Senior Software Engineering Manager Home Energy

The Role

The Senior Software Engineering Manager forthe GM Home Energyteamis responsible forsetting the technical and organizational direction and leading multiple engineering teamsthat deliver new and innovative software solutions for the GM Energy business domain including GM Home Energy and related programs.

They will own delivery for highimpact customer and partner experiences across mobile web integrations and data services that power capabilities such as energy program enrollment home energy management leasing and sales workflows partner integrations and grid/DER engagement platforms.

The ideal candidate has:

• A strong background in software architecture and engineering for cloud-native data-intensive systems.

• Deep experience integrating across enterprise and external ecosystems (utilities installers OEM systems).

• A proventrack recordof building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations.

Our engineers work in highly collaborative environments across UX mobile web data streaming and custom rules/decisioning engines. Weregularly workoncutting-edgecloud technologies and invent new integration and engagement patterns along the way.

Leading highly technical teams through the full software development lifecycle using industry best practices is paramount in this role.

Key Responsibilities

Technology & Delivery Leadership

• Define and drive the technical strategy and execution roadmap forHomeEnergy platforms (mobile apps web portals APIs event streams and data services) in support of GM Energyobjectives.

• Be a technology expert across software architecture infrastructure build anddeploymentpipelines observability and engineering processes for multiple teams.

• Lead the delivery of exceptional secure and resilient software using multiple languages and technologies (e.g. modern web/mobile stacks cloud-native services event streaming dataplatforms).

• Ensure your teams meet or exceed reliability performance security and compliance expectations for customer-facing and partner-facing energy products.

Org & People Leadership

• Build lead andretainmultiple high-performing engineering teams (e.g. mobile full-stack data/integration) aligned to Energy Engagement business outcomes.

• Mentor and develop technical talentfrom new college hires to senior/staff engineers and first-line managerscreating clear growth paths and succession plans.

• Own workforce planning and staffing decisions for your area in partnership with HR aligned tooverallorg plans and GMs strategic priorities.

• Foster a culture of ownership psychological safety accountability and continuous learning that turns challenging ambiguous ideas into robust production solutions.

Cross-Functional & Business Partnership

• Partner closely with product management design GM Energy business stakeholders and otherinternal and externalengineering organizationstoalign onpriorities scope and value delivery.

• Have a broad enterprise-wide view of the business and strong appreciation for strategy processes capabilities enablers and governance acrossbusiness domains

• Actively manage dependencies with upstream and downstream systems and resolve cross-team impediments quickly.

Execution Excellence

• Establish andmaintainengineering metrics and KPIs (e.g. delivery throughput quality reliability adoption) that directly contribute to GMs strategic and GM Energy program goals.

• Champion agile practices (Scrum/Kanban CI/CD trunk-based development automated testing feature flags) and ensure consistent execution across teams.

• Drive architectural decisions that balance speed quality and long-term maintainability including use of Azure services event streaming (Azure Event Hub Kafka Pulsar) caching (Redis) and data modeling best practices.

• Ensure adherence to security privacy regulatory and safety expectations across all Energy Engagement software solutions working with platform security and compliance partners as needed.

Change Leadership & Innovation

• Demonstrate managerial courage to challenge the status quo simplify complex systems and define creative solutions in a rapidly evolving energy and EV ecosystem.

• Champion change management intheorg and leading teams through organizational technology and business transitions (e.g. new program launches platform migrations cost management initiatives).

• Scan industry trends in energy grid services DER management and customer engagement platforms and translate them into actionable technology and product opportunities for GM Energy.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelors degree in computer science Software Engineering Electrical/Computer Engineering or related technical field or equivalent experience.

• 12 years of experience developing and deliveringcutting-edgeenterprise-grade applications including cloud-native systems. At least3 of those years should include leading multiple teams or a large complex team as a software engineering manager or equivalent.

• Demonstrated experience leading engineering organizations ofroughly 1020 engineers (ICs and/or managers) including hiring performance management coaching and organizational design.

• Strong hands-on background in building sophisticated scalable secure software systems on cloud platforms (preferably Azure) including experience with:

• Event streaming and messaging (Azure Event Hub Kafka Pulsar).

• Caching technologies (Redis).

• Modern web and/or mobile stacks and REST/GraphQLAPIs.

• Demonstrated expert knowledge of modern software development practices (Agile/Scrum SDLC CI/CD test automation observability).

• Proven ability tofacilitateproductive engagement and trade-off decisions between engineering product design and business stakeholders.

• Track recordof delivering complex integrated solutions in an interconnected environment ideally involving CRM billing data platforms or external partner integrations (e.g. utilities installers grid partners).

• Excellent communication and storytelling skills capable of switching between executive-level discussions and deep technical reviews.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• 5years of experience managing multiple engineering teams and/or managers in a high-growth or transformational environment.

• Experience delivering customer-facing products in one or more of the following domains:

• Energy management DER/solar/storage grid services or utilities.

• EV charging home energy integration or connected vehicle platforms.

• Expertisein drivingnumerousprojects across business and IT portfolios simultaneously; demonstrable ability to sequence and de-risk a multi-quarter roadmap.

• Experience coaching and training technical staff on new and emerging technologies (e.g. event-driven architectures data platforms AI/ML-powered engagement experimentation platforms).

• Strong experience with database modeling and data structure principles including designing scalable schemas for event/data hubs and analytical use cases.