Lead Software Developer

What you’ll do:

Position Overview:
There is no better time to join Eaton than in this exciting era of power management. We’re reimagining innovation by adapting digital technologies — connected devices, data models and insights — to transform power management for safer and more sustainable and efficient power use. Our teams are collaborating to build the best digital solutions for our customers. We are looking for digital talent who want to help set the direction for this digital transformation and create new ways of working and thinking, for ourselves and our customers.

Eaton’s Energy Automation Solutions division has an opening for a Lead Software Developer to join our Grid Automation Services team, responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting software and customer-specific solutions based on our Substation Automation family of products. This position will be located in our Brossard, Québec office and offers hybrid work opportunities. Candidates should reside within 80km of Brossard.

Eaton is accelerating and leading the industry with its digital offerings to utility customers. In this role, you will play a leading role in our software development team and contribute to the execution of customer-paid development projects. We strive to deliver dependable, simplified, and best-in-class solutions to help utilities leverage their assets and manage a smarter grid.

Essential Responsibilities:

As an individual contributor, participates in all stages of the development cycle: 
•    Analyzes technical specifications and proposes innovative solutions.
•    Designs, implements, and maintains efficient, reliable, and reusable code in various software languages. Reviews peer-written code.
•    Participates in the investigation of problems by gathering enough information to find the root causes and fix them.
•    Produce technical documentation.
•    In support tasks and occasionally, may develops and documents verification test plans, writes unit tests and automated integration tests, performs manual testing, and writes reports.

As a leader in software development:
•    Strong collaboration with the customer and internal product team for gathering requirement and transforming them in generic features that will be integrated in our family of product or solutions and that will be reusable by other customers.
•    Contribute to the development of project specifications and planning (provide input to project planning by estimates of development activities...).
•    Lead system architectures and designs in collaboration with technical experts.
•    Collaborate with multiple teams across EATON for alignment.
•    Contributes to build a culture of code sharing, inner-sourcing, and reusable platform components.
•    Contributes to the growth of the team, with technical coaching of junior developers and supervision of contractors that help dealing with variations of the workload.
•    Influences the team to align them on consistent SDLC process, tools, and metrics.
•    Has the ability to collaborate with geographically dispersed teams.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
•    Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or any other relevant program from an accredited institution.
•    10+ years of experience in software development, including 2+ years of recent experience developing C++ applications.
•    5+ years of experience with software architecture design.
•    Understanding of object-oriented design and programming skills, including the use of design patterns.
•    Experience communicating and supporting external customers.
•    Experience leading and coaching new and experienced software developers.
•    Fluency in English and French (working proficiency).Fluency in French and English is required for this position to communicate with colleagues, customers, and partners located inside and outside of Quebec, as well as to understand technical documentation in the field of our industry. 
•    Must be legally authorized to work in Canada without corporate sponsorship now or in the future. 
•    Candidates must live within 80 kilometers of Brossard, Québec

Preferred Qualifications:
•    Experience developing software for embedded devices (multithreading), creating APIs and desktop applications.

•    Experience with software requirement management.
•    Abreast of upcoming software development/engineering tools, trends, and methodologies.
•    Full understanding of key computer science concepts (Data Structures, Algorithms, etc.).
•    Comprehensive knowledge of IP networking protocols (TCP/UDP/IP).
•    Experience with Industrial IP protocols: Modbus TCP, DNP3, OPC-UA, etc. 
•    Experience working in the electric utility market and/or power system knowledge.
•    Teamwork, communication, strong interpersonal skills across cultural and organizational boundaries.
•    Strong problem-solving and reasoning ability, exhibiting technical innovation and creative solutions.
•    Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills
•    Experience working with global teams.
•    Experience ensuring cybersecurity practices in embedded software and desktop applications. 
•    Experience with Agile Development Processes, and working in an Agile team environment, using SCRUM or any other framework.