[Hiring] Senior Staff Technical Program Manager Infrastructure and Platform @GE Aerospace

Role Description

The Senior Staff Technical Program Manager – Infrastructure and Platform will be a key leader in a new AI enablement team within our defense systems business. The team’s mission is to accelerate time-to-value with AI by enabling safe, scalable experimentation and maturing successful pilots into enterprise-grade solutions.

In this role, you will partner closely with business stakeholders and multiple DT/technical teams to define scope, requirements, and execution plans that enable deployment and integration of AI and related technologies. You will own program execution end-to-end, driving clarity, alignment, and transparency across all parties. The successful candidate will embody an innovators DNA Handler mindset: proactive, resourceful, bias to action, and relentlessly focused on turning AI potential into measurable outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Program and backlog management
• Own the platform product backlog and intake: how platform work is requested, prioritized, sequenced, and released
• Translate the Director's roadmap into a resourced plan with physical dates and one named owner per action
• Run the daily management, WOR, and MOR cadence for the platform team — managing the plan to Green rather than reporting status
• Golden-path adoption
• Drive adoption of the single golden-path delivery pipeline across the four product-development teams, tracking adoption and removing friction
• Coordinate the onboarding of teams onto shared services and the paved road, with clear entry criteria and support
• Stakeholder and dependency management
• Manage dependencies between the platform team and the product and architecture teams without formal authority, using transparent intake and prioritization criteria
• Broker trade-offs and surface conflicts early, escalating with options attached rather than letting dates slip silently
• Standard work and metrics
• Define and maintain the standard work for platform intake, change, and release
• Instrument platform adoption, reliability, and delivery metrics (including DORA) and report them into the operating rhythm

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience OR Associate's degree with a minimum of 8 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with a minimum of 10 years of professional experience.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Technical Program Management or IT.
• Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience.

Requirements

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

Desired Characteristics

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Agilist or Product Owner, or PMP certification.
• Experience managing an infrastructure, platform, or DevOps program as a product, including backlog and roadmap ownership.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD, cloud environments, and the mechanics of a golden-path delivery pipeline.
• Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of a shared standard across teams that do not report to you.
• Fluency instrumenting and reporting delivery metrics, including DORA (lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, time-to-restore).
• FLIGHT DECK, Lean, or a comparable operating-cadence discipline.
• Defense, aerospace, or other regulated-industry background.

Success Metrics

• Golden-path adoption across the four product-development teams
• Platform backlog delivered within planned capacity, with dates held rather than silently moved
• Intake-to-start time for a new platform request
• Delivery-metric trend (DORA) for teams on the platform
• Operating-cadence health: plan managed proactively, escalations raised early

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
• Access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace
• Employee Assistance Program providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services
• Retirement benefits including the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan and a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions
• Access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants
• Tuition assistance
• Adoption assistance
• Paid parental leave
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time-off for vacation or illness

Additional Information

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

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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