Senior Director, Software Engineering

GE HealthCare; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Healthcare seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering in Bengaluru to lead enterprise software engineering across cloud, data, embedded, and platform systems. You will unify practices and AI-enabled engineering tools with DevSecOps, aiming for高度 compliance and faster time-to-market.

The role requires deep hands-on engineering with extensive leadership experience in regulated health software, and the ability to influence across engineering, quality, regulatory, and product teams.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with significant time in regulated health software.
• Proven technical leadership experience at scale in architecture, reliability, or platform engineering.
• Strong ability to influence outcomes across engineering, quality, regulatory, and product teams.
• Experience applying IEC 62304, ISO 14971, IEC 82304-1, and AAMI TIR45 in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise software engineering patterns and reference approaches.
• Shape consistent engineering approaches for services, data, UI, and platform components that embed security, quality, and compliance.
• Advance software reliability engineering (SRE) practices.
• Guide adoption of reliability-focused engineering including SLIs, incident learning, and modern operational practices.
• Translate regulatory expectations into practical team-level engineering methods.
• Ensure engineering teams apply standards in a lightweight, iterative way to improve audit readiness while maintaining velocity.
• Lead the software engineering standardization roadmap and multi-quarter roadmap of capabilities, tools, and skills.
• Bridge AI R&D and Quality & Development Acceleration technical execution with DevSecOps, validation, and QMS expectations.
• Establish enterprise engineering performance measures and deploy metrics for flow, quality, security, and reliability.
• Modernize development environments and CI/CD systems for faster, reliable releases with secure dependency management.
• Uplevel engineering talent through coaching, design reviews, and leadership development.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Regulated health software

CI/CD

SRE practices

AI/ML enablement in engineering

Cross-functional influence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Electrical Engineering or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Overview

Heartbeat is GE HealthCare's proprietary business system, our standard way of working together to deliver on commitments to people, patients, and customers. The Innovation Management System (IMS) strengthens the processes that power our innovation roadmap. The Senior Director, Software Engineering is the enterprise technical leader for modern software engineering and works to unify engineering, practices, and AI enablement into a consistent, scalable, and compliant approach.

This leader combines deep hands-on engineering expertise with strong influence and credibility, constructively challenging norms and inspiring engineers and leaders to adopt common, modern, high-performing ways of developing SaMD, SiMD, platforms, and shared components. Our mission is to improve lives in the moments that matter and to turn ideas into world-changing realities.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise software engineering patterns and reference approaches.
• Shape consistent engineering approaches for services, data, UI, and platform components that embed security, quality, and compliance, enabling faster starts, reduced variability, and improved interoperability across teams.
• Advance software reliability engineering (SRE) practices.
• Guide adoption of reliability-focused engineering including service-level indicators, incident learning, and modern operational practices to improve availability, reduce field defects, and lower operational burden.
• Translate regulatory expectations into practical team-level engineering methods.
• Ensure engineering teams can apply standards such as IEC 62304, ISO 14971, IEC 82304-1, and AAMI TIR45 in a lightweight, iterative way, improving audit readiness while maintaining development velocity.
• Lead the software engineering standardization roadmap and develop a multi-quarter roadmap of engineering capabilities, tools, and skills to ensure predictable adoption and compounding improvement across segments.
• Bridge AI R&D and Quality & Development Acceleration technical execution by aligning AI-enabled engineering tools with DevSecOps, validation, and QMS expectations to accelerate safe AI adoption that improves engineering throughput and reduces non-value-add effort.
• Establish enterprise engineering performance measures by defining and deploying metrics for flow, quality, security, and reliability, enabling visibility from engineering work to business outcomes.
• Modernize development environments and CI/CD systems, advancing consistent development, build, test, and release workflows with secure dependency management and automated evidence generation to shorten cycle time and reduce integration failures.
• Uplevel engineering talent and technical decision-making by providing coaching, design reviews, and guidance that raise engineering maturity and strengthen leadership across segments.
• Strengthen platform reuse and integration quality by promoting consistent interface patterns, API standards, and shared services to minimize duplication and improve speed and reliability.
• Foster a learning-oriented, improvement-driven engineering culture through constructive challenge, data-driven experimentation, and transparent communication.

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field; advanced degree preferred.

Technical Skills

• Deep software engineering background across cloud, data, embedded, or platform systems.
• Fluency with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and secure development practices.
• Strong understanding of applying IEC, ISO, and AAMI standards in regulated environments.
• Ability to simplify complex technical concepts and influence cross-functional engineering decisions.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience with significant time in regulated health software.
• Proven technical leadership experience at scale in architecture, reliability, or platform engineering.
• Strong ability to influence outcomes across engineering, quality, regulatory, and product teams.

Desired Characteristics

• Recognized technical expert with a reputation for pragmatic, scalable engineering solutions.
• Constructively challenges assumptions and drives clarity without friction.
• Experienced mentor of engineering talent and technical leaders.
• Strong business acumen linking engineering choices to customer and financial outcomes.

Inclusion and Diversity

GE Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. 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.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership – always with unyielding integrity.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No