Staff Software Architect

Overview

Staff Software Engineer role on the Software Builder Tools (SBT) team in Bangalore, India, responsible for the strategy, scalability, reliability and operational excellence of the software development platforms used across GE HealthCare engineering organizations.

What you'll do

• Lead the architectural design and evolution of highly scalable, secure and performant software tools for healthcare product development teams.
• Define and document architectural principles, patterns and best practices that guide development teams in building robust and maintainable software.
• Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks and tools to meet project requirements and align with long-term strategic goals.
• Collaborate closely with product management, engineering leadership and other architects to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Drive initiatives for technical debt reduction, system optimization and performance tuning.
• Research and evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities for innovation and competitive advantage within healthcare.
• Act as a subject matter expert and provide technical guidance on complex problem-solving and troubleshooting.
• Partner with software product development teams to keep critical engineering tools highly available, secure and compliant, supporting New Product Introductions (NPIs) and commercial software products.
• Drive the roadmap and operational health of enterprise software engineering platforms such as GitLab, Coverity, JFrog Artifactory, Sonar, SwaggerHub and related DevSecOps tooling.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve developer productivity and implement responsible AI capabilities across the software development lifecycle.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering or software tools experience.
• Strong experience with modern software development lifecycle practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-native architectural patterns (e.g., microservices, serverless, containers).
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting regulated industries such as healthcare, medical devices or life sciences.
• Knowledge of software supply chain security and secure SDLC practices.
• Experience leading platform modernization or enterprise tool migration initiatives.
• Experience applying AI and Generative AI technologies within software development workflows.
• Familiarity with product lifecycle management, requirements management, test management and engineering compliance processes.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Relocation assistance: not provided.