| Job Number: | 2479805 |
| Business: | GE Digital |
| Business Segment: | Digital Predix, Products & Technology |
| 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.
At GE’s new Software Center of Excellence in San Ramon, CA, some of the brightest minds in technology are developing the software, analytics, and user experiences that will transform industries and improve lives by connecting people and businesses to the nearly 50 billion machines and devices that build, move, power, and cure our world. GE calls this vision the “Industrial Internet,” and GE developers are leveraging technology advances such as cloud computing, intelligent devices, and big data and analytics to deliver ground-breaking new ways of tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. 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: | Director of Open Technology Strategy |
| Career Level: | Experienced |
| Function: | Engineering/Technology |
| Function Segment: | Applications and Software |
| Location: | United States |
| U.S. State, China or Canada Provinces: | California |
| City: | San Ramon |
| Postal Code: | 94583-9130 |
| Relocation Assistance: | No |
| Role Summary/Purpose: | At GE Digital we are looking for an entrepreneurial and highly technical Software Director with excellent background in open source foundation and standards consortia engagement. This role reports into the Chief Architect of the Predix Platform. Predix is GE’s Industrial Internet Platform (Industrial IOT) to help customers build and operationalize applications that help reduce unplanned maintenance downtime for customers by leveraging sensor data and analytics. |
| Essential Responsibilities: | As a critical part of Predix Leadership, you will be responsible for developing and facilitating the execution of external engagement strategies in open source foundations and industry standards consortia for Predix products and services. The primary responsibility is to be the subject matter expert on open technology strategy, assisting the Predix senior leadership team, as well as various stakeholders across the company in establishing and executing open technology strategies for various products. You’ll do so by creating a pipeline of engagement proposals and driving them through a governance process that brings together business, technology, and legal perspectives to ensure that GE Digital participates effectively in the ecosystem.
These capabilities are delivered to developers and administrators through Cloud Foundry based Micro Services Architecture. As a Director of Open Technology Strategy you will be responsible to engage with product, legal, and executive teams to ensure a cohesive open source engagement strategy: 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
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 businesses 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
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 platforms and research projects of varying size and duration |
| Qualifications/Requirements: | Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math),
Minimum of 12 years experience in the software domain or a Master’s Degree with 10 years of experience
Minimum of 6 years experience in an engineering leadership / management role
Minimum of 4 years experience developing software in an agile environment.Eligibility Requirements:
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
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen
Must be willing to travel
Must be willing to work out of an office located in San Ramon, CA |
| Additional Eligibility Qualifications: | GE 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 background investigation and drug screen. |
| Desired Characteristics: | Technical Expertise:
Recognizes patterns and complexity in problems. Extracts decomposition algorithms, and strategically plans how to execute programs by understanding how best to decompose to expose / protect against risk
Defines product vision. Lays out product roadmap. Maps current requirements to industry trends, analyses competition trends
Prior experience in leadership positions in open source or similar foundations
Ability to identify opportunities where GE can provide leadership in this field
Deep understanding of open technology business modelsBusiness Acumen:
Prioritizes projects based on an assessment of competitive needs. Anticipates areas of competitive
vulnerability and offers plans to mitigate them
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. Creates and pitches value for the GE investor while balancing that with the sometimes competing value for the external customer. Continuous engagement with focus on GE strategy for customer satisfactionLeadership:
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
Additional leadership experience in areas of operations, manufacturing and quality preferredPersonal Attributes:
Uses critical thinking skills and disciplined approaches to help leaders and leadership teams resolve issues and define solutions. Evangelizes and contributes to the GE standards for critical thinking best practices and methodologies across the enterprise. Defines new critical thinking methods. Engages with external thought-leaders and communities on analytical and critical thinking methodologies
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 |