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The Director Software Product Development leads the software engineering team that builds our next generation Warehouse Optimization Suite. This role requires hands on management and direction of the product team, while working hand-in-hand with product management, data science, and customer engineering teams.

We are seeking a well-rounded, passionate engineering leader with an entrepreneurial drive and who is up-to-date with technology and software development best practices. The ideal candidate will have a commercial mindset and experience leading a team developing software for external sale. This position reports to the Chief Technology Officer.

Responsibilities

• Continuously improve and be an advocate for a high-quality software development process which improves cycle times, code quality, and consistency of delivery.
• Own agreed product roadmap commitments, staffing assignments, and resource estimates and be the voice of product engineering to senior leadership.
• Be a hands-on player leading oversight of the development process including establishing technical feasibility of product requirements, conducting design reviews, code reviews, etc.
• Have a commercial mindset in vetting architecture and guiding the design approach to ensure quality, maintainability, scalability, performance and usability.
• Mentor team member development both in technical and in leadership skills to help team members grow their careers and sustain a strong product development capability for Lucas.
• Develop relationships with customers and prospects to learn about their business challenges in support of on-going and future revenue opportunities.

Skills and Experience

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• Experience within a software or tech company that sells products to external customers
• 10+ years of related software development experience, with 5 years in team leadership roles
• Mastery of significant portions of our technology stack including: OO programming languages (ideally .NET and Entity Framework), SQL databases (ideally SQL Server and MySQL), Angular (or any modern browser-based framework), no-SQL databases, Spring, Hibernate, JSON, XML, and HTML(5).
• Experience with micro-services architecture and distributed messaging-based design patterns
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to lead and develop teams
• Has an agile mindset, works well under deadlines, is self-motivated, and is driven by results
• Experience in building applications for the cloud or migrating applications to the cloud is a plus
• Understanding of the supply chain or distribution domain is a plus

If you are passionate about data and thoughtful to a fault about creating structure designed to scale, organize, optimize, retrieve and translate robust quantities of data for actionable insights, then this opportunity is perfect for you.

You will work closely with product development to understand business logic requirements and data flows and ensure applications are built with flexibility and extensibility (including for adaptation in the cloud) in mind. And, you will help to influence overarching data strategy.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop end to end scalable data applications and data pipelines
• Collaborate with new product development team to continuously look for ways to improve and enhance data reliability and performance (caching, indexing, etc…).
• Lead the development of data quality tools, frameworks, and processes to ensure accuracy, quality, completeness, and consistency of data.
• Become an expert on system architecture, functionality, and data flows as well as operations, processes and tools. Leverage business and application knowledge to create flexible and robust data solutions.
• Develop complex queries and scripts for business logic implementation using Microsoft SQL Server, Python, and .NET (Entity Framework).
• Streamline and provide escalation support for existing customer database implementations.
• Influence the overarching data strategy and vision for data pipelines and data products.
• Oversee and govern the expansion of existing data architecture and the optimization of data query performance via best practices.

Skills and Experience

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices
• Experience with both traditional relational databases (MS SQL required) as well as cloud-based offerings (such as Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, and/or Snowflake)
• Experience leading and owning projects in a technical environment, enabling teams during the software development lifecycle
• Ideally 5 to 7 years of related experience designing data intensive applications, data engineering, and/or as a DBA
• Experience with real time or near real time data ingestion and analysis technologies
• Programming experience with .NET (C#), Python, Java, or Scala
• Comfort with NoSQL databases
• Has an agile mindset, works well under deadlines, is self-motivated, and is driven by results
• Experience in building applications for the cloud or migrating applications to the cloud
• Understanding of the supply chain or distribution domain is a plus
• Experience with modern microservice architecture (RabbitMQ) is a plus

Are you an engineer who has strong development skills, embraces change and is interested in finding better ways to deliver quality software?

As a DevOps Engineer at Lucas Systems, you will be an integral part of a dynamic, intelligent, and high-performing team of engineers who work closely together to deliver world-class mobile work applications to businesses ranging from Fortune 50 companies to single-site distributors. Our customers are at the heart of everything we do at Lucas!

What You Will Do:

This position is responsible for setting up and maintaining a build, deploy, and test pipeline for all Lucas applications. The pipeline would setup a test environment, deploy application(s) for testing, execute the automated regression and performance tests then report results.

