Director - Software Engineering

Job Description Summary

As a 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.

Job Description

Site Overview

Established in 2000, the John F. Welch Technology Center (JFWTC) in Bengaluru is GE Aerospace’s multidisciplinary research and engineering center. Pushing the boundaries of innovation every day, engineers and scientists at JFWTC have contributed to hundreds of aviation patents, pioneering breakthroughs in engine technologies, advanced materials, and additive manufacturing.

Role Overview

• Lead a team of world class software/data engineers for SAMS Fleet Modeling
• Lead by example to be a software leader with strong FLIGHT DECK fundamentals
• Be an empathetic leader understanding the needs of the team members
• Be a tech savvy leader where the team will be able to have technical and functional conversations to find resolutions for Fleet business problems
• Build a world class software development team to consistently deliver complex software platforms and research projects of varying size and duration.
• Design and execute on a well thought out strategy for the organization
• Manage a team responsible for UX, front end and back end development using the latest technologies and methodologies adopted from industry wide practices.
• Actively present leadership updates to GE executive sponsors and customers.
• 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
  
  

The Ideal Candidate

Ideal candidate should have experience in Software Development Life Cycle principles,full stack platform concepts and technologies

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with 10+ Years experience.
• Recognizes patterns and complexity in problems. Extracts decomposition algorithms, and strategically plans how to execute programs by understanding how best to decompose to expose / protect against risk
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle principles
• Through working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and best practices
• Understanding of full stack platform concepts and technologies
• Good understanding of Platform Integration strategies by developing applications and framework.
• 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. Demonstrates advanced understanding of Lean Six Sigma principles (e.g., Black belt certified). Guides new teams to adopt Agile, troubleshoots adoption efforts, and guide continuous improvement. Provides training on 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
• Thorough understanding of Cloud Technologies and complex Platform Integrated Systems. Capable of designing technical implementation plans around integrating Platform systems.
  
  

Business Acumen

• 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 the external customer. Continuous engagement with focus on GE strategy for customer satisfaction
  
  

Leadership

• 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 are rewarded
• Establishes vision, Identifies and champions internal/external best practices, tools, and ideas to improve execution and quality. Drives an organization of efficiency, accountability and ownership
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making. Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning
• Build a team of highly technical engineers to implement and integrate applications using the Predix Platform ego system.
  
  

Personal Attributes

• 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 critical thinking best practices 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 in the face of resistance
• 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. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems
• Take on technical challenges and direct the team to achieve a high level of understanding of the platform and industrial use cases.
  
  

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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