VP, Software Engineering Transformation & Developer Experience

SalaryNo pay range posted
LocationWaukesha; IL03-01-Chicago-500 W Monroe St
Typefull-time
SeniorityVP
Company size10,000+ people
PostedOct 9, 2026 · 4d ago
Verified live1d ago
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Job Description Summary
Heartbeat is GE HealthCare’s proprietary business system and the foundation for how we innovate, operate, and continuously improve to deliver value for customers and patients. Within our Heartbeat in Innovation efforts, the Software Building Experience defines the enterprise environment, platforms, practices, and capabilities that enable teams to build, deploy, operate, and maintain software effectively at scale. CodeFlow is the enterprise software development transformation that brings this experience to life by modernizing engineering practices, developer platforms, tools, governance, and ways of working to improve software quality, productivity, speed, security, compliance, and developer experience across GE HealthCare.
The VP, Software Engineering Transformation & Developer Experience will lead the enterprise capabilities that enable GE HealthCare engineers to build, deploy, operate, and continuously improve software and digital solutions with greater speed, quality, security, and consistency. The role brings together developer experience, platform ownership, regulated software transformation, software supply chain, technical capability building, and AI-enabled development into a single enterprise agenda focused on improving how software is built across GE HealthCare.
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Job Description
Leading CodeFlow and the broader Software Building Experience agenda, this executive will translate engineering strategy into scalable platforms, enterprise standards, investment priorities, governance, risk controls, and measurable outcomes. The role will lead a multidisciplinary organization spanning software architecture, developer platforms, technical training, community engagement, engineering transformation, and process coaching, while mobilizing a broader network of engineering leaders and practitioners across the company. Key outcomes include higher engineering productivity, improved developer experience, stronger software quality and compliance, more reliable and secure delivery, faster adoption of modern engineering practices, and accelerated use of AI-enabled development. Success will require close partnership across Product, Technology, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Cybersecurity, IT, Segment software teams, and strategic external partners to create a consistent, scalable, and high-performing software building environment across GE HealthCare.
Job Description
1. Developer Experience, Platforms and Engineering Productivity
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Shape the enterprise strategy for software engineering productivity and developer experience, defining the future-state capabilities, standards, and investments required to make GE HealthCare a high-performing software engineering environment.
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Drive measurable improvement in developer productivity, automation, reuse, collaboration, software delivery performance, and developer experience through clear enterprise outcomes and performance measures.
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Influence the future tools and platform roadmap with IT and strategic partners, including AWS, to ensure GE HealthCare’s software building environment is secure, scalable, integrated, and aligned to long-term business and technology priorities.