Senior Software Architect

General Electric

As a Staff Software Architect of a software engineering group, you will apply your knowledge of management, software development methodologies, best practices and proven processes to deliver a quality software product on budget, within planned schedule with superb quality.

Essential Responsibilities

Business Overview:

At GE Software, we are creating technology and solutions to enable social, mobile, analytical and cloud capabilities for the Industrial Internet. The Industrial Internet is an open, global network that connects people, data and machines. It’s about making infrastructure more intelligent and advancing the industries critical to the world we live in.

At GE, we believe it’s about the future of industry—energy, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing. It’s about making the world work better.

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In this role, you will:

• Demonstrate very strong technical leadership and people management skills including solid communication and analytical skills with thorough understanding of product development and successful problem definition, decomposition, estimation and resolution.
• Influence decision making through active partnership with cross-functional teams
• Manage strategic business partnerships and relationships through Technical, Financial, Contractual and Relationship management.
• Own and manage the multiple rapid prototyping and product development budgets.
• Coach, mentor and lead a diverse group of lean/agile software and user experience engineers.
• Work with product owners across the business to understand market needs & vision; quickly translate that vision into demonstrable software
• Quickly define and deliver working software prototypes
• Work with product owners and architects to develop multi generation software technology plans.
• Work directly with customers to understand business and technical needs.
• Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse based on framework provided for the solution.
• Support process improvements which guide the development, sustaining & support activities.
• Work cross functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables.
• Drive world-class quality in the development and support of products.
• Keep project data relating to tracking and financials current.
• Deliver resource strategy and plans, including use of 3rd parties/partners, etc., in support of development and support activities.
• Plan and manage budgets related to scope of team.
• Communicate effectively both within immediate team and GE leadership.
• Ensure team receives consistent messages and has clear understanding of business direction, strategy and results.
• Build a world class software development team to consistently deliver complex software solutions of varying size and duration

this is an EVERGREEN position, meaning that the Talent Acquisition Specialist will contact

suitable candidates as soon as the intake for this vacancy opens. Currently we are gathering

potential candidates who would be interested in this role.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or equivalent knowledge or experience.
• A minimum of 12 years of professional experience in managing engineering organization or 10 years plus Master’s degree in computer science.