Software Engineer Manager-PDB Document Management

Job Description

The Role :

The Software Engineering Manager for the Document Management space is part of the Product Development Business Solutions team within our Global VEQ (Vehicle Engineering & Quality IT) organization at General Motors. This leadership role is responsible for developing software applications that support the document management and timekeeping functions for the Global Vehicle Development Process (GVDP) organization.

You will lead, guide and direct a large group of technical employees responsible for engineering deliverables in support of the organization's business objectives.

In addition, you will guide development teams to raise the bar on user experience, on quality, and on performance. Responsible for planning, coordinating, and clearly communicating project details to all stakeholders. Your role involves encouraging innovation within your teams, allowing them to explore new ideas and technologies. You are expected to touch and contribute at every level of the technology stack, including large-scale real-time data processing, high performance API services. You will work with autonomous teams - all of whom love to get their hands dirty, develop new products and tools while keeping an eye on the overall system’s quality, performance, and scalability.

What You'll Do (Responsibilities) :

• Be an effective people manager, bringing out the best performance from your team, as well as be a highly technical hands on coder in the team.
• Developing enterprise-grade applications using Kubernetes / Docker, Quarkus, Java, Angular, and PostgreSQL, among other tools.
• Define and lead the software strategy for new technologies, highly complex features, and drive the next generation Global Inventory Platform
• Capable of hosting technical discussions, being a subject matter expert, and having strategic influence.
• Leads comprehensive design analysis of design solution.
• Own and drive complex technical projects from the planning stage through execution.
• Create a team environment that encourages innovation and continuous learning.
• Provide career development opportunities, maintain an ongoing constructive feedback loop, and inspire innovation and technical growth through hands-on mentoring and encouragement for your team members.
• Balance the adoption of new technologies with practical, efficient solutions.
• Will run the day to day software development lifecycle, like running daily standup, eliminating roadblocks
• Keep up with technological advancements and AI innovation to integrate them to enhance our engineering practices and drive efficiency
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, program managers, SRE and other teams to align technological development with business goals and user needs.
• Actively participate in the planning and scope definition for team projects, supporting Product Owners and Program Managers to deliver high-quality software on time.
• Lead the culture within their team, holds themselves and others accountable for demonstrating GMs values and modeling GM behaviors.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications) :

People Skills :

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications) :

Company Vehicle : Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate.

Note : program participants are required to purchase / lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

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GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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