Sr Director Software Engineering

Job Description Summary

• Leading and managing three engineering PODs across geographically distributed teams.• Owning enterprise scale delivery, including readiness for commercialization and ongoing customer deployments.• Driving operational excellence, ensuring CI4OPS is production ready, supportable, and scalable as a long term GEHC platform.• Managing critical path initiatives that directly impact revenue realization and customer success.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Define an integration plan for engineering processes, tooling, and delivery cadence that improves consistency without adding unnecessary overhead.
• Lead cross-team alignment and execution across multiple engineering groups delivering cloud and on-prem releases.
• Partner with Product and Architecture to translate priorities into realistic roadmaps, milestones, and release plans.
• Drive dependency management across teams; identify risks early, remove roadblocks, and escalate with clear options and recommendations.
• Promote consistent engineering quality practices (test strategy, release readiness criteria, defect management) and ensure deliverables meet expectations.
• Ensure security, privacy, and compliance considerations are embedded in delivery practices (e.g., HIPAA/GDPR where applicable).
• Establish a practical operating rhythm for status, risk/issue review, and release readiness reporting to leadership.
• Lead and develop engineering leaders and teams through change; support hiring and talent development as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related STEM field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering managers and teams.
• Experience delivering enterprise software across cloud and on-prem deployment models (release management, deployments/upgrades, customer operations).
• Demonstrated success leading complex cross-team initiatives that require integrating systems, processes, and delivery execution.
• Strong technical fluency in modern engineering practices (CI/CD, automation, observability, reliability, and secure development).
• Proven ability to influence and communicate effectively with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.

Desired Characteristics

• Experience in healthcare IT and/or imaging systems
• Familiarity with interoperability standards and integration concepts (e.g., DICOM, HL7/FHIR concepts, APIs and identity patterns).
• Experience with M&A integration planning and/or technical due diligence.
• Experience leading distributed global teams and working effectively in matrixed environments.
• Knowledge of healthcare security and privacy expectations and regulated software delivery practices.

We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening. For U.S. based positions only, the pay range for this position is $174,800.00-$262,200.00 Annual. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the pay range and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including skills, qualifications, experience and location. In addition, this position may also be eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). GE HealthCare offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, and tuition reimbursement.

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.