Job Description Summary
Our mission, as innovators in advanced energy conversion and storage systems, is to empower our utility and industrial customers by solving their most challenging electrification problems and accelerating their transition to a sustainable, decarbonized future. The discipline executes a robust process of design, creation, and optimization of systems, consisting of identification and quantification of system requirements, creation of alternate system design concepts, performance of design trade studies, selection and implementation of the best designs, and verification that the design is properly integrated and executed. This process proceeds from concept to production to operation.
Impacts approaches, projects, and programs in the functional area or affected business organization and ways of working. Impacts quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of own team. Has significant input into priorities. Guided by professional practices and policies that are shaped by the role. The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment.
Job Description
Lead the software development department and use your software leadership skills to manage various teams to develop a wide range of industrial control products, engineering tools, and integrated control systems for various businesses within Power Conversion & Solar UK, such as Offshore Marine, Naval, Industry, and Oil & Gas.
* Manage up to 25 software engineers and supporting functions within multiple teams, resolving day-to-day personnel issues and supporting their long-term career development.
* Be responsible for all aspects of the development department, including on-time delivery of developments, customer satisfaction, quality, budgets, compliance, and adherence to company safety and HR policies.
* Work closely with Product Managers to define and implement the strategy for the development of industrial control products and integrated automation systems for use by GE Power Conversion businesses.
* Manage teams developing products that include real-time industrial controllers, industrial communications protocols, Windows-based HMIs, Windows-based engineering tools, and remote monitoring and diagnostic applications.
* Working with the business domain experts, define, develop, and maintain control system architectures based on these products that meet specific industry requirements and can be efficiently engineered on contracts. Application areas include Marine Dynamic Positioning Systems, Power Management Systems, and Drive control systems.
* Work with Program Managers to manage allocated project budgets and monitor actual expenditures and costs against delivered benefits and agreed KPIs.
* Report progress of projects at regular intervals within the development organization and to key stakeholders.
* Refine software development processes (including IEC62443 SDLC) across the department to ensure both continuous improvement and consistency across the teams in areas such as quality, cyber security, coding practices, and development technologies.
* Drive a continuous improvement culture including reuse, cooperation, knowledge management, and lessons learned.
* Drive the development of the products and systems to achieve certification to recognized standards in areas such as cyber security (e.g., IEC 62443/NIST) and integrity (e.g., IEC 61508/NIST).
* Ensure that the technical choices made within the organization and the skill sets of the engineers permit the products and systems to be maintained, upgraded, and supported by the service organization over the lifetime of the supplied systems.
* Liaise with equivalent development leaders and teams in India, France, and Germany to coordinate resources, developments, and processes across the different teams and to ensure that the resulting products and systems are compatible and adhere to common standards.
QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
* Degree or equivalent in software engineering or computer science.
* 10+ years of experience within a software engineering management role or similar.
* Proven record of leadership of software teams in the development of complex products.
* Experience leading Agile programs and knowledge of SDLC standards, such as IEC 62442 4-1.
* Awareness of cyber security principles when applied to software development, products, and systems.
* Knowledge of product development, including awareness of applicable rules, regulations, customer standards, intellectual property rights, and export control.
* Ability to operate under pressure in a multi-skilled, multi-disciplinary environment, with many parallel activities.
* Understanding of department management activities, such as HR processes, department budgets, and general commercial processes.
* Ability to earn the respect of a diverse group of people, both internally within the department and with external stakeholders, from young inexperienced engineers to senior leaders of the company.
* Strong communication and presentation skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders, both verbally and via documents, emails, and PowerPoints.
* Management computer skills, such as use of project planning software (MS Project), Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
* Strong decision-making skills to digest and process a wide range of information and to make and communicate clear decisions in a timely fashion, knowing when to escalate issues when appropriate.
* Flexibility to continuously monitor projects and technologies and to know when to change direction if things are not going as expected.
* The successful candidate needs to be able to attain security clearance to work on Naval projects.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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.
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