Senior Staff Engineer

Velotic™ is a leading independent industrial software company providing data-driven solutions that improve manufacturing efficiency, productivity, and operational insight. Serving customers across manufacturing, oil & gas, utilities, and infrastructure, the company generates more than $300 million in revenue. Velotic’s portfolio, anchored by Proficy, Kepware, and ThingWorx, supports the growing data and performance requirements of industrial operators globally, with an emphasis on AI-enabled manufacturing and industrial software.

With a deeply embedded global installed base across discrete and process manufacturing, Velotic enables customers to securely connect machines, systems, and people; modernize legacy operations; and drive measurable improvements in productivity, quality, and uptime. Our platform spans industrial connectivity, MES/MOM, rapid application development, analytics, and AI-driven optimization-serving as the digital backbone of the modern factory.

The IIoT solutions serve as a strategic bridge between the factory floor and the enterprise, transforming fragmented industrial data into a cohesive, high-fidelity foundation for AI-driven decision-making. By orchestrating complex data flows across diverse protocols and securing the journey from the edge to the cloud, Velotic enables organizations to build a scalable digital infrastructure that goes beyond simple cost-cutting. Ultimately, these capabilities drive operational resilience and long-term value creation by eliminating systemic inefficiencies and providing the real-time visibility necessary to thrive in a data-centric industrial landscape.

We are building a next-generation channel organization and are seeking experienced Channel Account Managers who can operate as trusted advisors to partners and large industrial customers, and drive long-term, platform-oriented growth through the partner ecosystem

This position owns the architecture and the implementation. You will design, code, and operate AWS platforms and services at scale, partnering closely with product and security teams. Has the vision to integrate it across multiple systems. This position works independently and is seen as a technical leader. The position is responsible for driving the design and development efforts related to architecture, scalability, availability and performance in alignment with the product/application roadmap.

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for providing technical leadership and defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development m and infrastructure
• Provide guidance to developers with either planning and execution and/or design architecture using agile methodologies such as SCRUM
• Work with Product Line Leaders (PLLs) to understand product requirements & vision
• Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse
• Capture system level requirements by brainstorming with CTO, Sr. Architects, Data Scientists, Businesses & Product Managers
• Leads impact assessment and decision related to technology choices, design /architectural considerations and implementation strategy.
• Subject matter expert in processes and methodologies with ability to adapt and improvise in various situations. Expert in navigating through ambiguity and prioritizing conflicting asks.
• Expert level skills in design, architecture and development, with an ability to take a deep dive in the implementation aspects if the situation demands.
• Leads the architecture and design efforts across the product / multiple product versions and is an expert in architecting custom solutions off the base product.
• Expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and has the ability to implement them using language of choice when necessary - as a value offering.

Education Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with 14+ years of experience.

Technical Expertise:

• 10+ years hands-on AWS (you’ve built and run things at scale).
• Strong knowledge of OOD/OOP software design patterns and principles
• Strong C/C++, Python, Golang and Data structure skills
• Experience working in building scalable enterprise applications on Linux Platform
• Experience in building container platforms (EKS/ECS/Fargate), implement service mesh/ingress, and wire CI/CD for microservices and serverless (Lambda).
• Deep experience with: EC2, ALB/NLB, Auto Scaling, VPC/Peering/TGW, Route 53, S3, EBS/EFS, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda, EventBridge/SQS/SNS, ECR, EKS/ECS/Fargate
• Strong networking experience: CIDR, routing, NAT, Security Groups vs NACLs, PrivateLink, VPC endpoints, DNS.
• Experience in CI/CD with CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI; artifact/versioning best practices.
• Experience in CloudWatch (metrics/logs/alarms), OpenTelemetry/X-Ray, log aggregation (Kinesis/Firehose/CloudWatch Logs/Lambda to SIEM)
• Experience of working on Multi-threaded applications is a must.
• Experience in using Gen AI tools like Claude and Copilot
• Facilitates and coaches software engineering team sessions on requirements estimation and alternative approaches to team sizing and estimation. Leads a community of practice around estimation to share best practices among teams
• Drives accountability and adoption. Publishes guidance and documentation to promote adoption of design. Proposes design solutions based on research and synthesis; creates general design principles that capture the vision and critical concerns for a program.
• Demonstrates mastery of the intricacies of interactions and dynamics in Agile teams. Guides new teams to adopt Agile, troubleshoots adoption efforts, and guide continuous improvement. Provides training on Lean / Agile. Drives elimination of inefficiencies in coding process. Teaches XP practices to others. Actively embraces new methods and practices that increase efficiency and effectiveness.

Business Acumen:

• Evaluates technology to drive features and roadmaps. Maps technology trends to internal vision. Differentiates buzzwords from value proposition. Embraces technology trends that drive excellence beyond traditional practices (e.g., Test automation in lieu of traditional QA practices).
• Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders. Recommends a well-researched recommendation of buy vs. build solution. Conveys the value proposition for the company by assessing financial risks and gains of decisions and return on investment (ROI). Manages the process of building and maintaining a successful alliance. Understands and successfully applies common analytical techniques, including ROI, SWOT, and Gap analyses. Able to clearly articulate the business drivers relevant to a given initiative.

Leadership:

• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome. Uses experts or other third parties to influence.
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making. Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team. Able to navigate accountability in a matrixed organization. Communicates and demonstrates a shared sense of purpose. Learns from failure.

Personal Attributes:

• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to the company. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

Learn more at: www.velotic.com