- Set multi-year technical direction and target-state architecture for cross-domain engineering platform capabilities - Define strategy, investment priorities, sequencing, principles, standards, governance, reliability expectations, and decision frameworks - Resolve ambiguous architectural tradeoffs spanning organizations, product lines, suppliers, technology stacks, and delivery cadences - Improve engineering effectiveness and product outcomes through platforms, automation, reusable patterns, data, and operating models - Influence senior and executive leaders through recommendations grounded in technical judgment, risk, cost, quality, and business impact - Lead through principal and staff engineers, develop technical leaders, and strengthen communities of practice - Remain technically credible and selectively hands-on in high-value or high-risk problems - Define future-state architecture and multi-year roadmaps for the assigned domain and adjacent interfaces - Lead resolution of cross-domain technical risks involving architecture, quality, security, reliability, cost, scalability, and delivery continuity - Advise leadership on investments, program risk, platform health, and enterprise tradeoffs - Convene architecture reviews and technical communities across engineering, validation, cloud, cybersecurity, quality, program management, and suppliers - Sponsor platform capabilities, automation, data models, and self-service experiences - Define success measures and use evidence to prioritize improvements and verify impact - Represent GM's technical direction with internal and external partners while maintaining high standards for safety, quality, security, and customer impact Requirements - Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, systems engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience - Typically, 15 or more years of experience developing, integrating, deploying, or validating software systems,



including substantial experience leading architecture across organizations - Deep understanding of embedded and real-time software architecture - Record of delivering high-quality safety-critical or mission-critical products - Demonstrated enterprise or multi-organization technical influence without direct authority - Exceptional judgment in ambiguous, high-consequence technical decisions - Ability to communicate complex tradeoffs to technical and executive audiences - Robust experience with production engineering platforms, software delivery systems, or engineering productivity capabilities - Proficiency in Python and at least one additional language used in software or engineering-tooling environments - Significant depth in at least one of the four specialization areas and breadth to connect it to the others - Experience designing or governing systems involving embedded software, Linux, Git, CI/CD, cloud platforms, infrastructure as code, test automation, artifact management, data, APIs, or platform reliability - For Virtualization and CI infrastructure: significant CI/CD platform architecture experience; deep Kubernetes cluster operations, Terraform or comparable IaC module design, and production cloud architecture experience; enterprise security, compliance, progressive delivery, artifact flow, and observability standards; adoption of common virtual development platforms - For CI and Quality: enterprise CI/CD architecture, quality-gating policy, and release-readiness frameworks for embedded or vehicle software; understanding of MCU and SoC build systems, embedded Linux, AUTOSAR, Yocto, containers, cross-compilation,



or vehicle deployment workflows; GitHub Enterprise or comparable platform governance; artifact promotion, virtual and hardware validation, and secure delivery controls - For Test-system modernization: architecture and modernization strategy for large-scale embedded test systems; variation management, configuration comparison, change-impact analysis, and risk-based regression; test-result data models, APIs, analytics, diagnostics, and integrations; enterprise test standards - For Build-system modernization: enterprise embedded build-system architecture and developer-productivity strategy; large-scale migration from Make or shell orchestration to Bazel or comparable platforms; reusable rules, macros, toolchains, platforms, repository standards, artifact provenance, and reproducible builds; adoption and outcome measurement - GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship; candidates must not require GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future Core Competencies Demonstrates expertise in defining multi-year technical direction and architecture for cross-domain engineering platforms, with a strong focus on embedded and real-time software systems. Proven ability to influence technical decisions and lead teams in delivering high-quality, safety-critical products while managing complex tradeoffs across organizations. Highest-signal resume keywords - Multi-Year Technical Direction - Embedded Software Architecture - CI/CD Platform Architecture - Python Proficiency - Technical Influence Hard Skills - Embedded Software - Real-Time Software Architecture - Production Engineering Platforms - Software Delivery Systems - Test Automation - Infrastructure as Code - Kubernetes - Terraform - Bazel - APIs Soft Skills - Exceptional Judgment - Complex Tradeoff Communication - Leadership Development Industry Keywords - Safety-Critical Products - Mission-Critical Products - Enterprise Security - Compliance - Quality-Gating Policy Tools & Technologies - Linux - Git - Cloud Platforms - Artifact Management - GitHub Enterprise

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