Role Summary:
In this strategic technical pre-sales position, the Sr Staff Solution Architect will establish a trusted
advisor relationship with both our external customers and internal technical teams. You will
collaborate with internal development teams, pre-sales technical teams and commercial
sales teams to help drive sales of GE Aviation Digital products and services.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Create a “trusted technical advisor” relationship with our customer’s technologists and internal
  technical teammates
• Establish a deep understanding of our customers’ business and technical needs
• Help to provide vision, define system and application architecture, problem anticipation and
  problem solving ability across the landscape
• Lead change across large platforms / functional areas using technology solutions
• Provide deep software/hardware technical architecture expertise to ensure proper solution
  design
• Interface with all Pre-Sales Solutions Architects globally
• Evangelize the use of GE technology and data platforms, products, and services in appropriate sales forums to drive demand and continued interest
• Build link to provocative selling model to ensure architecture views are properly integrated
• Shape, drive and be held accountable for delivering significant strategic initiatives across
  broad scope/platform(s) in liaison with key stakeholders.
  

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, science, engineering, technology or related discipline
• Minimum 5 years’ work experience in software solution architecture
• Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation
• Must be willing to travel 50%.
  

Desired Characteristics:

• Manages and possesses working industry
• Strong interpersonal skills, including creativity and curiosity with ability to effectively communicate and influence solution direction to both technical and non-technical audiences alike across all organizational levels
• Familiarity with cloud architectures and deploying applications to the cloud
• Experience with Microsoft Azure a plus
• Understanding of big data and MPP technologies and data platforms
• Experience with Teradata
• Technical acumen to interface with technologists, understand complex concepts and translate in a way that businesses or industry can understand
• Demonstrated problem solving and creative skills
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, strategic agility, manage diversity and drive for results.

About Us:
GE (NYSE:GE) drives the world forward by tackling its biggest challenges. By combining world-class engineering with software and analytics, GE helps the world work more efficiently, reliably, and safely. GE people are global, diverse and dedicated, operating with the highest integrity and passion to fulfill GE’s mission and deliver for our customers. www.ge.com

Locations: China; ShangHai; Shanghai