Staff Technical Program Manager

Job Description Summary

Edison Works' Advanced Programs are a key growth area in GE Edison Works, GE Aerospace and the GE Aerospace MSO portfolio with revenue growing 4x over the next 5 years.

This cross functional organization partners across product management, engineering, ops, supply chain, DT and security to deliver that growth! Come join the DT team that is critical to success!

This position will work on current generation full stack technology projects and processes that will be incorporated into the existing classified environments.

They are responsible for driving the planning and tracking of current generation technology production hardware and infrastructure-based software builds, documentation, resource management, and assisting the implementation planning efforts in classified areas related to architecture, scalability, availability and performance.

They will lead cross-team process improvement efforts related to this scope. They may interact w / functional leaders to support these technical initiatives and will work across multiple teams including, but not limited to, business, information technology, information assurance, physical security and facility.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will :

• Collaborate with technology leadership in defining technology features, backlog and specifying requirements
• Outline current project strategy aligned to deliver on the expected outcomes
• Define execution methodologies and project management practices to be followed by all projects within the designated organizational team
• Work with project teams comprising from internal and external technical and functional experts based on budget, scope and timeline
• Manage day-to-day execution, tracking and communication of multiple interdependent projects
• Coordinate execution across multiple projects and teams and drive shared approach and outcomes tracking
• Support execution team with resolution of roadblocks and interdependencies. Partner with technical and functional teams external to the project to ensure their tasks are completed as required
• Manage and communicate project risks, scope changes and other non-standard events throughout the life of the project
• Manage stakeholder communication and progress reporting at various levels of the organization including SDS leadership
• Ensure quality of deliverables is verified and matching stakeholder expectations
• Track project outcomes realization and customer satisfaction levels through established metrics against service level. Ensure lessons learned are collected
• Change oriented - actively generates process improvements, confronts difficult circumstances in creative ways, balances multiple and competing priorities and executes accordingly.
• Familiarity with iterative implementation approaches (Agile, LEAN).
• Strong knowledge of technology resource needs : compute, storage, network, server, operating systems, software, virtualization, collaboration tools, HPC, workstations, security tools, engineering and application software and automation.
• Excellent in communication and building relationships across multiple teams to ensure successful project outcomes

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
• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team. Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders.

Education Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 5 years of professional experience OR Associates degree with minimum of 8 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 10 years of professional experience
• Note : Military experience is equivalent to professional experience in project management, technology infrastructure, application, or automation experience

Eligibility Requirement :

Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.

Desired Qualification :

Active Unites States Department of Defense security clearance for access to classified information or the ability to apply for and receive / maintain clearance

Leadership :

• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. 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.
• Strong leadership skills with ability to influence outcomes and organize teams to attain shared goals.

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 others 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.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.

S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

Additional Information

GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE 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 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