DAS Platform Technical Program Manager (IC)

Company:

The Boeing Company

Job ID:

00000437836

Date Posted:

2024-09-03

Location:

USA - Englewood, CO

Job Description Qualifications:

The DAS Platform Technical Program Manager (IC) position is an Englewood, Colorado, US based for the Digital Aviation Solutions (DAS) Platform organization.  The position offers a unique opportunity to the right individual to part of the DAS Platform Senior Leadership Team to drive and provide platform software program management oversight, along with fiscal management while influencing and partaking in the Global DAS Platform evolution and strategy.

Position Responsibilities:

Besides other duties as assigned, current know responsibilities will include:

• Lead and coordinate special programs and initiatives across the global DAS Platform organization, ensuring alignment with company, DAS & SEAT, objectives, and strategies.
• Drive / support build out of the DAS Platform, Empowered Teams model, Support Model, DAS Platform Adoption, Platform as a Product, CIAM, ensuring transparent Communications across DAS Platform, SEAT, and others as required.
• Will define a plan, establish milestones, track, and ensure on time development and delivery, identifying risks early along with mitigation approaches.
• Oversight over DAS Platform Development which will encompass complex, highly technical programs from inception to delivery, overseeing all aspects including planning, execution, and evaluation.
• Collaborate with SEAT, DAS Platform & other leadership to define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in a cost-effective manner.
• Define, develop, and implement best practices for program management, including Agile methodologies, to improve efficiency and effectiveness across the DAS Platform organization, working closely with the SEAT Delivery Office.
• For DAS Platform organization, facilitate strategic planning sessions and workshops with leadership teams to drive innovation and continuous improvement resulting in effective resource management and financial management.
• Coordinate work and deliverables across DAS Platform globally, across cross-functional teams, managing resources, schedules, and budgets effectively.
• Drive the success of the DAS Platform by implementing and overseeing Program governance, risk identification & management, change management, establish, and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including communications.
• Drive Agile transformation initiatives and coach teams in Agile best practices across DAS Platform.
• Collaborate and Coordinate with DAS Platform Chief of Staff on communication for strategy across Platform, SE&AT, and DAS organizations.

The above responsibility and accountability areas will evolve, and their focus will change over time as the DAS Platform matures. Hence, it is imperative that the individual is the right person and fit for the organization and fulfils other characteristics as detailed below.

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

This position is hybrid. This means that the selected candidate will be required to perform some work onsite at the Englewood CO location.  This is at the hiring team’s discretion and could potentially change in the future.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

The following is the minimal experience for this position:

• Technical Program Management: 15+ years in multi-team highly technical environments, progressive, with focus on large-scale, complex projects/programs
• Global Teams: Proven experience working with global teams and managing programs across multiple time zones and cultures.
• Direct People Management/ or LEAD experience: 3+ years
• Direct (HR) / Indirect (via Influence) Leadership or LEAD experience: 15+ years, progressive
• Technical Program Management:
  • 15+ years, progressive
  • SaaS experience necessary
  • Cloud Platform experience necessary
  • Budget/Finance experience necessary
• Software Engineering: Been a developer or led software development teams in past.
• Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Certificate in Program Mgmt., PMP or SPC certified at some part of their career (currency of certification is not required)
  • Courses taken to remain relevant with technology advances.
• Work Environments: Exposure working in various work environments spanning large corporations and in Platform and SaaS environments.
• Organizational Fit: Beyond technical skills, competencies, and experience, includes, culture, ethics, morals, transparency, collaboration, respect, blend of soft and hard skills.

Refer to the Preferred Qualifications, Desired Skills, and Experience section to understand what would be needed to be successful in this leadership (IC) position.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

Organizational Fit

The individual has to be the right fit for the position – this goes beyond technical skills, competencies, and experience, but into realms of culture, ethics, morals, attitude (up, down and lateral), the ability and capability in working collaboratively in heavily matrixed global environments, the ability to assimilate into the organization: leadership, product and business partners, undertake direct (HR) responsibilities over development teams and indirectly influence global development.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Prowess

The individual needs to be able to manage multiple conflicting priorities, with minimal day-to-day direction, solve for the immediate, yet deliver for the longer-term - on time and budget, juggling multiple projects in parallel and quickly switching context.

