Sr. Staff Enterprise Application Engineer

Job description

3080382
Additional Cities

Atlanta
Career Level

Experienced
Relocation Assistance

No
Business

GE Transportation
Business Segment

Transportation Digital Solutions
Function

Digital Technology
Country/Territory

United States
Additional States/Provinces

Georgia
Postal Code

30305-3326
Role Summary/Purpose

This position is responsible for designing highly complex modules, critical components or a whole application/product in its entirety. Has the vision to integrate it across multiple systems. This position works independently and is seen as a technical leader. The position is responsible for driving the design and development efforts related to architecture, scalability, availability and performance in alignment with the product/application roadmap.
Essential Responsibilities

·  Be responsible for providing technical leadership and defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development m and infrastructure

·  Provide guidance to developers with either planning and execution and/or design architecture using agile methodologies such as SCRUM

·  Work with Product Line Leaders (PLLs) to understand product requirements & vision

·  Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse

·  Capture system level requirements by brainstorming with CTO, Sr. Architects, Data Scientists, Businesses & Product Managers

·  Leads impact assessment and decision related to technology choices, design /architectural considerations and implementation strategy.

·  Subject matter expert in processes and methodologies with ability to adapt and improvise in various situations.

·  Expert in navigating through ambiguity and prioritizing conflicting asks.

·  Expert level skills in design, architecture and development, with an ability to take a deep dive in the implementation aspects if the situation demands.

·  Leads the architecture and design efforts across the product / multiple product versions and is an expert in architecting custom solutions off the base product.

·  Expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and has the ability to implement them using language of choice when necessary – as a value offering.
Qualifications/Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

·  Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)

·  A minimum of 10 years of technical experience along with established leadership credentials across disciplines and functions within a product OR Master’s degree with 8 years of experience OR PhD with 5 years of experience.

·  GE Leadership Program Graduates will get credit towards relevant work experience, commensurate to the program they have completed

Eligibility Requirements:

·  Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job

·  Must be willing to travel up to 30% of the time.

·  Must be willing to work out of an office located in Atlanta, GA
Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

·  Facilitates & coaches software engineering team sessions on requirements estimation and alternative approaches to team sizing and estimation

·  Leads a community of practice around estimation to share best practices among teams

·  Knowledgeable about developments in UX in various contexts, businesses, and industries

·  Quantifies effectiveness of design choices by gathering data

·  Drives accountability and adoption

·  Publishes guidance and documentation to promote adoption of design

·  Proposes design solutions based on research and synthesis; creates general design principles that capture the vision & critical concerns for a program

·  Demonstrates mastery of the intricacies of interactions and dynamics in Agile teams

·  Demonstrates advanced understanding of Lean Six Sigma principles (e.g., Black belt certified)

·  Guides new teams to adopt Agile, troubleshoots adoption efforts, & guide continuous improvement. Provides training on Lean / Agile. Drives elimination of inefficiencies in coding process. Teaches XP practices to others

·  2+ years of experience designing & developing cloud applications in AWS

·  5+ years Full stack development experience with the following technologies and platforms: Java, Python Spark, App Servers (Tomcat, JBoss, WS02), Terraform, Maven, RDBMS (Postgresql, Oracle, MySQL), Elastic Search, GIT, Jenkins & Artifactory. Linux, Unix & Shell Scripting

·  3+ years of experience with ESB (such as Talend, Fuse or similar), Rule Engines such as Drools or Ilog, Messaging Systems such as Kafka, Active MQ or Hornetq & API Gateways

·  2+ years developing micro-service architectures using Docker Containers

·  Understanding of data concepts such as Master Data Management, Data Quality & Data Flows preferred

·  Able to define and drive SDLC Practices on a development team

·  Familiarity with security (ACL, Authorization & Authentication) implementations

Business Acumen:

·  Evaluates technology to drive features and roadmaps. Maps technology trends to internal vision.

·  Differentiates buzzwords from value proposition. Embraces technology trends that drive excellence beyond traditional practices (e.g., Test automation in lieu of traditional QA practices)

·  Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders. Recommends a well-researched recommendation of buy vs. build solution

·  Conveys the value proposition for the company by assessing financial risks and gains of decisions and return on investment (ROI)

·  Manages the process of building and maintaining a successful alliance. Understands and successfully applies common analytical techniques, including ROI, SWOT, and Gap analyses

·  Experience in Transportation, Energy, Document Management, ERP, CRM or Back office system integrations & implementations preferred

Leadership:

·  Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences & effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome. Uses experts or other third parties to influence

·  Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success & failures to improve performance and decision-making

·  Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning

·  Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team

Personal Attributes:

·  Able to effectively direct & mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues & design solutions using critical thinking & analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information

·  Influences & energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable

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About Us

GE is the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is anEqual 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.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.