Senior Director, Software Development Practices Transformation

Job Description SummaryHeartbeat is GE HealthCare’s proprietary business system, our standard way of working together to deliver on our commitments to people, patients and customers. Our vision is to accelerate innovation as part of GE HealthCare’s Heartbeat, empowering every team to continuously improve, solve challenges, and create meaningful outcomes for patients and customers. The Innovation Management System (IMS) leads this transformation by defining, developing, deploying, and strengthening the processes that power our Innovation Roadmap. We unlock the full capability of GE HealthCare by identifying the best ways of working across the enterprise and elevating them into adaptable standards that drive lasting impact.
As Director, Digital Development Acceleration, you will scale and operationalize modern software development practices across GE HealthCare, with a special focus on SaMD and SiMD. You will guide a cross-functional Steering Committee, partner with external consultants, and convert pilot learnings into durable, enterprise-wide standards. You will ensure our digital New Product Introduction (NPI) process delivers speed with safety by aligning design controls, PRD, and release practices to industry norms while meeting the unique needs of GE Healthcare’s regulated medical software.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Drive the evolution of software development practices as part of the IronMan acquisition, and beyond the Ironman pilot. Embed standardized processes, scalable capabilities, and modern tools across every GE HealthCare segment, ultimately improving quality and velocity across the company’s entire new‑product pipeline.
• Serve as the day-to-day leader for the software development Steering Committee, orchestrating priorities, decisions, and communications across engineering, quality, regulatory, product management, and commercial teams.  Strengthens organizational alignment by delivering clear, timely communications that enable leaders to understand strategic direction and progress, while ensuring the wider organization is aware of key objectives and outcomes.
• Define and deploy a medtech-adapted DORA metric stack to measure software performance and flow, with targets that include critical security and quality patches released in under 10 days where applicable.
• Establish a process-agile PRD approach that supports iterative learning cycles, clear scope control, and traceability to user and clinical needs.
• Operationalize a process-agile QMS guided by AAMI TIR45 for SaMD and SiMD, aligning design controls and documentation with lean, risk-based software practices.
• Stand up the capabilities and tooling ecosystem that enables continuous integration, automated testing, secure DevOps, SBOM and vulnerability management, and compliant release orchestration.
• Act as the overall technical liaison for continuity across segments and platforms, ensuring architectural coherence, reuse, and integration quality.
• Drive engagement with all teams and stakeholders, facilitating adoption through coaching, office hours, playbooks, and communities of practice.
• Guide portfolio planning and the digital NPI process so that release cadences and decision points enable timely, industry-standard delivery while preserving patient safety and regulatory compliance.
• First 12 months will be 100% dedicated to IronMan Integration activities only.
• Own the plan to extend outcomes beyond the consultant engagement and beyond the IronMan pilot to sustained enterprise adoption, including change management, training, and governance.

The digital NPI process will explicitly support multiple software pathways:

• New platforms or offerings
• Enhancements to a current platform or offering
• Minor changes and bug fixes
• Horizontal development for components that are regulatory cleared but not sold independently

Essential Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years in software development for medical devices or regulated health software, including SaMD and SiMD experience.
• Demonstrated mastery of modern software development life cycles and DevSecOps, including CI/CD, automated testing, and release management in regulated contexts.
• Previous experience as a lead software integrator or architect on major GE HealthCare NPIs, with hands-on understanding of segment-specific architectures and constraints.
• People leadership experience managing software engineering teams and cross-functional program leadership across quality, regulatory, clinical, and product management.
• Proven ability to drive enterprise-scale change through standards, governance, and coaching, with measurable improvements in flow, quality, and reliability.
• Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills across executive, technical, and field audiences.

Desired Characteristics

• Thought leader who can scale initial Steering Committee and consultant progress into full enterprise implementation.
• Deep understanding of GE HealthCare segment software development environments, including platform reuse and integration patterns.
• Fluent in agile methods for regulated software, including risk-based documentation, incremental verification, and usability engineering integration.
• Strong business and financial acumen to prioritize investments and articulate ROI for tooling, automation, and platform strategies.
• Change management expert who builds durable habits through coaching, enablement, and communities of practice.
• Excellent written and verbal communicator with the ability to simplify complex concepts for diverse stakeholders.

We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Additional Information

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.