Job Description

Company Overview

Working at GE Aerospace means you are bringing your unique perspective, innovative spirit, drive, and curiosity to a collaborative and diverse team working to advance aerospace for future generations. If you have ideas, we will listen. Join us and see your ideas take flight!

Site Overview

Established in 2000, the John F. Welch Technology Center (JFWTC) in Bengaluru is GE Aerospace’s multidisciplinary research and engineering center. Pushing the boundaries of innovation every day, engineers and scientists at JFWTC have contributed to hundreds of aviation patents, pioneering breakthroughs in engine technologies, advanced materials, and additive manufacturing.

Role Overview:

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with product leader and business leads to understand new changes, including enhancements, new developments, and rollout initiatives; translate business requirements into functional and technical designs, solution roadmaps, and release plans.
• Lead enhancements and changes in Sourcing and Purchasing domains, ensuring alignment with business goals, timelines, quality standards, and compliance requirements.
• Serve as the functional and technical architect for new enhancements and rollouts; handle the solution and design review , lead complex change design for Sourcing, iProcurement, Purchasing, and Inventory.
• Work with vendor teams working on development in the purchasing area; enforce code and configuration quality and optimize delivery for value.
• Act as Purchasing and Technical SME for production-critical issues; perform impact analysis, triage complex problems across modules, and drive root cause and corrective actions across EBS and integrated systems.
• Play role of Architect for custom solutions/extensions, RICEFW objects, and integrations on top of Oracle EBS; maintain functional and technical design authority, documentation, and decision logs; ensure reusability and adherence to coding and security standards.
• Learn and own custom products within the Source-to-Pay landscape that intersect with Shared Sourcing Services; ensure end-to-end process integrity, master data quality, and robust error handling.
• Maintain integration between EBS and peripheral systems; ensure data accuracy, reconciliation, performance, and observability.
• Partner with Operations to ensure smooth releases and stable run operations, including change control, patch impact reviews, regression strategy, and non-prod environment readiness.
• Ensure adherence to internal controls and external regulations (e.g., SOX, SOD); design appropriate access models, approvals, and audit evidence.
• Implement Flight Deck and Lean fundamentals to drive continuous improvement in quality, delivery, and cost; facilitate Kaizens, standard work, and visual management for Purchasing processes.
• Demonstrate strategic, expert-level problem-solving skills; communicate complex functional and technical topics in clear business terms and navigate ambiguity with sound judgment.

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrates excelling business acumen, knows latest industry trends and is looked at as an internal expert on the product as well as the associated competitive landscape.• Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.• Works with cross-functional teams to deliver features and significant products.• Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.• Routinely collaborates with UX in design decisions. Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.• Demonstrate superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.• Owns the releases and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.• Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.• Prioritizes continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.• Demonstrates strategic level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.• Engages frequently (50 of the time) with the development team; facilitates discussions, provides clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions.• Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work unit.• Partners with Development Leadership/Service Owners to ensure healthy development process.• Mentors junior team members.• Expert in Agile Methodology.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college with a minimum of 10 years of professional experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on Oracle EBS experience with focus on Sourcing, iProcurement, Purchasing, and Inventory; experience spanning both functional configuration and technical components.
• Strong understanding of Source-to-Pay processes, including requisitions, sourcing, PO creation and approvals, receiving, invoice matching, and supplier management.
• Deep knowledge of Oracle Purchasing-related setups, AOL, and integration touchpoints to AP, Inventory, and GL.
• Proficiency in SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle Workflow, XML Publisher, and OAF; ability to guide code reviews and lead performance tuning.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with business stakeholders, product teams, and vendor resources to deliver complex enhancements and rollouts.
• Willingness to work in platform-agnostic roles and learn adjacent tools where needed.
• Familiarity with software design principles, SDLC/ITIL practices, documentation standards, and problem-solving techniques, including requirements breakdown, estimation, and risk management.

Technical Expertise:

• Organized, thorough, and detail-oriented with strong ownership and follow-through.
• Collaborates well with cross-functional teams and actively incorporates input from various sources.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; effectively evaluates information/data to make decisions and drive outcomes.
• Lean practice experience including Kaizens, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), and structured problem solving; experience establishing standard work and visual controls.
• Understanding of Oracle EBS Finance and Contracts modules and their integration with Purchasing.
• Understanding of shell scripting; familiarity with job scheduling and automation tools is a plus.

Business Acumen:• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices• Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment

Leadership:• Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making.• Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.Personal Attributes:• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

Additional Information:

Whether we are manufacturing components for our engines, driving innovation in fuel and noise reduction, or unlocking new opportunities to grow and deliver more productivity, our GE Aerospace teams are dedicated and making a global impact. Join us and help move the aerospace industry forward.

Note

Note:To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.

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