The Role
Provides technical leadership for complex, cross-team software capabilities supporting manufacturing and supply chain workflows. Responsibilities include architecture and design, hands-on development, modernization, technical risk and dependency management, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, performance, reliability, and secure development. Partners with product and architecture teams, participates in SAFe events, mentors engineers, establishes reusable patterns, and drives delivery across Agile teams.
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The RoleWe are looking for a Principal Software Developer to join our Manufacturing and Supply Chain (MSC) Engineering organization. You will provide technical leadership for complex, cross-cutting capabilities that support planning, scheduling, optimization, production, and supply chain workflows. Working across Agile teams, you will shape solution design, guide implementation and modernization, manage significant technical risks and dependencies, and raise engineering capability while remaining engaged in hands-on software delivery.Your Impact- Provide technical leadership for complex or cross-team capabilities across the MSC product suite, from problem definition through delivery and support.
- Partner with Product Management, Product Owners, Agile Team Leads, and System Architecture to evaluate feasibility, shape solution options, and define incremental delivery plans.
- Lead architecture and design decisions within the scope of assigned initiatives, aligning implementation with product strategy and system architecture.
- Develop and review critical software components, prototypes, interfaces, and technical designs, while supporting maintenance and modernization of existing codebases.
- Drive engineering excellence in code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, performance, reliability, scalability, and secure design.
- Identify and manage cross-team technical dependencies, risks, trade-offs, and nonfunctional requirements in support of PI objectives.
- Participate in SAFe events and provide technical leadership during PI Planning, backlog refinement, system demos, and Inspect and Adapt.
- Mentor senior engineers and feature leads, establish reusable patterns, and promote knowledge transfer across product areas to reduce technical silos.
What You'll Need:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; an advanced degree is preferred.
- Typically 8+ years of professional software development experience, including technical leadership for enterprise or industrial products.
- Expert software development skills in C#/.NET/Java, with strong experience in APIs, data persistence, distributed systems, and modern architecture practices.
- Proven ability to lead the design and delivery of complex software capabilities across components or teams.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, automated testing, CI/CD, telemetry, performance, reliability, and secure development practices.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business priorities, customer workflows, and technical constraints into implementable solutions and measurable outcomes.
- Experience influencing technical decisions, resolving ambiguity, and aligning stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority.
- Excellent communication, technical writing, mentoring, and presentation skills in English.
Preferred Qualifications/Requirements:
- Experience developing enterprise, industrial, scientific, or data-intensive software applications is desirable.
- Familiarity with complex business domains, distributed systems, workflow-driven applications, mathematical modeling, optimization, analytics, or decision-support systems is a plus.
- Experience with cloud-native systems, REST APIs, microservices, containers or orchestration, telemetry, and modernization of legacy applications.
- Required experience working in Agile software development environments, with hands-on participation in planning, execution, and delivery activities. Strong understanding of SAFe practices, including PI Planning, backlog refinement, dependency management, risk identification and mitigation, iterative delivery, and cross-team collaboration.
- Experience developing shared technical patterns and growing engineering capability across multiple teams or product areas.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mathematics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Typically 8+ years of professional software development experience
- Technical leadership experience with enterprise or industrial products
- Expert software development skills in C#, .NET, or Java
- Strong experience with APIs, data persistence, distributed systems, and modern architecture practices
- Experience leading design and delivery of complex software capabilities across components or teams
- Strong understanding of software architecture, automated testing, CI/CD, telemetry, performance, reliability, and secure development
- Ability to translate business priorities, customer workflows, and technical constraints into implementable solutions
- Experience influencing technical decisions and aligning stakeholders without formal authority
- Excellent communication, technical writing, mentoring, and presentation skills in English
- Advanced degree
- Experience developing enterprise, industrial, scientific, or data-intensive software applications
- Familiarity with workflow applications, mathematical modeling, optimization, analytics, or decision-support systems
- Experience with cloud-native systems, REST APIs, microservices, containers or orchestration, telemetry, and legacy modernization
- Experience working in Agile software development environments with hands-on planning, execution, and delivery
- Strong understanding of SAFe practices, including PI Planning, backlog refinement, dependency management, risk mitigation, and iterative delivery
- Experience developing shared technical patterns and growing engineering capability across teams
Aspen Technology Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Aspen Technology and has not been reviewed or approved by Aspen Technology.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as strong, with comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans and high-quality carrier options. Several recent remarks characterize the health insurance as "great" or "amazing," with low copays noted in some cases.
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Parental & Family Support — Maternity and paternity leave receive consistently positive mentions and are characterized as well-reviewed. Company materials also highlight family-oriented benefits alongside core coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The package includes vacation/PTO, paid holidays, and sick leave, with multiple indications of generous paid time off. Dedicated volunteer hours and well-regarded leave policies reinforce breadth in time-away benefits.
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The Company
What We Do
AspenTech is a global leader in asset optimization software helping the world’s leading industrial companies run their operations more safely, efficiently and reliably – enabling innovation while reducing waste and impact on the environment. AspenTech software accelerates and maximizes value gained from digital transformation initiatives with a holistic approach to the asset lifecycle and supply chain. By introducing effective AI modeling to traditional principles of process engineering, AspenTech delivers a faster and more accurate analysis of efficiency and performance boundaries. The real-time data and actionable insights delivered by our software help customers push the boundaries of what’s possible.
