Lead Project Engineer

• This role is responsible for providing program execution leadership on a GBE Release Train portfolio and managing multidisciplinary (Software, Hardware, Firmware) product delivery lifecycle from inception to successful Business-Case realization.
• The Program Manager would take a General Manager s view to the program assuming accountability of program, collaborate across cross-functional teams leading value delivery through phases of our Z21 NPI process.

• Lead a portfolio of programs for products (including related adjacencies) for a business.
• Lead a team of project / program managers working on the same product portfolio on related / contributing programs.
• Prioritize efforts for maximizing business impact within the release train and work with other release train leaders within / across GBE portfolio to identify & prioritize dependencies for the projects
• Collaboratively Manage Cross-Release Train Dependencies and Resolve Risks
• Collaborate with Offering Leadership to complete Business Case & Concept Development : Drives focus on voice of customer, appropriately defined offering-scope, and planned business case investments (for material / labor / travel / risks mitigation), influencing decisions in the early phases

Oversee and drive Program Delivery Planning :

• Collaborate with Engineering & other cross-functional stakeholders to translate business case / MVO / concept definition (outlined as EPICs/Capabilities) into engineering deliverables and implementation plan (PI roadmap).
• Work with all stakeholders to refine estimates, plan mitigations for technical risks / dependencies, while balancing costs, resources, vendors, etc to accomplished delivery planning.

• Lead Execution & Manage Delivery : Uses an agile leader approach, collaborate with x-functional stakeholders, and ensure first-time right execution (on products & solutions delivery). Lead execution proactively and leverage tools (and metrics) to improve transparency on quality / on-time launch predictability for stakeholders and leadership.
• Provide consultation support to coach / optimize / match people, technology, processes, and tools, for the team to improve efficiency of delivery.

Support Launch & Go-live :

• Collaborate with Offering & Global / Regional Sales stakeholders to ensure Marketing Communications, Demand generation, launch planning are completed in alignment with business goals.
• Ensure mechanisms for Revenue generation & tracking are ready for the Launch. Drive accountability within Product Management, Offering Leadership, Global / Regional Business & Finance stakeholders to ensure successful Go-Live.

• Drive transparency and predictability (early warning indicators) within the product delivery portfolio, across Release Trains, le veraging available tools / dashboards / metrics (effort, schedule, cost, revenue, defects, risks, impediments )
• Focus on On-time, On-Cost (EAC and UPC) launches for supporting Revenue goals of the business for NPI & O&M efforts.
• Schedule, Cost, and Effort Compliance : On-time Launch, Revenue Say / Do, and continuous incremental improvement of delivery cycle time.
• Strengthen deployment of Z21 Process in NPI Phase gate artifact compliance (drive accountability in contributing functions) .100% coverage in all NPIs within Release Train.

• People Management : Be committed to train, motivate, and enable employees with a goal to optimize workplace productivity and promote professional growth. Critical focus areas are conflict resolution, building competencies, scaling team and organizational capabilities.
• Business and Financial Acumen : Have a fundamental understanding of markets, customer segments, pricing, finance & business goals. Collaborate with Engineering and Business leadership to drive Make-vs-Buy decisions, optimize ROI and time to market.
• Risk Management: Manage the process of identification, assessment, mitigation and control, resolution of Tier 2/ 3/ 4 risks by working with cross functional teams and respective Project Managers.
• Influencing & Communicating (Executive Presence) : Great communicator, ability to influence teams, orienting them to be self-performing, and deliver business value. Have ability to communicate efficiently and effectively (written / oral / presentation) across large spectrum of leadership hierarchies to enable transparency & garner support as necessary to resolve strategic / operational challenges.
• Negotiation, Stakeholder Management : Proficient in negotiation (creating win-win outcomes) & influencing in a multi-cultural setup; Ability to drive consensus in a diverse set of stakeholders
• W2W Project Management : Plans and executes with project management principles / practices across x-functional teams (ISC, Marketing, Legal, Sales, Operations, etc); drives estimation, dependencies, milestones, and integration goals
• Program Portfolio Performance / Status management and reporting to Executives and Leadership per organizational cadence.
• Problem Solving : Follows a structured problem-solving approach; d emonstrates thought and operational agility in dealing with uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, in execution and decisions.

• Technical : Solid understanding of engineering (Software, Electrical, Mechanical) life cycle models. Exposure to Cloud, IOT, Data analytics, UI Technologies, Embedded Firmware is preferred. Control Systems domain knowledge preferable.

• Vendor Management : Effectively builds partnering relationships with 3rd party ODMs/OEMs, Vendor evaluation, interface, and management as required.
• Agile : Expertise on Scaled Agile methodologies, catalyst in transforming organizational culture to bring in agility & predictability in delivery.

• Graduate in Engineering, or Masters in Math / Science / Computers, with overall >17 Yrs. of experience and >10 yrs in end-to-end multi-site / global product program management.
• Must Have : Exposure to Multi-disciplinary (H/w, S/w, F/w) programs incl. Vendor & Supplier engagement / management.
• Experience in program execution with Agile CI / CD, exposure to roles such as Release Train Engineer / Release Train Program Manager preferred.
• Exposure to tools such as Jira / Rally or equivalent, Microsoft Project, Configuration Management, CI, CD, Visio, and all Microsoft Office Tools
• Experience in leading culturally diverse and geographically distributed teams.
• Proven track record of managing short cycle complex programs and product deliveries creating incremental revenue impact (> Min. $10M Incremental revenue over 3 years based on business case).
• Desired Credentials: PMP / PgMP / PMI-ACP / CSP-SM / SAFe RTE / SPC