Summary
You will be part of the core team at GE Vernova Electrification Software (GEV ESW) Business that is using software to enable de-carbonized future of energy by designing, building and delivering software applications & services for next generation Grid Software that is used by 40% of the worlds power utilities today. As a Director for Performance products in Operate Portfolio (Transmission and Distribution) for the India team, you will apply your knowledge of management, software development methodologies, best practices, and proven processes to hire, onboard, engage, retain and lead teams to deliver a high quality software product on budget and on time to meet customer commitments and enable revenue recognition. You will work with global leadership team to drive innovation, shape technology and tech stack, enable delivery of this technology to market and support the customers.
Roles and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Work with global leaders of Distribution Portfolio-Performance Suite to meet customer commitments to meet revenue goals and significantly improve quality of the existing products.
- Build a world class software development team to consistently deliver complex software platforms and next gen technologies by hiring, onboarding, and engaging the Grid Engineering leaders and engineers.
- Drive excellence in software delivery in specific areas including development, quality, DevSecOps with focus on delivering end to end solutions, automation and zero-defect mindset.
- Work with multiple global Directors/Sr Director and Executive Leaders to shape vision, develop strategies and execute in presence of ambiguity.
- Support development of strategy for organization including resource planning, innovation and execution strategy and help execute the strategy.
- Build both your personal and teams domain knowledge and expertise in power systems to enable system level thinking and end-to-end delivery.
- Drive customer and market focus in the organization to enable next generation innovation for our products.
- Be externally focused and represent GE Vernova with Universities and Govt, present at conference and drive sales enablement with customers.
- Communicate effectively with employees, leaders, customers, and external community to deliver the right messages and information at the right time.
- Engage with customers to quickly 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.
- Demonstrate mastery of intricacies and interactions within dynamic agile cultures and processes.
- Drive a continuous learning culture to help guide continuous improvements. Develop next generation of people leaders with strong domain and software knowledge.
- Develop, strengthen training and learning plan to grow technical depth in organization.
- Utilize project management tools to track progress and recognize key risk areas for specific implementations.
- Assist in the resolution of conflicting priorities through the proactive communication of requirements, timelines, and stakeholders.
- Operate as a engaged leader who serves as a subject matter and technical expert for assigned programs and development initiatives.
- Work with system leaders and functional teams to ensure products and services adhere to compliance and controllership standards.
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 Thorough knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle principles Through working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and best practices Understanding of full stack platform concepts and technologies Good understanding of Platform Integration strategies by developing applications and framework.
- Defines product vision.
- Lays out product roadmap.
- Maps current requirements to industry trends, analyses competition trends Demonstrates mastery of the intricacies of interactions and dynamics in Agile teams.
- Guides new teams to adopt Agile, troubleshoots adoption efforts, and guide continuous improvement.
- Provides training on Lean / Agile.
- Drives elimination of inefficiencies in coding process.
- Teaches XP practices to others.
- Actively embraces new methods and practices that increase efficiency and effectiveness Thorough understanding of Cloud Technologies and complex Platform Integrated Systems.
- Capable of designing technical implementation plans around integrating Platform systems.
Business 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 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 Leadership: 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 Build a team of highly technical engineers to implement and integrate applications using the Predix Platform ego system. Personal 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 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.
- 7 years of experience as people leader
- Experience in driving agile development practices of large teams. Proven track record of having delivered large scale agile and lean projects/software.
- Must be willing to travel to key sites.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience in working in industrial environments and power grid 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
- Build Grid of the Future lab capabilities and grow innovation and engagement in organization.
