Director – Grid Solution & Certification Engineering

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Build a world class enterprise software integration, testing and certification team to consistently deliver high quality, full integrated Grid software products such as ADMS, AEMS and the newly launched GridOS.
• Build, own and grow the CI/CD, System Integration Reference Environment (SIRE) that run Grid Software products. Own and converge the test environments across business and work on plan to integrate all SIREs in the business. Integrate the SIRE into the Evergreen cloud deployment strategy to enable faster deployment to customers.
• Own and drive certification of runtime environment for different products including hardware qualification, integration, and testing. Recreate customer issues and enhance regression tests based on customer found bugs to drive continuous improvement of SIRE.
• Demonstrate strong ownership and accountability through efficient process and communication across the organization.
• Work across cross functional leadership team to shape vision, develop strategies, and execute in presence of ambiguity for the integrated reference environment.
• Support development of strategy for organization including resource planning, innovation, and execution.
• Use AI and advanced technologies such as simulation to build best in class test data sets to drive thorough integrated testing of the products.
• Build both your personal and team’s domain knowledge and expertise in power systems to enable system level thinking and end-to-end delivery to drive enterprise solution engineering.
• Engage with customers to learn, internalize, and develop key priorities for their teams and provide day to day work direction for people leaders and teams engaged in projects and delivery.
• Build high performance teams and accelerate delivery of products with good quality and security.
• Drive a continuous learning culture to help guide continuous improvements. Develop next generation of people leaders with strong domain and software knowledge.
• Ability to develop project plans and thoroughly tracking them for progress and mitigating risks
• Operate as an engaged leader who serves as a subject matter and technical expert for assigned programs and development initiatives.
• Deliver Evergreen product through collaboration with services team for customers to deploy with confidence in production by providing solution environments in the cloud through deployment automation

Desired Characteristics

• Thorough knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle principles
• Thorough working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and best practices
• Deep understanding and experience of full stack platform concepts and technologies used in mission critical and highly secure real time systems.
• Good understanding of Cloud Technologies and complex Platform Integrated Systems.
• Experience designing technical implementation plans for integrating Platform systems.
• Deep understanding of agile methodologies and frameworks
• Guides teams to adopt Agile, troubleshoot adoption efforts, and focus on continuous improvement.
• Teaches XP practices to others. Actively embraces new methods and practices that increase efficiency and effectiveness

• Creates and presents 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 satisfaction

• Establishes framework for a culture of successful collaboration by defining a common understanding

• 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 communicate 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
• Build a team of highly technical engineers to implement and integrate applications using the Predix Platform ego system.

• 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
• Take on technical challenges and direct the team to achieve a high level of understanding of the platform and industrial use cases.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) + with minimum 15 years of experience in building and delivering software solutions.
• Proven track record of having delivered enterprise scale agile and lean projects/software with DevOps focus.
• 7 years of experience as people leader
• Must be willing to travel to key sites, if required.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in working in industrial environments and power grid is a strong plus
• Experience in having worked in enterprise solution building and DevOps is a strong plus
• Working on data system across multiple operating systems/cloud environments is considered strong plus
• Advanced degrees such as MS specially in distributed computing or data systems is strong plus
• Building and qualifying hardware labs and growing innovation is a strong plus

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