AI Systems Engineering Manager - HRIS
Today• Austin, TX
Sunnyvale, CAWarren, MI
Description
The Role:
As a HRIS Systems Engineering Manager at General Motors, you will lead a high-performing team responsible for building, integrating, and modernizing HR technology platforms across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments. This role combines people leadership and technical leadership, with accountability for platform strategy, modernization, automation, security, reliability, and delivery.
You will set technical direction, drive engineering excellence, and ensure alignment between business priorities and execution. You will play a critical role in developing engineering talent, strengthening platform capabilities, and delivering scalable, secure, and future-ready HR technology solutions that support GM's transformation agenda.
What You'll Do:
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers, providing technical guidance, career development support, and ongoing performance feedback.
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- Set the engineering vision, roadmap, and execution strategy for HRIS platforms in alignment with organizational goals and enterprise architecture standards.
- Modernize legacy platforms through automation, cloud enablement, improved engineering practices, and scalable platform design.
- Guide the full engineering lifecycle including requirements definition, architecture, implementation, release, support, and continuous improvement.
- Drive platform engineering practices including infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, resiliency, and secure-by-design delivery.
- Partner with HR, security, infrastructure, architecture, delivery, data, and enterprise platform teams to align technical solutions with business needs.
- Build team capability in automation, scripting, cloud deployment, modern platform tools, and engineering best practices.
- Implement and continuously improve performance management processes for the team, including goal setting, regular reviews, development planning, and accountability for results.
- Develop and manage plans, priorities, resource allocation, and execution risks to ensure initiatives are delivered on time and with high quality.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate technical and operational risks while driving pragmatic solutions to complex engineering challenges.
- Ensure platforms are secure, stable, scalable, well governed, and compliant with company standards and security requirements.
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating complex concepts into clear and actionable decisions.
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience leading technical teams in systems engineering, platform engineering, enterprise applications, infrastructure engineering, or HR technology environments.
- Experience setting technical direction, driving delivery, and developing engineering talent.
- Strong experience designing and implementing solutions for complex enterprise platforms.
- Experience leading modernization efforts involving automation, cloud enablement, and legacy transformation.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, cloud deployment, scripting, and CI/CD tools.
- Strong knowledge of security practices including RBAC, secrets management, patching, vulnerability remediation, SSO, and SAML.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, analytical, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, influence stakeholders, and align teams around a common technical direction.
- AI & Intelligent Systems Requirements:
- Working knowledge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) concepts, including supervised and unsupervised learning, model lifecycle, and data pipelines.
- Experience integrating AI-driven capabilities into enterprise platforms, such as intelligent automation, predictive insights, conversational interfaces, decision-support tools, or workflow augmentation.
- Familiarity with AI-enabled platforms and tools, including cloud-based AI services, large language models, intelligent process automation, analytics platforms, or similar emerging technologies.
- Ability to partner with data science, analytics, and platform teams to translate business needs into AI-enabled platform requirements, architectures, and practical use cases.
- Understanding of data pipelines, data governance, and data quality practices required to support responsible and scalable AI solutions.
- Understanding of model risk management and ethical AI considerations, including bias, transparency, explainability, privacy, and security.
- Experience applying AI to improve engineering productivity, platform operations, monitoring, testing, support workflows, or service reliability.
- Ability to evaluate AI opportunities pragmatically and drive adoption in ways that improve outcomes, reduce manual effort, and strengthen platform capability.
What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):
- Experience with HRIT, HRIS, Workday, or other enterprise business systems.
- Experience leading platform modernization, cloud migration, and automation adoption.
- Familiarity with DataDog, OpenTelemetry (OTEL), GitHub, or similar engineering tools.
- Experience with enterprise integration patterns, APIs, and modern platform architectures.
- Experience leading teams through technology modernization and AI adoption initiatives.
- Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
Leadership Profile
The ideal candidate is a forward-looking engineering leader who can set strategy, build team capability, and deliver secure, scalable, modern HR technology platforms. They bring strong technical judgment, a modernization mindset, and the ability to balance reliability, governance, speed, and innovation while helping the organization responsibly adopt automation and AI.
This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.
This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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Client-provided location(s): Austin, TX, Sunnyvale, CA, Warren, MI
Job ID: General_Motors-JR-202611756
Employment Type: FULL_TIME
Posted: 2026-06-10T00:08:24
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- FSA
- HSA
- HSA With Employer Contribution
Parental Benefits
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Adoption Leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
Work Flexibility
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Opportunities
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Casual Dress
- Happy Hours
- On-Site Cafeteria
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K)
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- Performance Bonus
- Relocation Assistance
- Stock Purchase Program
Professional Development
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Learning and Development Stipend
- Promote From Within
- Mentor Program
- Shadowing Opportunities
- Access to Online Courses
- Lunch and Learns
- Internship Program
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Woman founded/led
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
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