Senior Director, Software Engineering

I00M05 Wipro GE Healthcare Private Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Career opportunities

Job summary

I00M05 Wipro GE Healthcare Private Limited is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead the enterprise technical direction and unify engineering practices. This role demands deep engineering expertise and the ability to influence teams in a regulated environment.

The ideal candidate will have over 12 years in software engineering, strong familiarity with compliance standards, and proven mentorship abilities. Join a culture that fosters innovation and collaboration!

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, especially in regulated health software.
• Deep engineering background across cloud, data, embedded, or platform systems.
• Ability to influence cross-functional engineering decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise software engineering patterns.
• Shape engineering approaches for services, data, UI, and platform components.
• Lead the software engineering standardization roadmap.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud systems

CI/CD

Regulatory standards

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

CI/CD tools

Observability tools

Job description

Job Description Summary

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. This role works in close partnership with the Senior Director, Software Development Practices Transformation and the Enterprise AI R&D Product Director to unify engineering, practices, and AI‑enablement into a consistent, scalable, and compliant approach. The 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.

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, guiding adoption of reliability‑focused engineering including service‑level indicators, incident learning, and modern operational practices.
• Translate regulatory expectations into practical team‑level engineering methods, ensuring teams can apply standards such as IEC 62304, ISO 14971, IEC 82304‑1, and AAMI TIR45 in a lightweight, iterative way.
• Lead the software engineering standardization roadmap by developing and sequencing a multi‑quarter roadmap of engineering capabilities, tools, and skills.
• Bridge AI R&D and Quality & Development Acceleration technical execution, aligning AI‑enabled engineering tools with DevSecOps, validation, and QMS expectations.
• Establish enterprise engineering performance measures, defining and deploying metrics for flow, quality, security, and reliability.
• Modernize development environments and CI/CD systems, advancing consistent development, build, test, and release workflows with secure dependency management and automated evidence generation.
• Uplevel engineering talent and technical decision‑making through coaching, design reviews, and technical guidance that raise engineering maturity and consistency.
• Strengthen platform reuse and integration quality by promoting consistent interface patterns, API standards, and shared services that minimize duplication.
• Foster a learning‑oriented, improvement‑driven engineering culture that models constructive challenge, data‑driven experimentation, and transparent communication.

Qualifications

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

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.

Benefits

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.

Relocation

Relocation Assistance Provided: No.