Job Description

The Role:

General Motors is seeking an HRIS Software Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for enterprise applications, platform capabilities, and intelligent workflows across cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments supporting Finance, Human Resources, and Corporate Systems. This role combines people leadership and technical leadership to drive modernization, improve delivery, and introduce AI-enabled capabilities in practical, secure, and responsible ways.

What You'll Do (Responsibilities):

Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers and technical leads.
Drive delivery across the software development lifecycle, from planning through production support.
Set engineering priorities, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes aligned to business goals.
Guide architecture, engineering standards, documentation, and solution delivery.
Remove roadblocks, manage risk, and support high-quality, on-time execution.
Modernize legacy applications, workflows, and integration patterns.
Advance reusable platform capabilities, API-first design, automation, and service-based engineering practices.
Partner with product, architecture, infrastructure, security, and business teams on technology roadmaps.
Improve system reliability, maintainability, observability, and operational readiness.
Drive modern engineering practices including Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and release governance.
Identify and implement AI and intelligent automation opportunities that improve efficiency, user experience, and business outcomes.
Follow responsible AI practices across governance, security, privacy, and quality.
Lead hiring, talent planning, performance management, and career development.
Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Need (Required Qualifications):

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of experience in software engineering, systems integration, enterprise application development, or platform engineering.
3+ years of experience leading technical teams.
Experience designing and delivering scalable, secure, production-grade systems.
Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, reliability, observability, and support models.
Experience with API-driven architectures, enterprise integrations, distributed systems, and backend platforms.
Experience leading teams using Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and automated testing practices.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Experience leading or delivering AI-enabled products, intelligent automation, or decision-support capabilities in an enterprise setting.
Understanding of responsible AI principles, including privacy, security, governance, and human oversight.
Experience in leading teams to deploy/migrate custom applications to cloud Azure

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree in a related technical discipline.
Experience supporting enterprise business platforms such as HR, Finance, collaboration, and other corporate systems.
Experience with technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, Quarkus, C#, TypeScript, React, and microservices.
Experience with cloud platforms and modern data technologies.
Experience leading platform modernization, intelligent automation, or digital transformation initiatives.
Familiarity with enterprise knowledge systems, AI tooling, workflow platforms, or developer productivity platforms.
Experience using Terraform to provision and manage cloud infrastructure as code (IaC)

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Benefits Overview

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