This strategic leadership role drives the digital transformation of the energy sector by enabling next-generation grid automation, device orchestration, and intelligent engineering workflows.
As a senior leader, you will act as the software architecture authority, collaborating with embedded, power systems, and UI/UX teams, and engaging with customers and global product teams to deliver scalable, secure, and future-ready solutions and shape the technical direction of platforms powering protection relays, grid-edge configuration, and digital substation system, integrating advanced standards, enabling AI-assisted engineering, and ensuring cloud-readiness, cybersecurity, and multi-vendor interoperability.Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Define the architecture and evolution of scalable, modular, and secure software platforms for T&D configuration systems, including tools for device configuration, substation engineering, and grid automation workflows.
- Define technical strategy and oversee the design cloud-native platforms using modern frameworks (.NET, Java, Python, TypeScript) that support desktop, edge, and cloud deployments, with emphasis on performance, resilience, and maintainability.
- Drive the integration IEC 61850 engineering workflows (SCL-based ICD, SCD, SSD) into intuitive, automated tooling ecosystems aligned with modern UI/UX, API design, and utility integration requirements.
- Ensure cross-functional alignment, acting as the authority between firmware, UI/UX, and power systems teams, enabling coherent system design and tight integration between engineering workflows and device behavior.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, systems, and hardware architects to deliver secure, compliant solutions for critical infrastructure, incorporating secure development lifecycle (SDLC) and DevSecOps practices.
- Drive reuse of software components across product lines, fostering platform consistency, reducing duplication, and accelerating development.
- Oversee development and lifecycle management of configuration and commissioning tools for protection and control devices, ensuring seamless integration with SCADA/DMS/EMS and other utility systems.
- Conduct software and architecture reviews, ensure compliance with industry standards (IEC 61850, IEC 61968/70, CIM, IEC 62351), and manage the end-to-end software development lifecycle from requirements to deployment and support.
- Partner with architects, systems engineers, and utility customers to define and deliver customer-centric, technically robust solutions that improve reliability, visibility, and flexibility of grid systems.
- Monitor emerging technologies (cloud-native services, model-driven engineering, AI/ML) for relevance to the T&D domain and contribute to technology roadmaps, product strategy, and IP generation through patents, whitepapers, and technical forums.
- Mentor and guide software engineers, promote a culture of technical excellence and innovation, and represent the organization in customer engagements, RFPs, and industry events.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in software engineering, including 5 years in a technical leadership or software architecture role.
Desired Characteristics
- Proven track record designing and delivering software solutions for T&D systems, energy automation, or industrial control domains.
- Expertise in utility standards and protocols: IEC 61850, CIM, IEC 61968/70, and IEC 62351.
- Strong skills in modern technologies (.NET, Java, Python, JavaScript/ TypeScript), UI frameworks, backend systems, and containerized/cloud deployments.
- Knowledge of data modeling, API integration, network communications, and cybersecurity practices.
- Familiarity with configuration management systems, substation design tools, and integration with SCADA/DMS/EMS platforms is highly desirable.
- Exceptional leadership and communication skills with the ability to influence across technical and business teams.
- Experience operating in a matrixed global organization, managing distributed engineering teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset focused on customer value and quality outcomes.
- Thought leadership through publications, standards participation, or conference speaking.
- Willingness to travel for key customer engagements, internal collaboration, or industry events.
**For candidates applying to a Canadian-based position, the pay range for this position is between $162,900.00 and $244,300.00 CAD Annual. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.
Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.
This posting is for a new vacancy.
**For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $152,400.00 USD and $254,000.00 USD Annual. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.
The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas.
Additional InformationRelocation Assistance Provided: No
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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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