• Create automation to deploy and test critical micro service and n-tier application architectures
• Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
• Support and work alongside a cross-functional engineering team on the latest technologies
• Work with QA and Dev on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of deployments
• Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the engineering team

What You Will Need:

•B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
•Practical experience with a Version control system experience (e.g. Git)
•Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, TravisCI, TeamCity)
•Demonstrated proficiency with scripting languages like Python, PowerShell
•Experience with Azure or AWS and knowledge of Docker containerization and clustering (Kubernetes) is preferred
•Effective communication skills
•Be very cool to work with…like the rest of our team!

If you’ve been working in the C# (.NET) ecosystem for at least 4 years, and you enjoy the excitement and responsibility of being part of a team that builds a commercial software product from the ground up, then Lucas Systems, Inc. has a great opportunity for you!

If you write clean, testable, elegant code while embracing the principles of Agile software design and DevOps, then we should talk. If you love new UI technology or mobile platforms, not because “everyone is doing it” but because it is based on rock-solid software design principles, then we think alike!

As part of the Product Development team, you will design and develop the next generation of Lucas’ software products and explore cutting edge technologies as part of ongoing R&D to expand the Lucas platform.

• Work with cross-functional team members to understand the functional and technical product requirements.
• Document and articulate the proposed design/implementation.
• Design and implement major functional components.

Position Responsibilities

The successful candidate will have experience that meets most of the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field with 5+ years of total experience.
• Minimum 4 years of C# software development with a team that built a commercial software product. (Combination of C#/Java/C++ with a desire to learn quickly also welcome)
• Hands on experience with Distributed Systems, Microservice-based architectures and building RESTful Web Services. Familiarity with Domain Driven Design is a plus.
• DevOps mentality. Experience with build/deploy tools.
• Dedicated mindset for automated testing and performance testing
• Hands on experience with relational database technologies like MySQL, Oracle, or MS SQL Server. Bonus points for Entity Framework.
• Familiarity with open source frameworks for DI, ORM, MVC/MVVM
• Understanding of modern browser-based JavaScript frameworks such as Angular (preferred), Backbone, Ember, React, or Knockout
• Bootstrap, HTML5 and CSS3
• Exposure to an Agile development environment
• Experience architecting and designing new features

• Bonus experience: Python, ELK, Machine Learning, Cloud, Agile

If you’ve been working in the C# (.NET) ecosystem for at least 7 years, and you enjoy the excitement and responsibility of being part of a team that builds a commercial software product from the ground up, then Lucas Systems, Inc. has a great opportunity for you!

If you write clean, testable, elegant code while embracing the principles of Agile software design and DevOps, then we should talk. If you love new UI technology or mobile platforms, not because “everyone is doing it” but because it is based on rock-solid software design principles, then we think alike!

As part of the Product Development team, you will design and develop the next generation of Lucas’ software products and explore cutting edge technologies as part of ongoing R&D to expand the Lucas platform.

• Work with cross-functional team members to understand the functional and technical product requirements.
• Document and articulate the proposed design/implementation.
• Design and implement major functional components.

Position Responsibilities

The successful candidate will have experience that meets most of the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field with 10+ years of total experience.
• Minimum 7 years of C# software development with a team that built a commercial software product. (Combination of C#/Java/C++ with a desire to learn quickly also welcome)
• Hands on experience with Distributed Systems, Microservice-based architectures and building RESTful Web Services. Familiarity with Domain Driven Design is a plus.
• DevOps mentality. Experience with build/deploy tools.
• Dedicated mindset for automated testing and performance testing
• Hands on experience with relational database technologies like MySQL, Oracle, or MS SQL Server. Bonus points for Entity Framework.
• Familiarity with open source frameworks for DI, ORM, MVC/MVVM
• Understanding of modern browser-based JavaScript frameworks such as Angular (preferred), Backbone, Ember, React, or Knockout
• Bootstrap, HTML5 and CSS3
• Exposure to an Agile development environment
• Experience architecting and designing new features

• Bonus experience: Python, ELK, Machine Learning, Cloud, Agile

Lucas Systems helps companies transform their distribution center operations and continuously adapt to changing market dynamics. We dramatically increase worker productivity, operational agility, accuracy, and reduce the need for labor. Lucas solutions are built on 23-plus years of deep process expertise and smart software using AI-based optimization technologies. Our solutions feature Jennifer, the brain, voice, and orchestration engine that drives performance improvement gains. We help customers make the smartest moves at the lowest cost with Jennifer.

