Job Description Summary
Responsible for operating in lock-step with infrastructure teams to create a clear strategic direction for development needs and partners with technical and operations experts to drive implementation of new requirements and refinement of existing infrastructure landscape. You will direct the team with a clear and descriptive set of requirements and partner with the team to determine what can be delivered through balancing the need for new features, defects, and technical debt. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders: Product Managers, Infrastructure Teams, Technical Anchors, Product Owners, and Operations Teams.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities:
In this role, you will:
- Understand infrastructure landscape for PaaS environments (AWS / Azure) and map out future alignment to new infrastructure standards and landing zones
- Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
- Works with cross-functional teams to deliver infrastructure roadmaps and roadmaps for related
- Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.
- Routinely collaborates with Architecture, Engineering, and Operations teams on multiple issues and decisions.
- Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
- Demonstrates expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
- Owns roadmaps for MVPs, Standard Offerings, and Vitality
- Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
- Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer and internal stakeholder problems and needs.
- Demonstrates strategic expert level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
- Responsible for project management of execution team's workload
- Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 4 years of professional experience OR Associates degree with minimum of 7 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 9 years of professional experience
- Minimum 3 years of professional experience in PAAS support.
Eligibility Requirement:
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.
Desired Skills:
Technical Expertise:
- Strong knowledge of infrastructure (On-Prem and multi-Cloud)
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Demonstrates knowledge on technical topics such as AWS / Azure, containers, compliance, monitoring, availability, scalability, and security
Business Acumen:
- Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
- Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
- Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
- Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team.
- Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment
Leadership:
- Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.
- Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making.
- Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.
Personal Attributes:
- Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
- Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
- Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.
For Candidates in the US:
The salary range for this position is $127,700 - $213,200. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate's experience, their education, and the work location. In addition, this position is eligible for a performance bonus/variable incentive plan.
GE provides a comprehensive benefits package that provides access to plans which support the overall wellbeing of our employees and their dependents. These benefits include, but are not limited to, healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision, pharmacy), a retirement plan that includes Company Retirement Savings and a 401K with Company matching, Life Insurance options, Disability coverage, paid time-off, EAP, and more.
Additional Information
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE 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.
GE 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).
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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