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Working within the validation organization, this role will define and deliver automation, standardized reporting, data pipelines, portals, dashboards, engineering toolchains, user interfaces, and appropriate AI-enabled capabilities. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering with systems-level architectural thinking and can convert validation needs into secure, reusable, and supportable solutions. Validation teams own validation methods and priorities; this role owns solution architecture, technical direction, and software delivery quality.\nCompany Information\nPACCAR is a Fortune 500 company established in 1905. PACCAR Inc is recognized as a global leader in the commercial vehicle, financial, and customer service fields with internationally recognized brands such as Kenworth, Peterbilt, and DAF trucks. PACCAR is a global technology leader in the design, manufacture and customer support of high-quality light-, medium- and heavy-duty trucks under the Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF nameplates. PACCAR designs and manufactures advanced diesel engines and also provides customized financial services, information technology and truck parts related to its principal business.\nWhether you want to design the transportation technology of tomorrow, support the staff functions of a dynamic, international leader, or build our excellent products and services - you can develop the career you desire with PACCAR. Get started!\nJob Functions / Responsibilities\nAssess validation workflows, data, tools, reporting needs, access constraints, and inefficiencies, then define a phased technical roadmap for shared solutions that reduce manual effort and improve consistency, traceability, and reuse.\nOwn the end-to-end architecture, technical strategy, delivery, adoption, and lifecycle of validation software, data platforms, and automation solutions, setting direction across reporting, data pipelines, portals, services, development toolchains, analytics, user interfaces, and enterprise integrations.\nEvaluate and leverage existing enterprise platforms, shared services, data sources, and APIs before developing new standalone solutions, integrating capabilities across the Microsoft ecosystem and other established PACCAR systems where appropriate.\nLead and contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of production-quality software and data solutions.\nDefine scalable, secure data pipelines and access patterns that connect vehicle, test, measurement, engineering-tool, and business data into governed, traceable, and reusable data products.\nDesign portals, dashboards, analytics applications, reports, and user interfaces that make validation data understandable and actionable through consistent metrics, shared definitions, and standardized reporting methods.\nCreate reusable tools, frameworks, services, data products, and AI-enabled capabilities that become shared validation infrastructure, accelerate engineering delivery, improve decision quality, and reduce duplicated effort across teams.\nEstablish and drive organization-wide adoption of modern engineering practices for architecture and code quality, source control, automated testing, continuous integration and deployment, security, monitoring, documentation, and operational support, removing systemic bottlenecks and raising the standard for software delivery.\nProvide technical leadership across organizational boundaries, influence investment and architectural decisions, mentor and develop engineers, resolve complex cross-system issues, and build durable organizational capability that reduces key-person dependency while aligning solutions with PACCAR architecture, cybersecurity, data-governance, and operational requirements.\n.\nQualifications\nMinimum of 7 years of engineering experience with a minimum of 5 years of software, data, platform, or automation engineering experience, including substantial hands-on development and technical leadership.\nAdvanced recent experience with Python and SQL.\nDemonstrated systems thinking and architectural judgment across software, data, interfaces, users, security, and operations, with experience delivering production software, data pipelines, automation, and user-facing data products.\nExperience integrating existing enterprise systems through APIs, services, databases, or lakehouse platforms, along with source control, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle support.\nExperience creating portals, dashboards, analytics applications, reports, or engineering interfaces with attention to usability and effective data visualization.\nAbility to lead through influence, review technical designs and code, mentor contributors, communicate tradeoffs, and work effectively across validation, engineering, and enterprise teams.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to travel up to 10%.\nExperience with C#/.NET for Microsoft and enterprise-platform integration; TypeScript or JavaScript experience for portal and user-interface development is preferred.\nExperience integrating and extending Microsoft platforms and tools, including Azure, Power Platform, Power BI, Microsoft 365, and related cloud or hybrid services preferred.\nExperience with vehicle, test, measurement, telemetry, calibration, or validation data, and with machine-learning or AI solutions preferred\nEducation\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, data engineering, or a related computing discipline\nPaccar Benefits\nAs a U.S. PACCAR employee, you have a full range of benefit options including:\nCompetitive salary and 401k with up to a 5% company match\nFully funded pension plan that provides monthly benefits after retirement\nComprehensive paid time off - Minimum of 10 paid vacation days, 12 paid holidays, and sick leave\nTuition reimbursement for continued education \nMedical, dental, and vision plans for you and your family \nFlexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings account (HSA)\nPaid short-and long-term disability program\nLife and accidental death and dismemberment insurance\nEAP services including wellness plans, estate planning, financial counseling and more\nGlobal Fortune 500 company with a wide array of growth and development opportunities\nWork alongside experienced goal-oriented colleagues recognized as experts in their field\nAdditional Job Board Information\nPACCAR is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veteran/Disability. At PACCAR, we value talent and promote growth and development. Visa sponsorship or immigration support is not available for this position. Candidates must be currently authorized to work in the United States and able to maintain that authorization throughout their employment without requiring employer sponsorship.We carefully consider numerous compensation factors, including your education, training, or experience. The salary range for “Lead Software Engineer - Validation Solutions, Automation & Analytics ” is $104,100 - $162,900 annually. 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