Job Description Summary

As a Sr Director of a enterprise application engineering group, you will lead a brilliant team of software engineers and architects to build solutions that our customers use to keep their fleets flying! You will apply your knowledge of data, infrastructure and 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

Role/ Responsibilities:

• 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 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.
• Partner with the DT CIOs for CEO, Services, Engineering and other stakeholders to our customer portals to drive execution strategy across all technologies related to required business outcomes.
• Focus on culture and building empowered teams that also partner with necessary stakeholders to ensure continuity of business outcomes.
• Build necessary functional business knowledge to understand and support stakeholder engagement and recognition of problems to be solved with technology.
• Partner with stakeholders to adopt technical strategies required to ensure sustainability of technical platforms and adopt enterprise strategies where feasible.
• Partner with DISE internal stakeholders to ensure consistency of external presence for all GE Aviation applications.
• Promote the proper use to User Experience within our external presence to ensure a focused, efficient and connected presence for our customers.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 10 years of professional experience OR Associates degree with minimum of 13 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 15 years of professional experience
• Minimum 7 years of professional experience in software engineering program management.
• Minimum 7 years of professional experience in people leadership
• Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience

Eligibility Requirement:

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.  We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.

Desired Characteristics

• 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.). Guides new teams to adopt Agile, troubleshoots adoption efforts, and guide continuous improvement. Provides training on Lean / Agile. Drives elimination of