Sr.Engineer Color Components

About the Role

The Sr. Engineer – Color Components will be the senior technical owner of a portfolio of reusable software components used across AkzoNobel's internal and customer-facing Color Technology applications.

The person will:

• Develop and maintain reusable .NET libraries, NuGet packages, APIs and services.
• Ensure components are scalable, modular, well-documented, versioned and production-ready.
• Provide senior technical leadership and mentorship to engineers.
• Own the technical approach, architecture, quality and lifecycle of the component portfolio.
• Work closely with the Product Owner, R&D, QA and internal/external engineering teams.
• Act as the Technical Application Manager (TAM) for the Scrum team.
• Drive engineering standards, CI/CD, testing, security, release management and technical-debt reduction

AkzoNobel's Technology Integration Team develops and productizes reusable Color Technology Components that power internal and customer-facing applications across the global paints and coatings business.

We are looking for a Sr. Engineer – Color Components who will be responsible for the technical delivery, architecture, quality and lifecycle management of a portfolio of reusable software components, including .NET libraries/NuGet packages, APIs, services and supporting utilities.

This is a senior individual contributor and technical leadership role requiring strong hands-on software engineering experience along with the ability to mentor engineers and drive engineering standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the technical delivery and lifecycle of reusable software components.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to software engineers.
• Conduct code reviews, design reviews and technical planning.
• Define and enforce standards for coding, testing, documentation and CI/CD.
• Design and maintain APIs, services and reusable .NET components.
• Manage component versioning, backward compatibility, dependencies and release lifecycle.
• Drive technical-debt remediation, dependency upgrades and security improvements.
• Partner with Product Owners to translate requirements into technically implementable solutions.
• Lead technical delivery for mid-sized projects.
• Ensure appropriate unit, integration, contract and regression testing.
• Drive release readiness, documentation and operational readiness.
• Support production issues, incident triage and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with R&D teams to translate scientific/domain requirements into engineering specifications.
• Work with internal and external engineering teams in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Act as the Technical Application Manager (TAM) for the Scrum team.

Required Skills

Must Have:

• 8–10+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong C# / .NET / .NET Core
• API / Service Design
• NuGet packaging
• Reusable software component/library development
• Dependency management
• Versioning and backward compatibility
• CI/CD pipelines
• Automated testing
• Unit / Integration / Contract / Regression testing
• Agile / Scrum
• Technical leadership and mentoring
• Code and design reviews
• Software architecture and design

Good to Have:

• Azure
• SQL integration
• Microservices
• Security/dependency management
• Logging, metrics and tracing
• Production support / RCA
• Color Science / scientific computing exposure

Candidate Profile

We are looking for a hands-on senior software engineer/technical lead who has experience building and owning reusable software components, libraries, APIs or services.

The candidate should be comfortable taking technical ownership, making design decisions, mentoring engineers and ensuring that software components are scalable, maintainable, secure and production-ready.

Prior Color Science or Paints & Coatings experience is not mandatory.