Senior Staff Architect - CT Systems and IQ

Job Description Summary

As the Sr. Staff Architect– Systems and IQ for CT, you will lead the CT Systems and IQ team, collaborate with Subsystem Architects, System designers and LSD office, ensure appropriate processes are used for Design & Development of Image chain of CT systems. Tune the system to bring out optimal performance within the given design guidelines and limitations. In this role, you work with global cross functional teams on technical execution and system performance, ensuring design outcomes deliver on time, with defined scope, and meets quality management requirements.
Systems engineering is a cross-functional engineering discipline centered on an approach, mindset, and process. All activities that consider both the business and the technical needs of the customers with the goal of providing a quality product that meets the user needs in line with the product portfolio. The discipline that executes a robust process of design, creation, and optimization of systems, consisting of identification and quantification of system requirements, creation of alternate system design concepts, performance of design trade studies, selection and implementation of the best designs and verification that the design is properly integrated and executed. Process that proceeds from concept to production to operation.
There is moderate autonomy within the role. High levels of operational judgment are required to achieve outcomes required.

GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to create a world where healthcare has no limits. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead and design the Image chain for CT products with wing-to-wing ownership. 
• Own and deliver, systems projects that requires integration of Key image chain components and achieve the best possible image quality within the defined design constraints of the product.
• Drive innovation studies to extend the clinical use of CT systems within the defined design constraints
• Support issues from field and factory on Image quality, drive solutions to satisfy customer needs
• Coordinating with system/product teams to understand subsystem impact on system clinical needs.
• Guide and coach, the system designers in the team on latest design techniques, bring in modern design practices and drive consistency and engineering efficiency across CT products.
• Establishes product requirements (internal and external), defines components and sub systems making up the overall architecture. Provides forward looking strategy for platforms and technology development / insertion to make product competitive.
• Interprets simple internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services. Stays informed of industry trends that may inform work.
• Ensure through detailed comparative analysis of solutions options that solutions are scalable, sustainable and fault tolerant.
• Work closely with cross functional teams across sites to manage technical program risks, integration risks and design tradeoffs.
• Contribute towards product strategy, drive architecture decisions, and design solutions to resolve challenging customer problems.
• Be responsible for providing technical leadership and defining, developing, and evolving designs in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest development technologies and infrastructure.

Educational Qualifications:

• This role requires significant experience in the Engineering/Technology & Systems Architecture and Design. Knowledge level is comparable to a master's degree from an accredited university or college.

Required Skills:

• A minimum of 15 years of technical experience along with established technology leadership credentials across disciplines and functions.
• Experience in working across Imaging modalities & handling system design responsibilities.
• Experience in design & development of HW-Hardware /SW-Software /Systems designs. Preferably medical devices like CT, PET-CT, X-Ray, MR.
• Expert level skills in collaborating with different stakeholders, influencing decisions and an ability to take strategic view.
• Proven track record of successful problem definition, architecture/design rigor, technical decomposition, and project estimation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, effectively evaluates information/data to make decisions, anticipates obstacles and develops plans to resolve.

Desired Characteristics:

• Strong oral and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.
• Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility.
• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Ability to effectively delegate and govern work.

Inclusion and Diversity:

GE Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviours: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership – always with unyielding integrity.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration, and support.

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