Senior Director, Software Engineering

GE HealthCare · Bengaluru

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Job Description

Senior Director of Software Engineering – Computed Tomography (CT)

Location: Bangalore, India

Reports to: VP of Software Engineering - CT

Team size: ~120 software engineers

Travel: ~20–25% international travel to global CT R&D sites, customer sites, and leadership forums

Role Summary

We are looking for a visionary, hands-on software leader to head our CT Software Engineering organization in Bangalore. In this role, you will shape how our CT software turns clinical and operational challenges into innovative, reliable solutions that help radiologists and technologists scan faster, see more clearly, reduce patient dose, and deliver better patient outcomes.

You will lead a team of approximately 120 engineers, setting the technical vision, building world-class software engineering practices, and accelerating the speed at which we move from idea to validated product, all within the rigor required of a regulated medical device environment. As a key part of the global CT Software organization, you will bring a global mindset, working seamlessly with CT teams and partners around the world while establishing Bangalore as a center of excellence for CT software innovation.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Leadership and Vision

• Define and communicate a multi-year software vision and strategy for the Bangalore CT organization, aligned with global CT business priorities, product roadmaps, and customer needs.
• Translate business objectives into clear engineering goals, measurable outcomes, and investment priorities.
• Develop and drive strategic initiatives that improve engineering productivity, product quality, and time-to-market.
• Anticipate technology and industry trends in CT and position the organization to take advantage of them.

2. Customer-Centric Innovation

• Champion a deep understanding of customer pain points by engaging directly with radiologists, CT technologists, service teams, and hospital IT and operations stakeholders.
• Partner with Product Management, Clinical, Applications, and UX teams to turn unmet customer needs into differentiated software solutions, for example simpler scan workflows, faster and more consistent exams, lower dose, better image quality, higher system uptime, and smarter automation.
• Build an innovation pipeline that balances near-term customer improvements with longer-term breakthrough capabilities.
• Encourage rapid experimentation through prototypes, proofs of concept, hackathons, and customer pilots to validate ideas early and often.

3. Innovation Speed and R&D Execution

• Oversee end-to-end delivery of CT software programs, including innovation projects, new product introductions (NPIs), design changes, sustaining engineering, and field actions.
• Ensure programs are delivered with high quality, on schedule, and within budget, with predictable and transparent execution.
• Increase innovation velocity by shortening feedback loops, reducing cycle time, and removing organizational and technical bottlenecks, without compromising safety or compliance.
• Use metrics such as DORA metrics, lead time, defect escape rate, and customer-reported issues to drive data-informed decisions and continuous improvement.
• Identify and manage key delivery risks and cross-site dependencies proactively.

4. World-Class Software Engineering Practices

• Establish and continuously raise the bar on engineering excellence, including code quality, design reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and release management.
• Lead the adoption of modern engineering practices and tools, including test automation, simulation and virtual scanner environments, infrastructure as code, observability, and AI-assisted development, adapted for a regulated environment.
• Provide leadership on Lean and Agile principles at scale; coach teams on estimation, work sizing, backlog health, and flow efficiency.
• Benchmark the organization against industry leaders and drive a roadmap toward best-in-class engineering maturity.

5. Quality, Safety, and Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure all software activities comply with applicable medical device regulations and standards, and relevant cybersecurity requirements.
• Build quality and compliance into everyday engineering workflows so that they support speed rather than slow it down.
• Partner with Quality, Regulatory, and Systems Engineering leaders to ensure CT products meet compliance, controllership, radiation safety, and patient safety standards.
• Ensure audit readiness and lead the organization's response to software-related CAPAs, field issues, and regulatory inquiries.

6. Technical Standards, Architecture, and Platforms

• Partner with global system architects and cross-functional leaders to define future CT technology platforms that are scalable, secure, interoperable, and reusable across product lines.
• Drive platform thinking and modular design to reduce duplication, speed up new feature delivery, and lower total cost of ownership.

7. Global Leadership and Collaboration

• Lead the Bangalore CT software organization as an integral part of the global CT software team, with a "one team" mindset built on trust, shared goals, and seamless collaboration across geographies, cultures, and time zones.
• Represent the Bangalore CT organization in global leadership forums and strengthen its visibility and impact across the business.
• Work closely with global partners in Product Management, Systems Engineering, Hardware, Detector and Physics, Clinical, Service, Manufacturing, Quality, and Regulatory.

8. Talent Management and Culture

• Attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent in a highly competitive market.
• Build strong technical and functional leadership benches, organizational models, and succession plans.
• Create an inclusive, high-performance culture built on ownership, curiosity, psychological safety, and continuous learning.
• Develop clear technical and managerial career paths, and mentor emerging leaders and senior technical experts.

9. Engineering Operations and Finances

• Own and manage the Bangalore CT software engineering budget, headcount, and resource allocation.
• Explore and implement alternative resourcing models, such as partners, vendors, and centers of excellence, to scale capacity and accelerate innovation.
• Use portfolio and project management tools to track progress, report status, and highlight key risks.
• Drive cost efficiency and productivity improvements while protecting investment in innovation.

10. Stakeholder Engagement and Communication

• Present regular updates on strategy, progress, and risks to executive sponsors, global CT leadership, and customers.
• Align stakeholders on priorities, timelines, and trade-offs; resolve conflicting priorities through proactive and transparent communication.
• Ensure data, process, and system changes are implemented in line with project objectives and timelines.

11. Thought Leadership and Knowledge Sharing

• Act as a recognized technical and leadership voice inside the company and in the wider industry, including conferences, publications, and industry and academic partnerships.
• Share technical, procedural, and business knowledge to raise the capability of the broader organization.
• Encourage the creation of learning content, internal tech talks, communities of practice, and patents and invention disclosures.

Education Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. A Master's degree or other advanced degree is preferred.

Required Skills:

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, including the design and development of complex, scalable software systems.
• 5+ years leading large software organizations (100+ engineers), including leaders of leaders.
• Proven experience working in and with globally distributed teams across multiple countries and cultures.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering innovative products that solved real customer problems and created measurable business impact.
• Experience working with regulatory compliance in the medical devices industry or another highly regulated industry.

Skills and Competencies:

• Strategic thinking with the ability to connect technology choices to customer value and business outcomes.
• Customer focus, with a habit of grounding decisions in direct customer insight.
• Global mindset, with cultural agility and a proven ability to build cohesive teams across borders.
• Bias for speed and action, balanced with sound judgment on quality, safety, and risk.
• Deep knowledge of modern software development methodologies, architecture, and tools.
• Strong program and portfolio management, organizational, and financial skills.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and executive presence, with the ability to explain complex technical topics to diverse audiences.
• Ability to inspire, coach, and build high-performing teams and future leaders.lex problems.

Inclusion and Diversity:

GE Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, 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 behaviours: to 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.

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