Job ID: 45762148
Product Application Specialist
Livingston, West Lothian
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Business
GE Energy Infrastructure
Business Segment
Energy Infrastructure - Energy Services
About Us
GE T&D is driving the Smart Grid vision. In this fast paced environment, innovation and time to market are key to success. To support the business in creating new products for a Smart Grid reality we are seeking to add key roles to our team to accelerate the introduction of new technologies and products.
Role Summary/Purpose
As part of a core experienced team, the product specialist provides a key role in technical leadership of the existing product and in prototyping and introducing new product. Works with Product Managers to understand the market and product vision and delivers innovative working solutions for productization.
Essential Responsibilities
Understands stakeholder needs, and high level requirements, uses strong multi-platform development skills and acute product knowledge to design and implement working, sustainable solutions that further the product capability and drive business growth.Support for the commercial teams in solution definition, solution selling, and preparation for benchmarks.Responsible for sustainable development of key staff, mentoring and succession planning to ensure team growth can support the business.
• Provide technical leadership, technical direction and assure conformance to relevant standards in product direction. Define IT landscape product vision.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to key individuals in team, succession planning
• Support Product Managers in TG1-TG3 phases with technical input and solution validation
• Prototyping to provide proof of concept of proposed product solutions
• Provide the development team with subject matter expertise to validate design decisions
• Maintain an awareness of other product developments across the organization to ensure compatibility and interoperability
• Work with Product Manager(s) gathering business and technical requirements from both internal and external customers to define product content and help formulate product direction
• Assist the Development team in producing documentation, specifications, training materials and other supporting materials to enable full productization and release.
• Participate in design reviews to ensure that technical solutions will meet market requirements
• Interface with external organizations & supporting functions
Additional Functions:
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to wider team as required
• Support customer funded development that touches core product or requires highly technical design input
• Support for commercial/pre-sales organisation in solution definition and technical aspects of proposals and benchmarks
• Keep abreast of customers' IT environments and product configurations to provide input on appropriate development languages, environment and tools to be used. This could involve an element of technical research
• Provide support for creation and delivery of product demonstrations
• Undertake Customer visits to understand their ongoing business needs and future technical requirements
Qualifications/Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering• At least 5 additional years of experience in software development and 5 further years in a senior role
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
Desired Characteristics
• Minimum 5 years development experience with DMS, OMS, SCADA product at senior level• Full software life cycle experience required • Must be focused on the delivery of customer value through functional, high quality software that adds business value• Must be able to interact and communicate with all levels of staff and project management in both the business and the technical areas, with the ability to keep discussions at the appropriate level of abstraction • Possess excellent analytical, problem solving, organizational, interpersonal, and motivational skills, with the ability to move cleanly from theoretical to implementation thinking• Analytical skills and ability to deliver solutions • Communications and presentation skills• Expert level understanding of software design and development including programming languages (Java, C++), Object Oriented analysis and design, and application architecture• Project management or team organization experience is preferred • Strong interpersonal and leadership skills• Able to influence others and create cohesive groups• Proven mentoring skills including technical mentoringWork Traits:• Develops a strong team and breeds positive moral.• Understands business objectives and drives specific tasks required to meet the objectives.• Ability to work to deadlines.• Organised and adaptable with a flexible approach to work.Values:• Communicates the technical and business vision effectively in an open and consistent manner.• Encourages input from all members of the team. • Displays good interpersonal skills - is accessible and approachable.Growth Traits:• Anticipates customer needs and ensures that they are met.• Measures processes and performance through the customer's eyes.• Communicates messages clearly and concisely.• Can energize teams through inclusiveness and connection with people.• Builds loyalty and commitment.
Date posted: 21/11/2009 18:03
Reference: Totaljobs/GE_13935_EN 