**Job Number**
2755287
**Business**
GE Oil & Gas
**Business Segment**
Oil & Gas Digital Solutions
**About Us**
GE is the world’s Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.
GE Oil & Gas is a world leader in advanced technologies and services with 35,000 employees in more than 100 countries supporting customers across the industry—from extraction to transportation to end use. Our unrelenting commitment to the environment, health and safety, quality and integrity defines us: it’s The Way We Work. We develop smart solutions for our customers across the oil and gas value chain delivering the innovation, customized service solutions, training programs and technology that helps them to maximize their efficiency, productivity and equipment reliability. We partner with our customers to develop their next generation workforce; help them to fully benefit from the megatrends of natural gas, the growth of subsea and hard-to-reach reserves and the revolution in asset health management.
Learn more about GE Oil and Gas Today! http://www.ge-energy.com/about/oil_and_gas.jsp
At GE, we believe it’s about the future of industry—energy, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing. It’s about making the world work better.
You can learn more here: GE Digital (https://www.ge.com/digital/) and GE (http://www.ge.com/).
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.
**Posted Position Title**
Executive - Functional Management
**Career Level**
Experienced
**Function**
Engineering/Technology
**Function Segment**
Functional Management
Location(s) Where Opening Is Available India
**City**
Bangalore
**Postal Code**
560066
**Relocation Assistance**
Yes
**Role Summary/Purpose**
As Executive, Software Engineering, you will provide technical leadership and be responsible for building and leading multiple lean/agile software engineering teams across GE Oil & Gas Digital product lines.
**Essential Responsibilities**
• As our new Executive, Software Engineering you will:
• Manage the software development process, including planning, task assignments, code reviews, and design signoff.
• Establish and run agile development and DevOps rhythms, rituals, and artifacts.
• Focus on customer outcomes. Collaborate with Product Management on product roadmap planning, functional and non-functional requirements and product release planning to ensure we’re building a world-class SaaS product.
• Build and maintain a world-class team and own the staffing, head-count planning, functional skill mix, expertise, and training programs and processes.
• Work closely with key stakeholders across the organization to define the technology roadmap that is aligned with the strategic goals of the product group.
• Build a culture that motivates and energizes the best engineers and encourages the career development of junior team members.
• Demonstrate independence, creativity and initiative and the ability to master a solid understanding of the Industrial Internet strategy and its business goals.
• Be a hands-on leader. Conduct and participate in review code, review design docs, give technical talks, teaching classes and develop future leaders.
• Run a tight ship. Manage development costs to plan; strike the right balance between contract and full-time labor; efficiently procure hardware and software; constantly strive for quality and velocity improvements.
• Communicate effectively with your team, peers, and GE leadership. Ensure the team receives consistent messages and has a clear understanding of the business environment, product strategy and the results that matter
• Demonstrate the highest levels of leadership integrity, openness, compliance and honesty in all business interactions
**Qualifications/Requirements**
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• A minimum of 15 years of professional experience in software engineering and product development with minimum 10 years of leadership experience
• Minimum 5+ years of experience managing/leading software engineers, developing functional specifications and design, build vs. buy analysis of software products
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience developing software in an Agile environment
• Minimum 5+ years’ expertise developing complex SaaS software
Eligibility Requirements:
• GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in India for this opening. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this role.
• Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.
• Must be willing to travel 15%
• Must be willing to work out of an office located in Bangalore, India
**Desired Characteristics**
• Expertise in agile project management and a proven track record for delivering projects ontime with limited budget and resources
• Experience working with engineering teams in multiple locations and time zones.
• Experience in creating and rapidly scaling high performance software development teams.
• Strong distributed systems and architecture knowledge, and experience with multitier architecture
• Mission critical systems experience is preferred
• Ability to manage complex technical projects.
• Demonstrates expertise in problem solving and technical innovation.
• Demonstrated experience of delivering on commitments to clients.
• Demonstrates capability of 'rolling up sleeves and getting hands dirty'.
• Works well in fast paced growing environment.
• Provides excellent influential communication skills and business acumen to both an arbitrator and advocate for technical issues.
• Experience developing applications in an agile/DevOps environment would be a distinct advantage, including previous experience of writing code
• Experience working in a Java web development shop
• Solid understanding of software development tools & infrastructure
• Effective teaming and problem solving abilities
• Strong oral and written communication skills including executive level presentation skills
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Able to interface effectively with all levels of the organization and external customers
Technical Expertise:
• Proven track record of strong people management within at least one discipline and or expertise within the discipline. Strong cross functional collaboration and influencing skills at high levels. Ability to make decisions that have deep impact.
• Guides, influences and determines decisions regarding companywide adoption of new technologies. Evangelizes modern technologies to development teams, stakeholders and GE executives.
• Prior experience with working across the full technology stack, including the use of cloud services and micro-services architecture
• Prior experience launching a SaaS product for commercialization
• Experience of managing a large (70+ people) geographically distributed engineering team
Business Acumen:
• 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.
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.
• Sets/changes direction at the enterprise level by building and using direct and indirect support for ideas.
Personal Attributes:
• Uses critical thinking skills and disciplined approaches to help leaders and leadership teams resolve issues and define solutions.
• 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