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Lead Systems Architect

Role overview

Summary

This role supports the Product Management team by executing systems architecture activities for the Gas Power portfolio. You will collaborate across various functions to enhance safety, quality, and customer value while managing requirements and analyzing system performance.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field from an accredited university or college.
  • Relevant experience in engineering, operations, product management, or systems engineering within power generation or another industrial environment.
  • Strong, effective communication skills.
  • Preferred: Master's degree in engineering, systems engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Preferred: Experience with systems engineering practices, including concept development and requirements management.

Responsibilities

  • Execute systems architecture activities for assigned modules and systems.
  • Translate stakeholder functional needs into clear, traceable, and configurable requirements.
  • Analyze information from multiple internal sources to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
  • Coordinate with engineering, sourcing, service, and other partners to resolve routine cross-functional issues.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Verbal Communication Skills

About the company

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GE Vernova

  • Utilities & Power
  • XLarge
  • 10,001+
Building on over 130 years of experience, GE Vernova is leading a new era of energy – electrifying the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.

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Job description

Job Description Summary

Join the Product Management team as a Systems Architect supporting Pivot to Value (P2V) initiatives across the Gas Power portfolio. In this role, you will execute systems architecture activities for assigned modules and systems using standard functional practices, prior experience, and developing in-depth discipline knowledge. Your work will support improvements in safety, quality, delivery, cost, capacity, and customer value. The role requires strong collaboration across engineering, sourcing, service, and product management, as well as the ability to explain complex technical information in straightforward business situations.

Job Description

Systems Architecture and Requirements

  • Execute systems architecture activities for an assigned set of modules and systems across definition, fulfillment, service, and end-of-life, following established functional practices and procedures.
  • Translate stakeholder functional needs into clear, traceable, and configurable module and system requirements, seeking review or guidance for nonstandard or higher-risk decisions.
  • Maintain requirements, assumptions, decisions, risks, and configuration records in applicable systems, ensuring assigned deliverables meet quality and timing expectations.

Analysis, Productivity, and Business Impact

  • Analyze information from multiple internal sources to identify trends, gaps, trade-offs, and improvement opportunities within assigned systems or modules.
  • Support make/buy, do/buy, reuse, standardization, and configurability decisions by applying established evaluation criteria and preparing fact-based recommendations.
  • Coordinate with engineering, sourcing, service, and other partners to obtain inputs, resolve routine cross-functional issues, and deliver agreed-upon outcomes.

Verification, Problem Solving, and Improvement

  • Participate in or coordinate verification and validation reviews of engineering and supplier deliverables against approved requirements and acceptance criteria.
  • Evaluate information quality and consistency, ask pertinent questions, and leverage appropriate internal resources beyond the immediate team to support decisions.
  • Recommend improvements to systems modeling methods, requirements practices, templates, and data quality.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field from an accredited university or college.
  • Relevant experience in engineering, operations, product management, or systems engineering within power generation or another industrial environment.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master's degree in engineering, systems engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Experience with systems engineering practices, including concept development, requirements management, interface control, configuration management, verification and validation, and risk management.
  • Experience working across electrical, mechanical, controls, thermal, or plant-integration disciplines to assess system-level trade-offs.
  • Experience with gas power plant systems across proposal, design, execution, or service phases of the product lifecycle.
  • Experience applying analytical or simulation tools, data integration, cloud platforms, or AI and machine-learning tools to engineering analysis.
  • Familiarity with GE Vernova products, systems, and commercial processes, including the ability to support technical discussions with internal or external stakeholders.
  • Strong, effective communication skills.

Additional Information

GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

#LI-Remote - This is a remote positionFor candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $89,700.00 and $149,500.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on November 13, 2026.Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

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