Sr Staff Technical Program Manager

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

• Bangalore, India

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.

• Pune, India
  Established in 2015, GE Aerospace’s Multi-modal Manufacturing Facility (MMF) in Pune plays a crucial role in manufacturing key aerospace components, supporting not only India’s defense and commercial sectors but also global aviation supply chains. Our relationships with Indian suppliers, combined with our world-class local facilities and global reach, continue to shape India’s aerospace ecosystem.

Role Overview

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate closely with Identity leadership and DT/business stakeholders to execute GE Aerospace’s Identity platform.
• Define execution methodologies and project management practices to be followed by all projects within the program.
• Organize project teams comprising from internal and external technical and functional experts based on budget, scope and timeline.
• Manage day-to-day execution of multiple interdependent projects by working directly with global technical teams.
• Coordinate execution across multiple projects 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 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 leadership and executives.
• 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.
• Perform initial and final financial reviews and ensure ongoing budget tracking.

Qualifications/ Requirements

•  Bachelor's degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 10 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.
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in Program Management or IT.
• Preferred qualifications include certifications in project management (e.g., PMP, Scrum Master) and experience with Identity Access Management tools and technologies.

Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience.

Required Qualifications

Leadership:

• Demonstrated experience leading and influencing across a complex, global matrix organization.
• Proactively identifies and removes obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team.
• Defines immediate priorities to help the team focus and deliver critical initiatives.

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in French and English with the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity.
• Energetic and self-motivated individual with ability to work effectively and cooperatively in a complex organization.
• Uses critical thinking skills and disciplined approaches to help leaders and leadership teams resolve issues and define solutions.
• Influences and energizes others toward the common vision and goal in the face of unfavorable odds and setbacks.
• Able to work under minimal supervision.

Technical Expertise:

• Proven experience using project management methodologies to deliver business value and drive significant change across an organization.
• Extensive experience in solving challenging issues in high pressure environment.
• Experienced with agile/iterative project methodology such as Scrum, preferably with experience using agile project management tools such as Rally or Jira.
• Experience managing budgets including budget and spend.
• Strong leadership skills with ability to influence outcomes and organize teams to attain shared goals.
• Excellent influencing, interpersonal and communications skills (both written and verbal) with all levels of an organization.
• Self-starter - requires minimal direction to accomplish goals.
• Strong track record of understanding and interest in current and emerging technologies demonstrated through training, job experience and / or industry activities.
• Strong team player – collaborates well with others to solve problems and actively incorporates input from various sources.
• Experience working with others on a global basis.
• Applies knowledge to coach and mentor others.
• Demonstrated customer focus – evaluates decisions through the eyes of the customer, builds strong customer relationships, creates processes with customer viewpoint and partners with customers to help shape their future initiatives.
• Strong analytical and strong problem-solving skills -communicates in a clear and succinct manner and effectively evaluates information / data to make decisions, anticipates obstacles and develops plans to resolve, creates actionable strategies and operational plans.
• Change oriented – actively generates process improvements, champions and drives change initiatives, confronts difficult circumstances in creative ways, balances multiple and competing priorities and executes accordingly.

Business Acumen:

• Working knowledge of budgets, forecasting and financial metrics.
• Ability to decompose problems and make decisions when requirements or solutions are not 100% defined.

Desirable Qualification

• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed 
• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.