Senior Director, Cloud Software Engineering

At GE Appliances a Haier company we come together to make good things for the fastest-growing appliance company in the U.S. were powered by creators thinkers and makers who believe that anything is possible and that theres always a better believe in the power of our people and in giving them the freedom to explore discover and build good things together.

The GE Appliances philosophy backed by three simple commitments defines the way we work invent create do business and serve our communities:we come togetherwe always look for a better way andwe create possibilities.

Interested in joining us on our journey

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How Youll Create Possibilities

Strategy & Architecture

• Define and lead the multi-year cloud software engineering strategy for GE Appliances connected ecosystem and SmartHQ platform.
• Own the overall technical direction architecture and engineering standards for cloud platforms shared services and customer-facing cloud capabilities.
• Shape long-term cloud services and multi-cloud strategies aligned to business goals growth priorities and platform resiliency needs.
• Partner with cloud providers and key stakeholders to evolve scalable secure and resilient cloud capabilities for connected appliances.

Engineering Execution & Operations

• Lead the delivery and operation of production cloud systems that support connected appliance experiences and business priorities.
• Drive strong engineering execution through roadmap planning prioritization budgeting resource allocation and software quality standards.
• Own cloud platform scalability resilience observability incident response and continuous service improvement.
• Lead the strategy for disaster recovery failover high availability multi-region resiliency and cloud SLA performance.
• Ensure the organization delivers with speed quality and operational discipline across both platform and feature development.

People Leadership

• Lead coach and develop a high-performing organization of managers technical leaders and engineers.
• Ensure the team is appropriately structured staffed and aligned to current and future business needs.
• Build an inclusive high-accountability culture focused on collaboration talent development and operational excellence.
• Drive strong talent practices across hiring performance management development planning and succession planning.

Cross-Functional Partnership & Innovation

• Partner closely with embedded software mobile app architecture security and business teams to deliver end-to-end connected experiences across device app and cloud.
• Enable next-generation connected appliance capabilities through strong execution and close partnership across software teams and business stakeholders.
• Support new digital service opportunities through scalable cloud platforms APIs and modern connected capabilities.
• Leverage AI to improve engineering productivity enable agentic workflows and drive the development and production deployment of scalable AI-enabled capabilities and experiences.

What Youll Bring to Our Team

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent experience.
• 15 years of experience in software engineering cloud engineering infrastructure architecture or related technical leadership roles with increasing scope and responsibility.
• 5 years of experience leading software engineering organizations at the Director level or equivalent including experience leading global teams and/or leaders of leaders.
• Demonstrated success leading teams that build and operate enterprise-scale cloud systems.
• Broad cloud platform experience with AWS and GCP preferred ideally in IoT or connected product environments.
• Experience developing cloud strategy technical roadmaps and multi-cloud approaches that support short- and long-term business goals.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI throughout the software development life cycle to drive innovation engineering productivity and software quality including hands-on leadership in designing agentic workflows applying AI agents to engineering and business processes and building scaling and deploying AI-enabled applications into secure reliable production environments.
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders align cross-functional teams and lead transformational change across multiple functions.
• Strong operational mindset including experience with production systems reliability resiliency and service performance.
• Experience driving engineering excellence through modern software development practices strong technical leadership and metrics-driven decision making.
• Strong communication leadership and problem-solving skills with the ability to connect technical strategy to business outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in consumer IoT connected home smart appliance or similar device-to-cloud ecosystems.
• Experience leading organizations responsible for cloud infrastructure platform services and cloud feature engineering.
• Experience supporting SaaS subscription digital service or data monetization models.
• Experience leading teams through digital transformation and operating in Agile environments; familiarity with Waterfall is also valuable.
• Experience building organizations and technical platforms that support rapid innovation while maintaining strong operational reliability.

Working Conditions

• Normal office environment.
• Occasional evening and/or weekend work may be required.

Our Culture

Our work is centered on our People and Culture as reflected in our Zero Distance philosophy and we recognize the importance of reaffirming our commitment to inclusion and diversity (I&D). This underscores our commitment to fostering an environment where every individual feels valued connected and empowered to contribute while positioning our organization to adapt seamlessly to the evolving needs of our workforce and communities.

This reflects our dedication to creating solutions that: Empower colleagues by fostering an environment where all voices are heard valued and encouraged to contribute. Strengthen communities where we live and work. Reinforce a culture of belonging purpose and engagement. Reflect the diversity of the communities we serve through our workforce products and practices.

By further embedding Zero Distance into our People and Culture framework we will continue to build a deeply connected organization. We are cultivating a culture of engagement belonging and connection because while attracting new talent remains a priority retention is a cornerstone of our strategy.

GE Appliances is a trust-based organization. It is important we offer our employees the flexibility they need to do their best work while balancing the needs of the business and individuals. When you join GE Appliances you will have the opportunity to work with your leader to create a flexible work arrangement that balances the needs of the individual team and organization.

GE Appliances is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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