Senior Platform Engineering and SRE Manager

Overview

Hybrid

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to their primary work location three times per week, at minimum, or other frequency dictated by the business.

The Role

The FCDL IT (Finance, Corporate Development, and Legal IT) Platform Engineering and SRE team is responsible for the health and reliability of all FCDL IT platforms, including SaaS, COTS, and Homegrown applications, ensuring compliance with GM standards and policy while driving operational excellence. The team also provides critical support to business-facing application teams that drive transformation across the organization.

We are seeking a Senior Manager to lead this team of talented system engineers and managers. You will be expected to not only lead your team in setting priorities and ensuring alignment with organizational goals, but also to be deeply technical. This role will define platform strategy that aligns with enterprise direction, ensuring highly reliable platforms, and fostering cross-functional collaboration to drive innovation and operational excellence.

You must be a demonstrated self-learner, be a strong communicator, be customer focused, and lead via both formal and informal relationships.

At GM, we value leaders who are technically fluent, able to guide their teams through complex challenges, and passionate about mentoring engineers to grow into their best selves. Our managers create clarity, remove roadblocks, and advocate for their teams' long-term success.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow a team of system engineering managers and senior engineers within the Finance, Corporate Development and Legal organization.
• Provide clear strategy and direction, aligning team goals with business objectives while ensuring high quality execution and on time delivery of platforms to support the organization.
• Drive cross functional collaboration across Core IT, Business Application, and platform supplier teams to ensure alignment with GM statement of technical direction and ensure application security fitness across FCDL organization.
• Evaluate system functionality and performance and advocate for optimizations that reduce infrastructure costs while maintaining service reliability.
• Lead, implement and improve monitoring and observability frameworks, enabling proactive detection and resolution of incidents with minimal manual intervention.
• Work alongside engineers, systems configurators, and platform suppliers to ensure the quality, scalability, and reliability of our services while identifying opportunities to inject new innovations.
• Develop people resource plans, actively support skill and competency growth, and align responsibilities with individual strengths through ongoing career development conversations.
• Conduct deep-dive analyses of incidents and collaborate on post-incident reviews to derive learnings and prevent recurrence. Champion a culture of continuous improvement.

What You'll Need

Competitive edge

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. PLEASE 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.

Company Vehicle

Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate.

Note : program participants are required to purchase / lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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