Senior Director - Software Engineering

Job Description Summary

As a Sr Director of a software engineering group, you will apply your knowledge of management, software development methodologies, best practices, and proven processes to lead teams to deliver a quality software product on budget, within planned schedule with superb quality. This role will be responsible for leading the software Engineering teams for iFix and Cimplicity products for Manufacturing Digital. The HMI/SCADA products are one of the key revenue generating products for GE Digitals' Manufacturing business unit. Other than Automation products, this role will also be responsible for some of the ongoing innovations in Manufacturing digital, such as Enterprise data. This role will also have a key responsibility to lead all the site related activities for the team.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for Engineering leadership of HMI/SCADA products (termed as Automation products namely iFix and Cimplicity) for Manufacturing digital

• Build a world class software development team to consistently deliver complex software platforms which are accountable for majority of revenue generation for Manufacturing digital business.

• Collaborate closely with horizontal product teams such as Operations Hub, Configuration hub, User Authentication etc. to ensure HMI designer and other applications are well integrated. Design and execute on a well thought out strategy for the global organization growth

• Actively present leadership updates to GE executive sponsors and customers.

• Partner with Product Management team to formulate the technical roadmap aligned to product strategy.

• Lead some key organization wide global initiatives to bring transformation in the teams

• Work with others to define future technology platforms and architecture for products and services.

• Quickly learn, internalize and develop a strong understanding of key priorities and the clients

• Align with stakeholders to ensure that data and process changes required in systems are implemented in accordance with project objectives and timelines

• Provide day to day work direction for team members engaged in projects and delivery.

• Facilitate and coach software engineering teams on requirements estimate and work sizing.

• Demonstrate mastery of intricacies and interactions within dynamic agile cultures and processes.

• Drive a continuous learning culture to help guide continuous improvements.

• Provide leadership on Lean/Agile principles and development practices.

• Actively pursue new methods and practices to increase productivity

• Utilize project management tools to track progress and recognize key risk areas for specific implementations

• Assist in the resolution of conflicting priorites through the proactive communication of requirements, timelines and stakeholders.

• Operate as a engaged leader who serves as a subject matter and technical expert for assigned programs and development initiatives

• Work with system leaders and functional teams to ensure products and services adhere to compliance and controllership standards

• Share technical, procedural, and business knowledge with others.

• Leverage your domain expertise; you are expected to further the knowledge and improve productivity of your colleagues with activities such as creating learning content, giving presentations, continuous learning culture.

Education Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum years of experience of 10 years

Desired Characteristics

• Recognizes patterns and complexity in problems. Extracts decomposition algorithms, and strategically plans how to execute programs by understanding how best to decompose to expose

• Defines product vision. Lays out product roadmap. Maps current requirements to industry trends, analyses competition trends

• Demonstrates mastery of the intricacies of interactions and dynamics in Agile teams.). Guides new teams to adopt Agile, troubleshoots adoption efforts, and guide continuous improvement Lean / Agile. Drives elimination of inefficiencies in coding process. Teaches XP practices to others. Actively embraces new methods and practices that increase efficiency and effectiveness Previous experience in software development in an agile environment and writing code

• Previous experience working in a Java web development environment and/or C++/.Net environments

• Demonstrates advanced understanding of Linux or Unix operating systems

• Demonstrates advanced understanding of software development tools & infrastructure

• Prioritizes projects based on an assessment of competitive needs. Anticipates areas of competitive vulnerability and offers plans to mitigate them

• Evangelizes new technology, predicts trends, and identifies new opportunities based on trends. Acts as industry expert by participating in defining standards and open source initiatives Creates a culture of customer focus and high performance to drive innovation. Creates and pitches value for the GE investor while balancing that with the sometimes competing value for t Continuous engagement with focus on GE strategy for customer satisfaction

• Establishes framework for a culture of successful collaboration by defining a common understanding of who has decision rights and accountability, and how collaboration and transparency

• Establishes vision, Identifies and champions internal/external best practices, tools, and ideas to improve execution and quality. Drives an organization of efficiency, accountability

Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making. Understands when Participates in technical strategy planning

• Additional leadership experience in areas of operations, manufacturing and quality preferred

• Uses critical thinking skills and disciplined approaches to help leaders and leadership teams resolve issues and define solutions. Evangelizes and contributes to the GE standards for critic and methodologies across the enterprise. Defines new critical thinking methods. Engages with external thought-leaders and communities on analytical and critical thinking methodologies

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity

• Evangelizes the notion that anything worth doing takes repeated effort and failure. Drives the organization toward a continued excitement of attaining the vision and goal

• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactive and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems

Note

Note:

To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of t with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as s employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.

GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal Opportunity Employer ( . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes