What you will do

Johnson Controls is seeking a seasoned .NET Software Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team of developers in designing, building, and maintaining scalable enterprise applications. This role blends technical leadership with people management, ensuring delivery excellence while fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.  In this role, you'll help shape the future of security by advancing our industry-leading CCURE IQ platform—driving innovation to protect people and assets across the globe with smarter, more connected solutions. This is a hybrid position based in Westford, MA. Candidates must be commuting distance to the facility, or able to relocate.

How you will do it

Team Leadership

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of .NET developers
• Conduct performance reviews, career development planning, and hiring
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive engineering culture

Technical Oversight

• Guide architecture and design decisions for .NET-based applications
• Ensure code quality through reviews, testing strategies, and best practices
• Stay current with .NET ecosystem trends and advocate for relevant adoption
• Proven ability to lead by example—balancing hands-on .NET development with mentoring and managing a high-performing engineering team.

Project Delivery

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and QA to deliver features on time
• Define sprint goals, manage backlogs, and ensure agile best practices
• Monitor project health, risks, and dependencies

Process & Quality

• Drive continuous improvement in development processes and tooling
• Champion DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing
• Ensure compliance with cyber security, scalability, and performance standards

What you will do

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in software development, with 3+ years leading projects or lead role.
• Strong expertise in C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET Framework, and related technologies.
• Experience with developing scalable multi-threaded and multi-process solutions that are highly available.
• Familiarity with Enterprise IT environments: MS SQL Server, Windows Server, EntraID, SSO/OAUTH2.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Track record of delivering scalable, secure, and tested solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across engineering, product, and external partners

Preferred

• Experience with Network communications; TCP-IP, TLS Encryption, DNS, Socket/Pipe Communications, etc..
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred), containerization, and RESTful APIs
• Strong understanding of platform reliability, observability, and full lifecycle management
• Experience building a solution in support of thousands of IOT devices and client applications.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and automation to drive measurable productivity improvements across engineering workflows

HIRING SALARY RANGE: $120,000 - $170,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, location and alignment with market data.) This role offers a competitive Bonus plan that will take into account individual, group, and corporate performance. This position includes a competitive benefits package. For details, please visit the About Us tab on the Johnson Controls Careers site at https://jobs.johnsoncontrols.com/about-us

Johnson Controls International plc. is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any other characteristic protected by law. To view more information about your equal opportunity and non-discrimination rights as a candidate, visit EEO is the Law. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please visit here.