Sr. Software Engineer

Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security

At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 30 brands, 12,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. Additionally, in 2024 we were awarded the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award, which recognizes the most engaged workplace cultures in the world.

The Sr. Software Engineer on the Digital Manufacturing Team is responsible for defining the tools, processes, and knowledge to enhance the effectiveness of Allegion’s digital product development teams. 

What You Will Do:

• Mentoring other Software Engineers
• Collaborative design and maintenance of standards for development, solution and software architecture
• Advocate for the implementation and utilization of best practices across the group
• Advise product teams on solution and data architectures with a mindset balancing delivery of business objectives with the non-functional requirements of the overall architecture
• Collaborative design of interactions between applications to ensure reliable, fault-tolerant integrations using standard methodologies across the group
• Identify technical and security risk in projects and products and develop strategies to alleviate it
• Communicate technical architecture direction and how it relates to business objectives to all levels of the group through documentation, training, and awareness.
• Deliver technical solutions for projects leveraging agile project management methodologies
• Develop specified application components or enhancements, as needed
• Advocate for security and data privacy of all applications and data storage
• Help to clarify, identify, and ensure hand off of requirements and project issues and escalate appropriately where required
• Support innovation through creative application of tools and methods to software and infrastructure architecture, design, and development
• Analyze existing business processes and software for potential design improvements
• Work with the IT team, business functions, external vendors, and contract resources to deliver project requirements in a timely and cost-effective manner
• Strengthen the relationship between the product, design, security, devops, infrastructure, legal and development teams
• Limited travel is required

What You Need to Succeed:

• Current experience with a modern general purpose object oriented language such as C# or Java and/or experience in a modern JavaScript framework such as Angular or React
• A passion for technology and willingness to explore and adopt new technologies for practical business purposes
• A positive attitude working with an agile team to develop innovative technical solutions built on a secure foundation that enable business growth, more reliable customer interactions, and improved customer satisfaction
• Be apt at understanding new business domains and be creative and thoughtful about applying technology to improve processes and issues
• Ability to quickly build proof-of-concept solutions with an eye to how they could be implemented at scale
• Mentor and share knowledge across the Allegion IT Teams.
• Verbal and written communication, with various team members in roles that are both technical and non-technical particularly to give direction or present business value of various initiatives to teams
• Proactively work to coordinate efforts with employees across the group
• Ability to collaborate with global teams
• Ability to identify issues, generate solutions, and choose appropriate alternatives
• Demonstrated knowledge in software and solution architecture
• Experience designing applications that collectively integrate custom software, cloud architectures and commercial off-the-self software, and possess awareness of the services available and benefits or trade-offs of each
• Experience working in a fast-paced, agile environment while providing consistent application lifecycle management
• Demonstrated knowledge in software development methodologies and best practices, application lifecycle management, and development and automation tooling
• Be self-motivated with good time management skills
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or Information Technology related discipline, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience in the design, development, implementation, and integration of Enterprise applications

Why Work for Us?

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