Software Engineer Manager- ECM Development

Job Description

The Role:

The Software Engineering Manager for ECM (Engineering Change Management) is part of the Product Development Business Solutions within our Global VEQ (Vehicle Engineering & Quality IT) organization at General Motors. This leadership role is responsible for developing software applications that support the product development business process spanning the vehicle development cycle. You will lead guide and direct a large group of technical employees responsible for engineering deliverables in support of the organizations business objectives.

In addition you will guide development teams to raise the bar on user experience on quality and on performance. Responsible for planning coordinating and clearly communicating project details to all stakeholders. Your role involves encouraging innovation within your teams allowing them to explore new ideas and technologies. You are expected to touch and contribute at every level of the technology stack including large-scale real-time data processing high performance API services. You will work with autonomous teams - all of whom love to get their hands dirty develop new products and tools while keeping an eye on the overall systems quality performance and scalability.

What Youll Do (Responsibilities):

• Be an effective people manager bringing out the best performance from your team as well as be a highly technical hands on coder in the team.
• Developing enterprise-grade applications using Kubernetes/Docker Quarkus Java Angular and PostgreSQL among other tools.
• Define and lead the software strategy for new technologies highly complex features and drive the next generation Global Inventory Platform
• Capable of hosting technical discussions being a subject matter expert and having strategic influence.
• Leads comprehensive design analysis of design solution.
• Own and drive complex technical projects from the planning stage through execution.
• Create a team environment that encourages innovation and continuous learning.
• Provide career development opportunities maintain an ongoing constructive feedback loop and inspire innovation and technical growth through hands-on mentoring and encouragement for your team members.
• Balance the adoption of new technologies with practical efficient solutions.
• Will run the day to day software development lifecycle like running daily standup eliminating roadblocks
• Keep up with technological advancements and AI innovation to integrate them to enhance our engineering practices and drive efficiency
• Collaborate with product managers designers program managers SRE and other teams to align technological development with business goals and user needs.
• Actively participate in the planning and scope definition for team projects supporting Product Owners and Program Managers to deliver high-quality software on time.
• Lead the culture within their team holds themselves and others accountable for demonstrating GMs values and modeling GM behaviors.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering or a related technical field
• 10 years of experience in software development
• 3 years leading technical projects
• At least 3 years experience as a people leader
• Strong technical background in JAVA Relational and no SQL Databases (Postgres Elastic Oracle) Messaging systems (Kafka pulsar rabbit MQ) GitHub Actions
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor software development teams in an agile environment

People Skills:

• Excellent communication interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Experience with cloud platform and services

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):

• 5 years people leadership experience.
• Experience in the automotive industry
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate.

Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

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