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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.
Job Responsibility:
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
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
10+ years of experience in software development
3+ years leading technical projects
At least 3 years experience as a people leader
Strong technical background in JAVA, Relational and no SQL Databases (Postgres, Elastic, Oracle), Messaging systems (Kafka, pulsar, rabbit MQ), GitHub Actions
Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor software development teams in an agile environment
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills
Experience with cloud platform and services
Nice to have:
5+ years people leadership experience
Experience in the automotive industry
Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
What we offer:
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