Staff Software Engineer

Job Description SummaryThis role will be responsible advanced software development for critical Engineering tools used within GE Aerospace, including coaching and mentoring members of the software team. This role will involve working independently and contributing to the immediate team and to other teams across the business. This role will also lead design discussions, and drive team efficiency through agile/scrum and DevOps methodologies. This role heavily uses the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) software suite, often extending it using product APIs to meet business needs.
Abilities:
Drives software design and implementation of the software roadmap, and drives the team decisions.
Design and develop complex application software code in multiple languages.
Develop reusable code pipelines through CI/CD. Developing and executing integrated test plans.
Coach and mentor to develop team members. Collaborate across the site to leverage and share best practices.Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Identify the scope of the work, provide initial estimate and justify the estimate with facts
• Demonstrate the understanding of Agile software development lifecycle and able to distinguish the core inputs and outputs in each cycle.
• Engage in technical discussions; participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding
• Execute in a fast pace delivery mode and focus in delivering tasks to meet the product release goal
• Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation
• Seek and provide feedback on design and development
• Demonstrate the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment
• Understand whole product, its modules and the interrelationship between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module
• Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules
• Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.
• Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
• Drive design reviews, define interfaces between code modules, and applies existing technology to designs
• Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices
• Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and has the ability to implement them using language of choice
• 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 technologies and infrastructure
• Provide guidance to a team of 5 to 7 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
•Write code that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project

Qualifications/Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with advanced experience.

Desired Characteristics

• Significant experience with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM), Engineering Workflow Manager (EWM), Engineering Test Manager (ETM), and Engineering Requirements Manager (ERM).
• Experience using the API’s and security model within those tools. 
• Experience with IBM DOORS Classic.
• Understanding of cybersecurity, Aerospace (DO-178), CMMC, and/or Export Control regulations.
• Advanced Jenkins automation or other CI/CD experience. 
• 2+ years of scrum/agile experience. Advanced JAVA development experience. Strong communication skills.
• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed
• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker

Soft Skills:

•Change Agent - Proactively learns new tools and integrates new methods to drive improved outcomes. Identifies and assesses new technologies that can add value and capability to GE. Builds rapport with the team and gets buy-in for ideas. Drives stakeholder understanding and acceptance of new ideas in their business. Participates in change programs by planning implementation activities with other change champions. Implements monitoring and feedback systems.

•Collaboration - Establishes & communicates team members' roles in relation to their function and data. Shares knowledge, power and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill. Coordinates role responsibilities with that of others to achieve mutual goals. Encourages groups to work together to resolve problems. Proactively coaches and/or mentors others to improve their contribution to the team. Fosters relationship building between team members and those outside the team. Works with others to achieve goals without regard to band/title. Identifies gaps in roles on teams, and is recognized for growing and distributing talent pools across the organization.

•Comfort in Ambiguity - Identifies when additional information is needed from customer/manager/stakeholder and asks relevant questions to obtain it. Delivers solution(s) where additional information may not be needed or available, while clearly stating any underlying assumptions. Communicates status. Evaluates data sets to determine possible value or steps to create value.

•Communication - Adjusts information (e.g. level of complexity) and story to align with audience. Produces functional area information in sufficient detail for cross-functional teams to utilize, using presentation and storytelling concepts. Informs stakeholders of customer issues, identifies potential problems or conflicts and resolves them when necessary. Explains the story of the rationale and benefit of their ideas. Uses relevant and appropriate presentation techniques. Responds to questions and dissent in a constructive manner. Acknowledges limitations of one’s own knowledge.

•Consulting - Provides options and counsel. Drives dialogues that produce new perspectives and substantial innovation, enhancements and analysis of consequences. Consults on projects to fit systems or infrastructure, and project goals to their function, and vice versa. Provides risk-assessed options in relation to process enhancement and professional expertise. Consults on data or data infrastructure development projects and identifies when necessary to modify the solution.

•Curiosity/Creativity - Connects ideas and solutions from a broad array of sources (e.g., what other businesses are doing, brainstorming with others). Pilots new ideas and processes that have not been utilized before.

•Decision Making & Risk Management - Analyzes and interprets business strategy, policies, values, complex data patterns and relationships to make decisions regardless of incomplete and conflicting information and uncertain consequences. Makes benchmarked and researched recommendations with contingency plans in place for potential adverse consequences; takes responsibility for consequences of decision/risk. Lobbies business partners and subject matter experts for consensus in taking action that sets direction in at least one critical business function.

•Influence - Ensures group understanding of issues and presents rationale to affect outcomes. Resolves conflicting opinions through consensus. Uses appropriate facilitation techniques to gain agreement or move others to action.

•Problem Solving - Identifies future roadblocks and promotes data-based problem solving. Assesses & prioritizes problems in relation to organizational goals. Coordinates team's work and performance with broader organizational objectives and manages conflicts between them. Advises others in how to solve difficult problems.

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