Job Description Summary

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Drive MRI software serviceability architecture domain technical and business reviews.
• Lead and coordinate the domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction across the product portfolio or product line.
• Analyze design and develop a roadmap and implementation plan based upon a current vs. future state in a cohesive architecture viewpoint.
• Demonstrate technical leadership with maturity in balancing scope, timing, and resources.
• Drives software development and data delivery platforms with reusable components keeping platforming in perspective.
• Demonstrates superior product and industry knowledge and helps the organization gain a competitive edge.
• Review and/or analyze and develop architectural requirements at domain level within product portfolio or team.
• Collaborates with Principal Engineers, cross-functional team architects, to understand their evolving requirements and translate them to architectural runway features and ensures execution.
• Participate in the EA (Enterprise Architecture) domain governance model.
• Lead the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry, and market trends to assist in project development and/or operational support activities.
• Communicate technology strategy in a simple, understandable manner to the business leaders and engineers.
• Finds opportunities for collaboration across groups in the division, ensures that cross-team commitments are set, and achieves scale in work efforts by enabling the work of others.
• Chooses the appropriate internal or external technologies, incorporates research, creates designs that can be reused across teams, and is an excellent judge of practices that work well.
• Provides subject matter expertise in processes and methodologies with ability to adapt and improvise in various situations.
• Guide junior team members in the art and science of software development, promoting a quality-centric approach to software development.

Education Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).
• Minimum 8 years of software design & development experience working with cross-functional teams in an industry environment.
• Minimum 3 years of experience as a Software Architect leading a technical team delivering software designs.
• Experience in object-oriented design (OOAD) methodology and mastery of programming languages such as Java/C++ and scripting languages Python/Perl/Bourne.
• Experience with Web Application Frameworks such as Angular or React.
• Experience with API-first development and REST or HATEOAS concepts.
• Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or SQLite.
• Experience in software development on Linux operating system.
• Proven knowledge of the Software development lifecycle in product delivery and maintenance.

Desired Characteristics         

Technical Expertise:

• Constantly analyzes industry trends in software development practices, technology stacks and becomes a change agent in driving them across the imaging platform software organization.
• Demonstrates mastery of the intricacies of interactions and dynamics in Agile teams. Guides the team to adopt Agile, troubleshoots adoption efforts, and guides continuous improvement.
• Drives elimination of inefficiencies in legacy infrastructure & development practices. Willing to learn innovative technologies as well as maintain existing products. Flexible with roles and job duties per business requirements
• Hands on experience with multiple relevant technologies that may include Java, Perl/Python, JavaScript, Code analysis tools (e.g., SonarQube, Coverity), Docker, VMWare tech stacks.

Business Acumen:

• Evangelizes innovative technology, predicts trends, and identifies new opportunities based on trends. Acts as industry expert by participating in defining standards and open-source initiatives.
• Adept at navigating the organizational matrix; understanding people's roles, can foresee obstacles, identify workarounds, leverage resources and rally teammates.
• Recommends allocation of budget to meet architectural initiatives critical to business/mission success.
• Prioritizes projects based on an assessment of competitive needs. Anticipates areas of competitive vulnerability and offers plans to mitigate them.
• Creates a culture of customer focus and high performance to drive innovation.
• Experience acting as a Product Owner within Agile.

Leadership:

• 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.
• Sets/changes direction at the enterprise level by building and using direct and indirect support for ideas.
• Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against scheduled commitments.

Personal Attributes:

• Uses critical thinking skills and disciplined approaches to help leaders and leadership teams resolve issues and define solutions.
• Evangelizes the notion that anything worth doing takes repeated effort and failure. Drives the organization toward a continued excitement of attaining the vision and persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks.
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly adds value. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns innovative solutions and processes to address unanswerable problems.
• Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit.

#LI-LRG1

#LI-Onsite

#LI-Hybrid

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.