Tech Lead-Connected Systems

About Pratt Miller, An Oshkosh Company

Pratt Miller is a product development company in motorsports, defense, and mobility industries providing clients with product engineering and low‑volume production solutions. Our range of research & development, engineering, prototype manufacturing, test & validation, and low‑rate production capability help our customers bring their high‑quality products to market faster.

The Tech Lead – Connected Systems is responsible for providing technical leadership across multidisciplinary software initiatives spanning embedded systems, IoT devices, cloud services, and user‑facing applications. This role combines hands‑on software development with architectural ownership, technical direction, and team mentorship. The Tech Lead drives architectural decisions, ensures quality and scalability of technical deliverables, and guides engineering teams through the full software development lifecycle.

The position partners closely with program management, product stakeholders, and cross‑functional engineering teams to deliver high‑performance, secure, and reliable software solutions aligned with organizational objectives.

• Provide technical leadership across projects, establishing architectural direction and ensuring alignment with long‑term platform strategy.
• Design, test, and implement scalable, secure, and high‑performance software systems across embedded, edge, and cloud environments.
• Lead technical planning, break down complex problems into actionable work streams, and guide teams to effective solutions.
• Maintain ownership of technical deliverables, ensuring quality, performance, maintainability, and security standards are met.
• Write, review, and debug code across the full stack when necessary, setting the example for engineering excellence.
• Mentor and develop engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and structured technical guidance.
• Collaborate closely with project managers to maintain schedule alignment, set team priorities, and proactively mitigate risks.
• Drive adoption and improvement of internal frameworks, design patterns, standards, and best practices.
• Participate in cross‑functional design discussions to ensure integration across mechanical, electrical, embedded, and cloud systems.
• Troubleshoot complex system‑level issues across distributed architectures.
• Support team development activities, including performance feedback, technical growth planning, and hiring input as needed.
• Research emerging technologies and assess their applicability to current and future product initiatives.

• BS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Information Systems, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of five years of progressively responsible software engineering experience, including technical leadership responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering complex, distributed systems.
• Experience working in collaborative, cross‑functional environments with distributed teams.
• Experience with embedded systems, automotive engineering, robotics, or cloud‑based platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) preferred.

• Proficiency in multiple programming languages such as C#, Python, Java, C/C++, and JavaScript/Type Script.
• Deep experience with .NET Framework, .NET Core/.NET, ASP.NET, and modern backend architectures.
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as Angular or React.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and No
  
  SQL databases (SQL Server, Postgre
  
  SQL, Mongo
  
  DB, Redis, Cassandra, etc.).
• Experience with messaging and communication protocols including MQTT, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Kafka, gRPC, DDS, RESTful APIs, and Web Sockets.
• Hands‑on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines (Azure Dev Ops, Git Lab CI/CD, Jenkins).
• Cloud platform experience:
• Azure (AKS, App Service, Azure Functions, Event Hub/Service Bus, API Management, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Key Vault, Managed Identities, Azure Dev Ops, Monitor/Application Insights, IoT Hub/IoT Edge)
• AWS (EKS, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Dynamo
  
  DB/RDS, SNS/SQS, Kinesis, IAM, Cloud Watch, IoT Core)
• Experience with IoT and…