Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at www.acuityinc.com.

Job Summary

Are you a team player who loves diving into technology? Do you want to contribute to a team that strives to solve demanding problems and operates in a space directly involved in reducing the carbon footprint of buildings?

Join our team! We are seeking a Technical Lead Software Engineer with strong architectural expertise to lead a local development team while collaborating closely with a larger, distributed organisation. This role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, driving the design and delivery of scalable SaaS solutions integrated with IoT devices in a secure, cloud-native environment

You’ll be shaping the future of smart buildings by architecting solutions on Facilities—our cloud and edge platform that powers three transformative modules: Organize to simplify deployment and maintenance workflows, Operate to deliver real-time building insights and seamless interaction, and Optimize to uncover inefficiencies and drive peak performance for truly intelligent spaces.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

Lead and mentor a local team of developers, ensuring technical excellence and alignment with global engineering standards.
Act as the technical reference for architecture decisions, design reviews, and best practices.
Design and develop cloud-based SaaS applications emphasizing scalability, security, reliability, and performance.
Integrate IoT devices with cloud platforms (telemetry ingestion, device management, OTA updates).
Champion CI/CD and DevOps practices to optimize delivery pipelines and reduce lead time to production.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams across multiple locations (Product, QA, Security, Ops) to deliver high-quality solutions.
Contribute to technology roadmaps and drive continuous improvement.

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

10+ years of professional software development experience.
Strong expertise in C# and .NET (Core/6+), with production-grade services/APIs.
Hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms (e.g., Azure (preferred) , AWS, GCP) including services for compute, serverless, storage, messaging/eventing, IoT, and secure configuration management, along with infrastructure-as-code tooling.
Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions, branching strategies, IaC).
Track record designing scalable, multi-tenant SaaS architectures.
Demonstrated technical leadership (tech lead, team lead), mentoring and code quality ownership.
Experience with modern frontend engineering using TypeScript and React, including component architecture, state management, API integration, testing, and performance

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Preferred Skills and Experience

Experience with IoT device integration and cloud connectivity (MQTT/AMQP, TLS, provisioning).
Microservices, containers, and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/AKS).
Event-driven architecture and messaging (Service Bus, Event Grid, Kafka).
Experience with cloud security best practices, identity management (OAuth2, OpenID Connect), and data encryption.
Experience with performance tuning for large-scale SaaS platforms.

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

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