Execution and Delivery Against Strategic Goals and Priorities

Ensures development delivery in tight stated timeless, driving home development and delivery to such – on cost, on budget, on time and deliver with high-quality to changing scope as needed to meet customer needs, finding creative ways to solve problems and get things done (vs. saying why it can’t be), resolving to the need within a fixed budget and fixed headcount model.

Attitude and Dedication

The individual needs to be fully vested and have a long-term commitment (not be one jumps from one shiny thing to the next because it is something new), have a high energy persona with a positive attitude, visible in communications and daily interactions to drive the organization forward and achieve results. 

Leading Through Change

The individual should be capable to lead during change. This will require the ability to create, foster, and maintain a positive work environment for the teams in time of change (business, technology, and organizational transformation), through adversity, and turmoil – leading (guiding) teams and people through changes. 

Emotional Intelligence

The individual needs to have a high level of emotional intelligence and be able to work with others (above, peers, and lower in the greater parent org) in a calm manner and not allow his/her feelings or personal/work circumstances impact others around.

Technical Prowess

Working knowledge (from a technical leader perspective), spanning many of the following areas (with specific focus on those most needed and related to Platform), to effectively interface with the day-to-day workings of the Development Teams:

• Compliance, GDPR, Data security and Disaster recovery, Business Continuity Management and Planning, PCI, SOX, ISO, etc.
• Platform knowhow: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, Platforms and cloud migration strategy and execution
• APIs, Webservices, SOAP, REST, RESTful, JSON-RPC, JMS, SOA/EDA, Microservices, client-server, distributed systems, API-First Frameworks, OpenAPI specs, NodeJS, React, Angular
• Java, J2EE, .NET, Spring, Hibernate, Spring Boot, RDBMS, NoSQL, OOAD, MuleSoft, Apigee, Stacklet, Backstage, Mashery, Kubernetes, CI/CD, deployment pipelines, IaC, GitOps
• Design Patterns, Architecture best practices, Agile SDLC, build & deployment tools
• MVC, Spring IOC, Hibernates, SOA and other similar design patterns/principles, with understanding API-First design OpenAPI microservices architecture design paradigms.
• Complex on-prem datacenter, cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), hybrid infrastructure environments
• Ability to provide/understand technical system solutions, determine/implement overall design direction, observe and provide recommendations to solve for complex technical issues proactively and in the moment, and make data-driven decisions with KPIs/metrics
• Experience planning and developing support processes and adhering to best practices
• Quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of legacy and newer technologies
• Self-starter who can quickly learn new technologies

It is understood that the individual may not have all the skills or knowledge, but the individual should be ready and willing to learn those needed to fulfil a Technical Role successfully; these include but not limited to, attending, and completing relevant Training as needed for the work at hand.

Collaboration and Partnership

This individual will need to effectively collaborate with other peer leaders, bring harmony, to lead and grow the teams, to build and support highly complex and challenging products including sustain, maintenance & ‘keep the lights on’ (KTLO). In this position, the individual is required to possess broad and practical experience in software development delivery, or program management for large scale systems, specializing in building strong and highly skilled teams, partnering with customer facing teams to align with the “voice of the customer” and collaborating with product leadership in support of product strategy, planning and developing new software with successful execution and high quality.

Coaching and Mentorship

The individual needs to be highly ethical, has very high moral standards, shows mutual respect, works well across global teams, is trustworthy, shares knowledge, is a coach and a mentor, is an excellent team player within and outside the immediate teams and sphere of control and influence.

Typical Education & Experience:

Education/experience typically acquired through advanced education (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 10 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience (e.g. Master+8 years' related work experience, 14 years' related work experience, etc.).

Relocation

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position. Candidates must live in the immediate area or relocate at their own expense.

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

“At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent.  Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities. 

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work. 

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations. 

Summary pay range: $150,450.00-$203,550.00.

Applications for this position will be accepted until September 6th, 2024.

Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems. We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and thinkers. Bold innovators and dreamers. Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world.

Relocation:

No relocation available

Export Control Requirement:

Not an export control position

Safety Sensitive:

This is not a safety sensitive position

Contingent Upon Award Program

This position is not contingent upon program award

Experience Level:

Individual Contributor - 5

Job Type:

Regular

Job Code:

BAUHI5 (B82)

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