Founded in 1998, Lucas is a growing and consistently profitable organization with an expanding global customer base and offices in North America and Europe. We offer a dynamic, collaborative, innovative and entrepreneurial work environment that continues to create opportunities for both personal and professional growth for high-performing individuals throughout the United States and Europe.

Our culture has been as carefully managed as our growth and our products. We believe in what we do, as much as we believe in each other. We believe in rewarding great thinking and initiative. We attract high-quality people who like to work hard, and they stay with us for many years.

Position Summary

The Senior Software Product Manager drives the product roadmap for Lucas Systems by gathering customer input; tracking market trends; working with Sales team members to understand key market dynamics, challenges and opportunities; and working with Engineering to ensure product viability and on-time delivery. The Senior Software Product Manager serves in a strategic as well as a hands-on tactical role with product direction responsibility for the entire product life cycle from product conception, through development, market introduction, support and end of life.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and own the Lucas product portfolio roadmap in support of Lucas growth objectives. Work across key stakeholders internally and externally to prioritize product development work as the business evolves.
• Develop a strong Voice of the Customer (VOC) network and process to guide Lucas decisions on product and service requirements, competitive differentiation, bundling, pricing, value proposition, and messaging.
• Lead the assessment and business case for new product and service opportunities especially in the area of Machine Learning and AI, to expand Lucas differentiation and opportunities for business growth.
• Experience with rich-client mobile application development targeting Android
• Own the preparation and launch plans for product rollouts including product go-to-market materials, Sales and Marketing enablement, and readiness of customer support.
• Support go-to-market activities such as webinars, digital campaigns, and tradeshows with content development, presentations, and thought leadership.
• Develop relationships with customers and prospects to learn about their business challenges in support of on-going and future revenue opportunities.

Skills and Expertise:

• BA/BS required. Technical degree preferred. MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of experience with software, SaaS, or technology consulting companies
• 5+ years of product management experience
• Knowledge of supply chain domain – warehousing, logistics, transportation preferred
• Entrepreneurial and flexible mindset. Proven ability to think strategically and commercially.
• Ability to guide, mentor, lead and motivate cross-functional teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including presentation and active listening skills.
• Results-driven, self-starter with strong organizational skills.
• Ability to travel less than 20%

Seasoned pros, as well as candidates meeting the minimum qualifications below, will be considered for our growing team

Would you like to collaborate with some of the brightest, most talented software engineers in Pittsburgh AND make a recognizable impact in a profitable, established and growing software solutions company? As a member of the Lucas Project Engineering Team, you could be doing just that!

At Lucas, you will be responsible for: designing, developing, documenting, and supporting major components of the next generation of Lucas’ software products. Technologies include software that runs on a variety of leading-edge mobile devices from Zebra, Bluebird, Unitech, Samsung, Etc.

The skilled Software Engineer will be involved, at varying degrees, in the following:

• Designing and developing software using MS Visual Studio and C#;
• Designing and developing database components and software modules for Lucas’ software products;
• Extending MS Windows services, IIS, and multi-threaded server and mobile client applications;
• Designing and developing host interfaces using various transfer methods (e.g., socket, XML, FTP, etc.);
• Debugging and tuning of applications using Visual Studio, Profiler, and various in-house tools;
• Assisting Lucas’ software services/support team with troubleshooting and developing fixes and enhancements for existing client deployments.

At the Senior Level:

• Working with Lucas Project Managers and customers to gather requirements as well as Product Managers to build a stronger product offering.
• Working directly with Lucas’ customers to gather requirements and design functional specifications to provide unique solutions that increase efficiency and solve operational challenges;
• Serving sometimes as the technical lead for customer projects, supervising other engineers to meet both internal and external expectations;
• Developing architecture diagrams and software specifications;
• Assisting in the creation of system specifications, systems installations and customer training;
• Coordinating and conducting user testing and training;
• Developing prototypes for R&D evaluation; and
• Evaluating new software tools.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline together with related practical software engineering experience is required.
• Object-oriented programming (preferably C#.NET) and database skills (preferably SQL Server).
• Experience with Visual Studio, MVC, Angular, Message Queues, and Mobile Applications preferred.
• Commitment to producing high quality, well-designed and flexible applications.
Solid troubleshooting, analytical, and organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Dedication to collaborative working style and desire to learn and adopt new technologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to travel occasionally (up to 15% applicable for Tech Leads; not applicable for all Software Engineering roles though some travel expected for all).

