Director of Engineering

Job Description SummaryManagers of people from multiple families within the function. Impacts the team's ability to achieve service, quality and timeliness of objectives. The role is subject to operating policy objectives. There is moderate autonomy within the role. High levels of operational judgment are required to achieve outcomes required.
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Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities:
Lead
Manage team in Bangalore, India fostering collaboration, accountability, ownership, inclusion, continuous learning, knowledge sharing and engineering excellence.
Collaborate with product, program and IB team to align engineering efforts with customer and business objectives.
Define and Execute
Execute engineering programs and strategies enabling AI assisted development, automation, verification to accelerate delivery, improve software quality, and increase engineering productivity.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner closely with product management, program management, quality, regulatory and technology leaders to translate customer needs and feedback into prioritizing engineering outcomes, manage prioritizes and execution.
Work with different GE healthcare businesses at JFWTC and look for opportunities and drive collaboration/reuse between businesses.
Influence
Influence product roadmaps, technical strategy, architecture decisions, and investment priorities by balancing customer value, business objectives, technical sustainability, and engineering excellence.
Leadership & Talent Development
Build and develop engineering leadership and technical talent through hiring, mentoring, and development of engineering managers and technical leaders, while establishing an effective global operating model and consistent engineering standards across regions.
Foster a culture of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration across all levels of the organization, encouraging innovation and continuous learning.
Ensure
Ensure software solutions meet GE HealthCare expectations for customer satisfaction, efficiency, simplicity, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, privacy, and operational excellence.
Communicated
Technology strategy, execution progress, risks, opportunities, recommendations, and business outcomes effectively with executive leadership, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Leadership Attributes:
Effective team and group leader. Recognizes and shapes group dynamic, energy, progress, unproductive/disruptive behavior toward desired goals of session.
Systems thinker; can see patterns and relationships, similarities between programs, projects and interfaces.
Personal Attributes:
Creates a high-functioning team environment where people are motivated, supported, share more, feel more engaged, and ultimately perform better.
Strategic and analytical thinker. Uses critical thinking skills and disciplined approaches to help leaders and leadership teams resolve issues and define solutions. Acts and decides appropriately when all available information may not be possible to obtain. Uses root cause analysis to identify, correct and/or eliminate the causes of problems as well as the problem itself.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity.
Supports the team to drive through risk and ambiguity. Strong bias towards action and delivery. Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal in the face of unfavorable odds and setbacks. Maintains Commitment, Perseverance, Passion as a team role model
Preferably, possesses strong existing domain knowledge of healthcare.
Quality Specific Goals:
Aware of and comply with the GEHC Quality Manual, Quality Management System, Quality Management Policy, Quality Goals, and applicable laws and regulations as they apply to this job type/position
Complete all planned Quality & Compliance training within the defined deadlines
Identify and report any quality or compliance concerns and take immediate corrective action as required
Drive compliance/closure of Regulatory and Quality requirements before approving Design Control FDRs and NPI program milestones
Identify continuous improvement activities by initiating the implementation of process and product quality improvement initiatives
Aware of and comply with the change management work instruction
Develop an open quality culture within the organization that fosters issue discussion and decision-making based on quality and compliance objectives
Educational Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math); MBA or equivalent business experience is plus.
Qualifications/Requirements:
Minimum 10+ years of experience in engineering leadership/management roles, preferably in healthcare, medical devices, or high-growth tech environments handling complex programs or projects.
Experience translating customer feedback into actionable engineering solutions that improve usability, performance, and satisfaction.
Be an active participant of team and look for optimizing engineering practices and improvement opportunities.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to work harmoniously within a team.
Strong software development experience with object-oriented programming languages such as C++ or similar technologies.
Deep understanding of software engineering principles, including object-oriented design, algorithms, data structures, API design, service-oriented architectures, and modern software development practices.
Experience leading engineering teams responsible for complex software products from architecture and design through production deployment and operational support.
Ability to provide technical guidance, evaluate architecture decisions, and drive engineering excellence across teams.
Strong understanding of ultrasound technologies, healthcare workflows, and regulatory environments is highly desirable.
Excellent communication, presentation, strategic thinking, and stakeholder management skills.
Desired Characteristics:
Significant experience leading software engineering organizations, including hiring, developing, mentoring, and retaining engineering managers and technical leaders.
Experience working with globally distributed teams across multiple regions and time zones.
Demonstrated ability to work with technical leadership team to implement product development in global matrix environment
Demonstrated experience on global product releases throughout the entire NPI cycle
Excellent knowledge in engineering, program management and business planning processes having experience with the full product lifecycle.
Self-starter, energizing, results oriented, and able to multi-task
Demonstrated problem solving ability and results orientation
Experience in mobility