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The Role
Lead the Software Architecture team in defining, maintaining and governing software architecture for GridBeats applications. Drive system integration, evaluate new technologies, establish guidelines, and ensure systems meet quality attributes. Manage architecture for legacy systems and support modernization strategies.
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Job Description SummaryGrid Automation offers its customers a complete range of innovative products, systems and services covering design and manufacture, as well as commissioning and long-term maintenance of Substation Protection and Automation solutions. This includes, amongst others, Protection relays, control systems, cyber security solutions, device management, asset performance, and many more. Grid Automation Software in the boundaries of Grid technologies, embedded software and advanced analytics solutions. If you’re passionate about Software and want to work on improving Grid resilience through Software, this is the job for you.
We are looking for a Senior Software Architect to join the GridBeats™ team. The GridBeats™ Software Portfolio is aggregating all Grid Automation applications which monitor, optimize and manage grid connected devices. It is a very complex and exciting portfolio which is setting the basis for grid connected devices management for the future.
The Senior Software Architect will head the Software Architecture team and will lead the integration and convergence of all GridBeats™ applications into a single coherent architecture and common software development practices.Job DescriptionRoles and Responsibilities:Architecture Strategy & Roadmap:
We are looking for a Senior Software Architect to join the GridBeats™ team. The GridBeats™ Software Portfolio is aggregating all Grid Automation applications which monitor, optimize and manage grid connected devices. It is a very complex and exciting portfolio which is setting the basis for grid connected devices management for the future.
The Senior Software Architect will head the Software Architecture team and will lead the integration and convergence of all GridBeats™ applications into a single coherent architecture and common software development practices.Job DescriptionRoles and Responsibilities:Architecture Strategy & Roadmap:
- Define and maintain the long-term software architecture roadmap across the GridBeats™ portfolio, including system convergence, platform strategy, and technology evolution.
- Drive the transition from multiple independent applications towards a coherent platform architecture with shared services, common interfaces, and standardized technologies.
- Evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and architectural approaches and guide their adoption where appropriate.
- Define system boundaries, interface contracts, data ownership, and communication patterns between applications and embedded devices.
- Ensure interoperability and integration between embedded software, firmware, middleware, backend systems, analytics platforms, and other GE applications.
- Establish guidelines for APIs, data models, communication protocols, and versioning strategies.
- Establish and lead architecture governance processes including architecture reviews, technical standards, and design guidelines.
- Ensure teams follow common architectural principles while allowing appropriate team autonomy.
- Support teams in making architectural decisions and resolving cross-team technical dependencies.
- Drive development of shared platforms, libraries, and common services to reduce duplication and improve maintainability across the portfolio.
- Define and promote reusable components and common development frameworks.
- Ensure systems are designed for reliability, scalability, maintainability, cybersecurity, and testability.
- Work closely with QA, Systems Engineering, and Cybersecurity teams to ensure architecture supports verification, validation, and compliance requirements.
- Define migration strategies for legacy systems and ensure backward compatibility and controlled system evolution.
- Support teams in refactoring, system modernization, and technical debt reduction strategies.
- Demonstrated senior‑level experience in software engineering, with a solid track record as a software architect.
- Comprehensive knowledge of software design principles, patterns, and best practices
- Experience with multiple programming languages and frameworks such as Java, C++, C#, Python and JavaScript
- Proven problem-solving and analysis skills
- Intimate knowledge with IEC64223 and other relevant cybersecurity related
- Familiarity with IEC 61850 Data model
- Experience defining architecture for large-scale, distributed, or embedded software systems.
- Experience integrating embedded systems with backend/cloud or enterprise software platforms.
- Experience defining APIs, system interfaces, and data models across multiple systems.
- Experience with system evolution, migration strategies, and technical debt management.
- Experience working with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and modern software development toolchains.
- Understanding of cybersecurity architecture and secure software design.
- Experience working in industrial, embedded, or safety-critical environments is highly desirable standards.
Required Must Have Qualifications:
- Strong oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to analyse and resolve problems. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
- Strong business acumen, leadership, discipline in managing the day-to-day business.
- Ability to work in international and matrix organizations.
- Able to interface effectively with all levels of the organisation.
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
Skills Required
- Demonstrated senior-level experience in software engineering
- Comprehensive knowledge of software design principles and patterns
- Experience with multiple programming languages and frameworks such as Java, C++, C#, Python and JavaScript
- Proven problem-solving and analysis skills
- Intimate knowledge with IEC64223 and cybersecurity
- Familiarity with IEC 61850 Data model
- Experience defining architecture for large-scale, distributed, or embedded software systems
- Experience integrating embedded systems with backend/cloud software
- Experience defining APIs and system interfaces
- Experience with system evolution and migration strategies
- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices
- Understanding of cybersecurity architecture
- Experience in industrial or safety-critical environments
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong business acumen and leadership skills
- Ability to work in international and matrix organizations
- Able to interface effectively with all levels of the organization
GE Vernova Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GE Vernova and has not been reviewed or approved by GE Vernova.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan includes company matching contributions and additional company retirement contributions, with access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Feedback suggests this structure supports long-term savings beyond a basic match.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is available with flexible, continuous or non-continuous usage, and is complemented by adoption resources and Work/Life Connections guidance. Maternity leave is described as extended relative to typical workplace norms.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs include 12 paid holidays, permissive time off for many salaried roles, and dedicated personal, illness, and caregiving time for U.S. new hires. Some hourly roles start with a defined PTO bank, while other roles may offer unlimited time off.
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The Company
What We Do
GE Vernova is a planned purpose-built company on a mission to electrify the planet while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.
Why Work With Us
Join our team, to evolve and grow, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the industry who help you get better every day. You’ll get the chance to rewrite the rules, work on cutting-edge technology, and be part of a global team for positive change.
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