Additional Valued Experience:

• Experience with Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) or other supply chain software solutions; systems that include mobile devices; Android development; microservices based software.

• Debug and analyze complex issues in existing software, providing timely and effective resolution (e.g., database and code maintenance, hardware issues such as printers, wireless accessories, smartphones, tablets and ruggedized handheld devices).
• Manage customer relationships through regular communication.
• Have the opportunity to design, develop and manage software enhancement projects; configure and maintain development/test environments; assist QA with integration and regression testing.
• Work closely with other teams through all aspects of the Client Project lifecycle.
• Serve as an after-hours technical resource on emergency production system issues.

• Associate or Bachelor Degree in Comp Science or related area of study, or relevant certifications with equivalent experience
• Knowledge of Microsoft Operating Systems and practical work experience or internships with C#.NET (or other OOP languages); Angular 6+ experience a bonus
• Good understanding of relational databases, preferably SQL Server
• Excellent communication skills; Able to convey complex technical subject matter to both high-level IT personnel and less technical end users
• Strong problem solving skills with an innate curiosity to get to root cause
• Ability to work largely independently in a fast-paced environment and work a rotating on-call schedule (paid On-Call – able to be done from home)
• Not required, but Bilingual (fluent Spanish/English) is a plus.

Lucas Systems, conveniently located at The Columbia Centre in Bracknell across the street from train and bus stations and a 5-minute walk from the new Lexicon centre, is looking to expand its global team. Seasoned pros, as well as mid-level candidates meeting the minimum qualifications below, will be considered for our growing team.

Would you like to immerse yourself in an environment working amongst a team of bright and talented software engineers, creating high quality solutions in a well-established and continually growing software company? As a member of the Lucas Project Engineering Team, you could be doing just that!

At Lucas, you will be responsible for: designing, developing, documenting, and supporting major components of customer project implementations as well as the next generation of Lucas’ software products. Technologies include software that runs on a variety of leading-edge mobile devices from Zebra, Bluebird, Unitech, Samsung, Etc.

Challenging work that will keep you interested:

The skilled Software Engineer will be involved, at varying degrees, in the following:

• Designing and developing software using MS Visual Studio, C#, .NET and UI technologies such Angular and HTML5;
• Designing and developing database components and software modules for Lucas’ software products;
• Extending MS Windows services, IIS, and multi-threaded server and mobile client applications;
• Designing and developing host interfaces using various transfer methods (e.g., socket, XML, FTP, JSON etc.);
• Debugging and tuning of applications using Visual Studio, Profiler, and various in-house tools;
• Assisting Lucas’ software services/support team with troubleshooting and developing fixes and enhancements for existing client deployments

At the Senior level:

• Working with Lucas Project Managers and customers to gather requirements as well as Product Managers to build a stronger product offering; working directly with Lucas’ customers to gather requirements and design functional specifications to provide unique solutions that increase efficiency and solve operational challenges;
• Serving sometimes as the technical lead for customer projects, supervising other engineers to meet both internal and external expectations;
• Developing architecture diagrams and software specifications;
• Assisting in the creation of system specifications, systems installations and customer training;
• Coordinating and conducting user testing and training;
• Developing prototypes for R&D evaluation; and
• Evaluating new software tools.

What skills you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline together with a minimum of 3+ years of related practical software engineering experience is required.
• Object-oriented programming (preferably C#.NET) and database skills (preferably SQL Server).
• Experience with Visual Studio, MVC, Angular, Message Queues, and Mobile Applications preferred.
• Commitment to producing high quality, well-designed and flexible applications.
• Solid troubleshooting, analytical, and organisational skills with attention to detail.
• Dedication to collaborative working style and desire to learn and adopt new technologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to travel occasionally (up to 15% applicable for Tech Leads).

Additional valued experience:

Experience with Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) or other supply chain software solutions; systems that include mobile devices; Android development; microservices based software.

We are currently looking for a Software Engineer to serve as a key part of our Mobile Technologies Team.  The Mobile Technologies Team is responsible for the delivery of Lucas’s core client software that runs on a variety of leading edge mobile devices from Zebra, Samsung and others, the evaluation and certification of hardware used with our Mobile Work Execution solutions, and technology research activities.

