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Senior Director of Software Engineering

GE HealthCare


Job Location:

Bellevue, WA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 228160 - 342240
Posted: 11 September 2026 (2 days ago)
Application Deadline: 9 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description Summary
The Senior Director Software Engineering will lead a globally distributed software engineering organization across the US India and Poland setting technical direction and delivering scalable software solutions that create meaningful customer and business value. This role combines technical and organizational leadership across software architecture engineering practices AI-enabled development and complex software platforms. The leader will partner across Product Management Program Management clinical teams business stakeholders and technology organizations to translate customer needs into engineering outcomes while balancing innovation delivery quality cybersecurity regulatory compliance privacy and operational excellence.

Job Description

Responsibilities
  • Lead a globally distributed software engineering organization across the US India and Poland fostering collaboration accountability ownership inclusion continuous learning knowledge sharing and engineering excellence.
  • Define and execute an AI-first engineering strategy using AI-assisted development automation modern engineering practices and emerging technologies to accelerate delivery improve software quality and increase engineering productivity.
  • Establish technical standards software architecture principles engineering practices and development methodologies that enable scalable secure reliable maintainable and extensible software solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership for complex software platforms spanning cloud edge computing distributed systems data analytics and intelligent capabilities guiding architecture and technical direction through strong software engineering and system design principles.
  • Lead engineering execution across the full software development lifecycle from requirements and architecture through development release deployment and operational support while advancing cloud-native development DevSecOps automation continuous integration continuous delivery and quality engineering practices.
  • Partner with Product Management Program Management clinical teams Quality Security Regulatory business stakeholders and technology leaders to translate customer needs and feedback into prioritized engineering outcomes manage dependencies resolve technical trade-offs and drive adoption and measurable business value.
  • Influence product roadmaps technical strategy architecture decisions and investment priorities by balancing customer value business objectives technical sustainability and engineering excellence.
  • Build and develop engineering leadership and technical talent through hiring mentoring and development of engineering managers and technical leaders while establishing an effective global operating model and consistent engineering standards across regions.
  • Ensure software solutions meet GE HealthCare expectations for customer satisfaction efficiency stability extensibility simplicity cybersecurity regulatory compliance privacy and operational excellence.
  • Communicate technology strategy execution progress risks opportunities recommendations and business outcomes effectively with executive leadership customers and cross-functional stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
Education & Experience
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related STEM field.
  • 10 years of software engineering experience including designing developing and delivering scalable software platforms and enterprise applications.
Software Engineering & Architecture
  • Strong software development experience with object-oriented programming languages such as C Java or similar technologies.
  • Proven experience designing and delivering distributed systems cloud-based services edge computing solutions and scalable software architectures.
  • Deep understanding of software engineering principles including object-oriented design algorithms data structures API design service-oriented architectures and modern software development practices.
  • Experience leading engineering teams responsible for complex software products from architecture and design through production deployment and operational support.
  • Ability to provide technical guidance evaluate architecture decisions and drive engineering excellence across teams.
Leadership & Collaboration
  • Significant experience leading software engineering organizations including hiring developing mentoring and retaining engineering managers and technical leaders.
  • Experience leading globally distributed teams across multiple regions and time zones.
  • Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Product Management Program Management Quality Security Regulatory and business stakeholders.
  • Strong ability to influence without authority build alignment and drive execution across complex organizations.

Why Join GE HealthCare

Shape the future of software engineering at GE HealthCare by leading global engineering teams advancing AI-first engineering practices influencing technical direction and delivering innovative software solutions that improve outcomes for patients providers and healthcare systems worldwide.

GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. 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 $228160.00-$342240.00 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 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.

Additional Information

GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

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.

Relocation Assistance Provided: No


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GE HealthCare provides digital infrastructure, data analytics & decision support tools helps in diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of patients

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