Remain hands-on by developing critical components, resolving complex technical issues, and creating technical prototypes.
• Review pull requests and ensure adherence to coding standards, design patterns, SOLID principles, and secure development practices.
• Define and improve unit testing, code coverage, automated quality checks, and continuous integration and delivery practices.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management, User Interface, Engine, Quality Assurance, DevOps, cybersecurity, and architecture teams.
• Support effort estimation, release planning, dependency management, technical risk assessment, and delivery execution.
• Improve platform scalability, reliability, maintainability, deployment efficiency, monitoring, and troubleshooting capabilities.
• Drive platform modernization, cloud adoption, performance optimization, technical-debt reduction, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and development tools, including artificial intelligence-assisted engineering solutions.
• Mentor and coach engineers, promote knowledge sharing, and foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and technical excellence.
• Prepare and maintain architecture decisions, design specifications, interface documentation, deployment guidance, and operational documentation.
Experience:
• 8-12 years of software development experience.
• 2+ years of experience leading technical teams or serving as a Technical Lead or Lead Engineer.
• Strong hands-on experience in modern C# and .NET or .NET Core, C++ application development.
• Experience building enterprise-scale cloud-native applications and software platforms.
• Experience designing distributed, scalable, secure, and highly available systems.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, microservices, REST-based services, and relational databases.
• Experience with containerization, continuous integration and delivery, source control, and modern DevOps practices.
• Strong experience working in Agile or Scrum software development environments.
• Utility, energy, engineering analytics, geographic information systems, or a similar domain is preferred.
Required:
• C#, .NET or .NET Core, ASP.NET Web APIs, REST APIs, and Entity Framework.
• Microsoft Azure and cloud-native application design.
• Microservices architecture, distributed systems, design patterns, and SOLID principles.
• SQL Server or PostgreSQL, data modeling, query optimization, and caching strategies.
• Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps or GitHub, and continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
• Application security, authentication and authorization, secure coding, and vulnerability remediation.
• Automated unit testing, code quality practices, logging, monitoring, observability, and performance troubleshooting.
Preferred:
• Event-driven architecture, Domain-Driven Design, and asynchronous processing patterns.
• Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, RabbitMQ, or Kafka.
• Redis caching, GraphQL, and application programming interface versioning.
• Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code technologies.
• Software as a Service and multi-tenant platform architecture.
• Utility domain knowledge and exposure to CYME or ADPS solutions.
• Strong technical leadership, architectural thinking, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and structured problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to mentor engineers, provide constructive technical guidance, and influence without direct authority.
• Ability to balance near-term business priorities with long-term platform sustainability.
• Strong ownership, accountability, execution focus, and attention to software quality.
• Effective prioritization, planning, risk management, and time management.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with global and cross-functional teams.
Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to improving the quality of life and protecting the environment for people everywhere. We are guided by our commitment to do business right, to operate sustainably and to help our customers manage power ─ today and well into the future. By capitalizing on the global growth trends of electrification and digitalization, we’re accelerating the planet’s transition to renewable energy and helping to solve the world’s most urgent power management challenges.
Eaton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Eaton is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