Position Responsibilities:

• Design and implement software for Lucas Mobile Work Execution solutions, particularly the software that runs on Android-based smartphones

• Research state-of-the-art hardware and technologies which can be leveraged in Lucas solutions, and develop proof-of-concepts and business cases around them

• Evaluate and integrate 3^rd party hardware (i.e., smartphones, mobile computers, smart watches, barcode scanners, headsets, etc.) for use in Lucas solutions

• Evaluate and integrate 3^rd party software (terminal emulation, mobile device management, libraries for specific functionality, etc.) for use in Lucas solutions

• Assist in the creation and ongoing updates of Lucas’s product and R&D roadmaps

• Provide assistance to Lucas’ customer support team in troubleshooting and developing fixes/enhancements for existing customer deployments

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (significant and relevant work experience coupled with a differing degree will be considered)

• 2+ years of industry experience

• Working knowledge of C/C++ and either C# or Java

• Experience with rich-client mobile application development targeting Android or iOS devices

• A passion for innovation and desire/commitment to drive ideas to solutions that solve real-world problems

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Effective organizational skills and ability to be attentive to details

Preferred Qualifications:

• Speech recognition and speech synthesis (TTS) research or development experience (speech recognition accuracy evaluations, use of APIs and/or tuning of speech recognition systems like CMU SPHINX and Nuance VoCon 3200 and Cerence VoCon Hybrid, etc.)

• Experience with cross platform mobile app development with Xamarin

• Experience with one or more of the following technologies: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, RFID, NFC, vision, augmented reality

• Working knowledge of one or more SQL or NoSQL databases

• Exposure to warehouse logistics processes

Are you an engineer who has strong development skills, embraces change and is interested in finding better ways to deliver quality software? Do you enjoy scripting tasks for automated testing purposes? If so, this quality assurance role with an emphasis on automation is ideal for you!

Our QA team utilizes state of the art testing practices and pushes the envelope on what is possible. Our customers are at the heart of everything we do at Lucas!

As a Software Engineer in Test at Lucas Systems, you will be an integral part of a dynamic, intelligent, and high-performing team of engineers who work closely together to deliver world-class mobile work applications to businesses ranging from Fortune 50 companies to single-site distributors.

You will be responsible for developing and executing test cases for Lucas’ software products that run on a variety of leading-edge mobile devices from Motorola, Intermec, Apple, Samsung, Google, and Honeywell.

What You Will Do:

• Review specification and design documentation to flush out ambiguities to ensure testability.

• Identify opportunities for and assist with development and adoption of QA Tools in line with QA Goals.

• Follow existing process guidelines to estimate hours required to conduct Test and QA activities.

• Lead internal meetings in a professional manner and present material to a group of peers as needed.

• Determine test objectives, resources, and manual/automated test strategies for projects.

• Author Test Plans based upon department standards and project needs and within project schedules.

• Setup and execute automated and manual test cases to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are met.

• Create and maintain an existing automation test harness built in Python 3.

• Create automated test scripts within the QA test harness for regression as defined in the project test strategies.

• Identify and log defects in the defect tracking tool as per department standards.

• Assist with classification, management and resolution of all software defects.

• Monitor test progress and provide frequent progress reports to project team during test cycle.

• At the end of a test cycle, publish metrics of test results in a timely manner. Work with project team and Functional Management to identify areas for improvement.

• Be the voice of the customer assuring that we do what is necessary to deliver a quality product.

• Follow established QA processes and standards for the formal delivery of work artifacts.

• Complete specific work as assigned with minimal assistance.

What You Will Need:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Industrial Engineering (significant and relevant work experience coupled with a differing degree will be considered)

• Desire for achieving excellence in customer satisfaction, process and product quality and reliability

• Ability to create and maintain an existing automation test harness built in Python 3; experience with scripting languages like Python, PowerShell

• 2+ years of experience in manual and automated software testing or engineering, server/client, web-based and mobile applications

• Experience or knowledge of Distributed Systems

• Analytical thinking and strong problem solving skills

• Familiarity with networking concepts

• Experience of working independently and within a team, while handling multiple tasks simultaneously

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Microsoft Windows operating system education/experience

Bonus Skills Include:

• Previous work experience and/or knowledge of Warehouse Execution System; working knowledge of Warehouse Operations

• Experience in the development of test automation frameworks or tools

• Experience with load and performance testing