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With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.\nWe welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!\nJob Description\nAs a Team Lead - Software Technology, you will provide hands-on technical leadership for teams designing, developing, testing, and delivering scalable enterprise software solutions. You will guide architecture and engineering practices, mentor software engineers, and drive responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering, including agentic AI and Microsoft Copilot capabilities. You will report to the Engineering Manager and work on a hybrid schedule in Pune/Noida, India.\nYour Responsibilities:\nProvide technical leadership across the software development lifecycle, including solution design, development, testing, implementation, maintenance, and support.\nLead architectural and technical design discussions to deliver scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable enterprise software solutions.\nDrive practical adoption of AI-assisted software engineering, including Microsoft Copilot and agentic AI solutions, to improve development productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and engineering workflows.\nIdentify, prototype, and scale AI use cases using Python, APIs, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and autonomous or multi-agent workflow patterns while applying appropriate security, privacy, human oversight, and responsible AI controls.\nGuide Agile execution through PI Planning, Sprint Planning, backlog refinement, task breakdown, effort estimation, risk identification, and delivery commitments.\nReview requirements, technical designs, code, test cases, and user documentation to ensure adherence to engineering standards and quality practices.\nMentor engineers on modern software practices and effective, responsible use of AI coding assistants and automation tools.\nCollaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Architects, Engineering Managers, QA, UX, DevOps, data, AI, and global development teams to achieve product and program objectives.\nLead troubleshooting, debugging, integration, and resolution of complex technical issues across systems and subsystems.\nThe Essentials - You Will Have:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.\n10+ years of experience in software development, software design, and enterprise application development.\n3+ years of experience in a Technical Lead, Team Lead, or comparable technical leadership role.\n5+ years of experience conducting design reviews, code reviews, and technical assessments.\nMandatory hands-on Python experience for automation, data processing, API integration, prototyping, or AI-enabled application development.\nMandatory practical experience using enterprise generative AI and coding-assistant tools such as Microsoft Copilot or GitHub Copilot in software engineering workflows.\nDemonstrated understanding of agentic AI concepts, including tool use, orchestration, planning, memory, human-in-the-loop controls, evaluation, and safe deployment of AI agents.\nWorking knowledge of large language models, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings or vector search, and integration of AI services through APIs.\nAbility to apply responsible AI, cybersecurity, data privacy, intellectual-property, and model-risk controls when using AI-generated code or AI-enabled solutions.\nStrong experience in software architecture, object-oriented design, system integration, debugging, and enterprise application development.\nExperience leading Agile software development teams and participating in SAFe or a similar scaled Agile framework.\nThe ability to travel up to 10% of the time.\nThe Preferred - You Might Also Have:\nExperience designing or implementing agentic or multi-agent solutions using frameworks such as Microsoft Semantic Kernel, Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, LangChain, or AutoGen.\nExperience building AI-enabled applications on Microsoft Azure, including Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Search, Microsoft Fabric, or related data and AI services.\nExperience defining AI evaluation criteria, guardrails, observability, cost controls, and adoption metrics for enterprise use cases.\nStrong expertise in Java, object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and enterprise application design patterns.\nExperience with modern UI/UX technologies and enterprise user interface development.\nExperience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, containerization, virtualization, and modern software delivery approaches.\nKnowledge of test automation strategies and development practices such as TDD and BDD.\nExperience in manufacturing, industrial automation, MES, or consumer products industries.\nDemonstrated success influencing technical direction, driving engineering excellence, and developing high-performing engineering teams.\nWhat We Offer:\nOur benefits package includes ...\nComprehensive mindfulness programs with a premium membership to Calm.\nVolunteer Paid Time Off available after 6 months of employment for eligible employees.\nCompany volunteer and donation matching program.\nEmployee Assistance Program.\nPersonalized wellbeing programs through our OnTrack program.\nOn-demand digital course library for professional development.\n... and other local benefits!\nAt Rockwell Automation, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply. 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