Job Description Summary

As a Director, Infrastructure & Database Engineering for the GE Aerospace Digital Workplace team, in this project based role you will be responsible for working closely with the broader Digital Workplace organization to drive the development and deployment of key productivity, collaboration, and engagement tools across the organization in a seamless, contemporary, and modern way. Working under the leadership of our Software & Architecture Leader, you will design, develop, deploy, and maintain our cloud infrastructure which enable our product portfolio of core Intranet Services, Productivity & Collaboration platforms, BPO tooling, Employee Experience & Engagement platforms, and Document Management solutions. You will be part of a growing, focused team to continually develop this internal product portfolio, delivering increased value to our 60,000+ user base across the world, impacting every employee across the company.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Own the infrastructure, hosting, and database strategy for the Digital Workplace organization across AWS, Azure, and on-premises solutions
• Understand business requirements and guide the best landing zone for efficient and effective operations
• Oversee existing footprint of AWS and Azure applications transferred to GE Aerospace from Corporate as part of GE’s proposed separation
• Ensure workloads meet or exceed cybersecurity and compliance requirements to hold GE Aerospace sensitive data
• Design and deploy workloads in the cloud using an Infrastructure as a Code (e.g., Terraform) first mindset across AWS and Azure
• Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product & technology reuse, and sharing knowledge and skills aligned to business priorities
• Deliver resource strategy and plans, including use of 3rd parties/partners, etc., in support of development and support activities
• Communicate effectively both within immediate team and GE leadership
• Ensure team receives consistent messages and has clear understanding of business direction, strategy, and results
• Demonstrate 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
• Provide coaching, feedback, and developmental opportunities to Staff placing an emphasis on not only attracting talent but also retaining it

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 8 years of professional experience OR associate degree with minimum of 11 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 13 years of professional experience
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in Cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure)
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in cloud automation and orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, Nexus, etc.)
• Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience
• Eligibility Requirement for US Candidates:
• -Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. 

Desired Characteristics:

Technical Expertise:

• Experience building scalable, globally accessible web applications and platforms
• Direct experience working with and building applications on Cloud based environments (AWS, Azure, or similar). A prior certification from a cloud provider is a strong plus
• Prior experience designing and delivering Digital Workplace applications is a strong plus
• Demonstrated coaching of others in programing/engineering/architecture frameworks or other
• Understanding of different engineering methodologies and appreciation of when to utilize appropriately
• Well-developed and established analytical and problem skills

Business and Leadership Expertise:

• Comfortable working with different Agile software development methodologies
• Able to develop software for simultaneous, complex projects
• Ability to determine how to integrate disparate systems effective to optimize operational processes
• Demonstrated strong technical and analytical skills
• Solid communication skills at all levels of the organization
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
• Ability to evaluate technology to drive features and roadmaps, mapping technology trends to internal vision and strategy
• Able to effectively communicate drivers behind decisions and continuously reflecting on both success and failures to improve performance and strategy
• Understands when change is needed and actively participates in technical strate