Job Description Summary

As Staff Software Engineer, you’ll work closely with architects and technical product managers to translate overall system architecture and product rAs a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical and data strategies across multiple teams within the organization. You will collaborate closely with architects and technical product managers to translate overarching system architecture and product requirements into cohesive, high-quality software solutions. In this role, you will not only drive the design and implementation of key software components but also set the technical direction, ensuring alignment across groups. Your leadership will emphasize quality, test-driven development, and adherence to sound software engineering practices, using industry best practices to maintain a high standard of excellence across all team deliverables.

At GE Healthcare, we are committed to bringing cloud-based solutions for our customers: all aspects of computing services across the cloud and edge – including servers, databases, storage, networking, analytics, software, intelligence are delivered over the Internet. Our Science & Technology organization is harnessing the power of technology to make healthcare more precise, more personalized, and more accessible for everyone. From driving the overall clinical research and patient-centric innovation strategy to delivering new digital and machine learning capabilities - we’re committed to leading digital transformation, improving outcomes for patients and providers, and creating a world where healthcare has no limits. To find out more, visit: https://jobs.gecareers.com/science-technology

This role is located in Bellevue, WA working on a hybrid basis, with 3 days/week in the office.

Job Description

Roles/Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining a scalable and efficient data architecture that supports the organization’s strategic goals. 
• Data Strategy Development: Formulate and implement a strategic vision for data architecture aligned with business objectives.
• Data Modeling: Create conceptual, logical, and physical data models to meet business needs, ensuring data integrity and scalability.
• Data Governance and Compliance: Ensure adherence to data governance policies and regulatory requirements to maintain data security and privacy.
• Technology Evaluation: Assess and recommend new technologies and methodologies to enhance data management processes. 
• Collaborate with the team to solve complex business problems, ensuring that solutions align with both technical and data strategies.
• Develop high-quality distributed system software, incorporating modern cloud, edge, and data-driven approaches.
• Work closely with architects and technical product managers to translate overall system architecture, product requirements, and data strategy into well-designed and implemented software components.
• Take ownership of the implementation of individual software components, with a strong emphasis on quality, test-driven development, sound software engineering practices, and data integrity.
• Participate in software design reviews, conduct peer code reviews, and provide input and feedback to other members of the development team, ensuring alignment with technical and data strategies.
• Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain innovative software solutions to enhance service performance, durability, cost efficiency, security, and data utilization.
• Utilize software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all team deliverables, while also ensuring that data strategies are effectively implemented and maintained.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• 9+ years of professional software development experience with a history of technical innovation
• 3+ years of experience building scalable, distributed systems using modern frameworks such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• 3+ years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, focusing on design patterns, reliability, and scaling
• Experience providing technical leadership to engineers, leading an engineering team, and/or mentorship

Desired Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience, including 3+ years working with big data systems, analytics, containerized microservices, serverless functions, and event-driven architecture
• Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

• Experience in designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems, preferably using AWS technologies

• Experience with Big Data technologies, including data storage and processing frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and NoSQL databases like Cassandra or MongoDB
• 2+ years of experience working directly with end customers to assess needs, identify solutions, and constructively resolve disagreements
• Experience in supporting production software deployments
• Technical expertise across all deployment models, including public cloud and on-premises infrastructure
• Experience in creating, documenting, and communicating software architectures for complex products
• Experience in building, tracking, and communicating plans within Agile processes

Eligibility Requirements

• GE HealthCare may choose to sponsor visas as business needs dictate.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a significant value on work-life balance. Having a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here. We don’t focus on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We maintain diverse engineering, and leadership perspectives and backgrounds across technology and beyond. Our employees are excited to share their experiences and mentor more junior engineers. Team members are highly encouraged to set up mentorship relationships with seasoned engineers, not only in our team, but also across the broader GE Healthcare population.
 

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at GE HealthCare, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have many employee-led affinity groups, innovative benefit offerings, and encourage ongoing learning experiences.

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For U.S. based positions only, the pay range for this position is $206,448.00-$309,672.00 Annual. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the pay range and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including skills, qualifications, experience and location. In addition, this position may also be eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). GE HealthCare offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, and tuition reimbursement.

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.