Senior Software Engineering Manager - Home Energy

Description

The Role

The Senior Software Engineering Manager for the GM Home Energy team is responsible for setting the technical and organizational direction and leading multiple engineering teams that deliver new and innovative software solutions for the GM Energy business domain, including GM Home Energy and related programs.

They will own delivery for high impact customer and partner experiences across mobile, web, integrations, and data services that power capabilities such as energy program enrollment, home energy management, leasing and sales workflows, partner integrations, and grid/DER engagement platforms. impact customer and partner experiences across mobile, web, integrations, and data services that power capabilities such as energy program enrollment, home energy management, leasing and sales workflows, partner integrations, and grid/DER engagement platforms.

The ideal candidate has:

• A strong background in software architecture and engineering for cloud-native, data-intensive systems.

• Deep experience integrating across enterprise and external ecosystems (utilities, installers, OEM systems).

• A proven track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations.

• Define and drive the technical strategy and execution roadmap for Home Energy platforms (mobile apps, web portals, APIs, event streams, and data services) in support of GM Energy objectives.

• Be a technology expert across software architecture, infrastructure, build and deployment pipelines, observability, and engineering processes for multiple teams.

• Lead the delivery of exceptional, secure, and resilient software using multiple languages and technologies (e.g., modern web/mobile stacks, cloud-native services, event streaming, data platforms).

• Ensure your teams meet or exceed reliability, performance, security, and compliance expectations for customer-facing and partner-facing energy products.

• Build, lead, and retain multiple high-performing engineering teams (e.g., mobile, full-stack, data/integration) aligned to Energy Engagement business outcomes.

• Mentor and develop technical talent-from new college hires to senior/staff engineers and first-line managers-creating clear growth paths and succession plans.

• Own workforce planning and staffing decisions for your area, in partnership with HR, aligned to overall org plans and GM's strategic priorities.

• Foster a culture of ownership, psychological safety, accountability, and continuous learning that turns challenging, ambiguous ideas into robust production solutions.

• Partner closely with product management, design, GM Energy business stakeholders, and other internal and external engineering organizations to align on priorities, scope, and value delivery.

• Have a broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and strong appreciation for strategy, processes, capabilities, enablers, and governance across business domains

• Actively manage dependencies with upstream and downstream systems and resolve cross-team impediments quickly.

• Establish and maintain engineering metrics and KPIs (e.g., delivery throughput, quality, reliability, adoption) that directly contribute to GM's strategic and GM Energy program goals.

• Champion agile practices (Scrum/Kanban, CI/CD, trunk-based development, automated testing, feature flags) and ensure consistent execution across teams.

• Drive architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability, including use of Azure services, event streaming (Azure Event Hub, Kafka, Pulsar), caching (Redis), and data modeling best practices.

• Ensure adherence to security, privacy, regulatory, and safety expectations across all Energy Engagement software solutions, working with platform, security, and compliance partners as needed.

• Demonstrate managerial courage to challenge the status quo, simplify complex systems, and define creative solutions in a rapidly evolving energy and EV ecosystem.

• Champion change management in the org, and leading teams through organizational, technology, and business transitions (e.g., new program launches, platform migrations, cost management initiatives).

• Scan industry trends in energy, grid services, DER management, and customer engagement platforms, and translate them into actionable technology and product opportunities for GM Energy.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.

• 12+ years of experience developing and delivering cutting-edge enterprise-grade applications, including cloud-native systems. At least 3+ of those years should include leading multiple teams or a large, complex team as a software engineering manager or equivalent.

• Demonstrated experience leading engineering organizations of roughly 10-20+ engineers (ICs and/or managers), including hiring, performance management, coaching, and organizational design.

• Strong hands-on background in building sophisticated, scalable, secure software systems on cloud platforms (preferably Azure), including experience with:

• Event streaming and messaging (Azure Event Hub, Kafka, Pulsar).

• Caching technologies (Redis).

• Modern web and/or mobile stacks and REST/GraphQL APIs.

• Demonstrated expert knowledge of modern software development practices (Agile/Scrum, SDLC, CI/CD, test automation, observability).

• Proven ability to facilitate productive engagement and trade-off decisions between engineering, product, design, and business stakeholders.

• Track record of delivering complex, integrated solutions in an interconnected environment, ideally involving CRM, billing, data platforms, or external partner integrations (e.g., utilities, installers, grid partners).

• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, capable of switching between executive-level discussions and deep technical reviews.

• 5+ years of experience managing multiple engineering teams and/or managers, in a high-growth or transformational environment.

• Experience delivering customer-facing products in one or more of the following domains:

• Energy management, DER/solar/storage, grid services, or utilities.

• EV charging, home energy integration, or connected vehicle platforms.

• Expertise in driving numerous projects across business and IT portfolios simultaneously; demonstrable ability to sequence and de-risk a multi-quarter roadmap.

• Experience coaching and training technical staff on new and emerging technologies (e.g., event-driven architectures, data platforms, AI/ML-powered engagement, experimentation platforms).

• Strong experience with database modeling and data structure principles, including designing scalable schemas for event/data hubs and analytical use cases.