Sr Technical Program Manager Infrastructure and Platform

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.

• 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

• 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.
• Eligibility requirement 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.

• 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 Dev Ops 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.

• 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…