Distribution Customer Engineering Director
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Location: Bellevue, WA 98006
Description:
Job Description Summary
As the 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
Roles and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
Education Qualification
Desired Characteristics
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.
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. 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:
Evangelizes new technology, predicts trends, and identifies new opportunities based on trends.
Creates a culture of customer focus and high performance to drive innovation. 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.
Personal Attributes:
Uses critical thinking skills and disciplined approaches to help resolve issues and define solutions. Evangelizes and contributes to the GE standards for critical thinking best practices and methodologies across the enterprise.
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.
Additional Information
The base pay range for this position is 193,200.00 - 241,500.00. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, education, and skill set. This position is also eligible for a 20% Variable Incentive Bonus. This posting is expected to close on June 1, 2025.
*The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas.
Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.
General Electric Company, Ropcor, Inc., their successors, and in some cases their affiliates, each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a "Sponsor"). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor's welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
Additional Information
GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova 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 Vernova 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: No
As the 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
Roles and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Manage a world class software development team to consistently deliver customer requirements across complex software products.
- Manage onshore, and offshore, teams responsible for product development and support to customers around the world aligning needs with capability and budget.
- Coordinate engineering teams supporting customer enhancements, and defect resolution, and work with business partners to delight customers.
- Accept Product releases as supportable and suitable for deployment updates to customers on the Distribution release train.
- Arbitrate Project demands with Product strategy and determine risks appropriate actions for customer support requests.
- Actively participate as a senior leader of the Distribution Engineering team
- Actively present leadership updates to GE executive sponsors and customers.
- Work with others to define future technology platforms and architecture for products and services.
- 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
- Assist in the resolution of conflicting priorities 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, and supporting a continuous learning culture.
Education Qualification
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum 8 years of experience
Desired Characteristics
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.
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. 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:
Evangelizes new technology, predicts trends, and identifies new opportunities based on trends.
Creates a culture of customer focus and high performance to drive innovation. 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.
Personal Attributes:
Uses critical thinking skills and disciplined approaches to help resolve issues and define solutions. Evangelizes and contributes to the GE standards for critical thinking best practices and methodologies across the enterprise.
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.
Additional Information
The base pay range for this position is 193,200.00 - 241,500.00. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, education, and skill set. This position is also eligible for a 20% Variable Incentive Bonus. This posting is expected to close on June 1, 2025.
*The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas.
Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.
General Electric Company, Ropcor, Inc., their successors, and in some cases their affiliates, each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a "Sponsor"). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor's welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
Additional Information
GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova 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 Vernova 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: No