Principal Technical Program Manager
GE HealthCare · Waukesha
Job Description Summary
At GE HealthCare, we are committed to bringing cloud-based solutions for our customers: Our Science & Technology organization is harnessing the power of technology to make healthcare more precise, more personalized, and more accessible for everyone. The Technical Program Management Manager & Strategic Portfolio lead provides strategic and operational leadership across a complex portfolio of digital platforms, shared services, and cross-segment programs.The role is accountable for establishing a high-performing TPM organization, strengthening program management capabilities, and driving consistent operating mechanisms across the portfolio. The leader ensures that portfolio priorities, investments, dependencies, and execution plans remain aligned with business and customer outcomes. The role also provides portfolio-level visibility, proactively manages risks and escalations, drives adoption and strategic partnerships, and enables informed decisions through clear governance, metrics, and executive communication
Job Description
Responsibilities:
As the Principal Technical Program Manager, you will lead the TPM organization and strategic portfolio execution across Digital, Cloud, and AI initiatives. You will drive cross-functional programs and shared services in a highly regulated healthcare environment, ensuring alignment between business strategy, customer outcomes, and execution excellence.
- TPM Organization Leadership
- Lead and develop a high-performing TPM organization supporting complex, cross-functional programs and shared services.
- Establish clear operating expectations, organizational priorities, and resource allocation aligned with business objectives.
- Coach and develop TPM talent, strengthening program leadership, stakeholder management, execution rigor, and strategic thinking.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence.
- Strategic Portfolio Management
- Drive portfolio planning and execution across products, services, and business segments, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and customer outcomes.
- Coordinate cross-functional initiatives, dependencies, milestones, and investment priorities across the portfolio.
- Partner with segment, product, and engineering leaders to enable adoption of shared platforms and maximize business value.
- Execution, Risk & Dependency Management
- Establish governance and operating mechanisms that improve execution visibility, predictability, and accountability.
- Lead management of portfolio-level risks, dependencies, releases, escalations, and resource constraints.
- Facilitate resolution of cross-team challenges and ensure critical issues are communicated and addressed effectively.
- Standards, Governance & Operational Excellence
- Define and drive adoption of common program management frameworks, tools, metrics, and best practices.
- Standardize planning, reporting, milestone readiness, release management, and portfolio governance processes.
- Ensure portfolio health, compliance requirements, and operational excellence are consistently monitored and improved.
- Financial & Business Management
- Partner with Finance and leadership teams on budget planning, investment prioritization, cloud cost management, and chargeback processes.
- Monitor portfolio performance and provide data-driven recommendations on priorities, investments, and tradeoffs.
- Executive Communication & Stakeholder Engagement
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Quality, Security, and business segments.
- Deliver executive-level reporting on portfolio health, key risks, dependencies, decisions, and outcomes.
- Drive alignment across stakeholder groups and represent a unified portfolio perspective in leadership and business reviews.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Program Management, or a related field. Minimum 10 years of program or portfolio management experience, including 5+ years leading Technical Program Management teams.
- Significant experience leading complex technical programs, strategic portfolios, or program management organizations within a global, matrixed environment.
- Demonstrated people-leadership experience, including building teams, coaching program leaders, setting organizational priorities, and developing talent.
- Strong experience managing cross-functional programs involving Product, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Security, Operations, Finance, and business stakeholders.
- Proven ability to lead portfolio planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, executive governance, and organizational escalation.
- Experience operating across multiple products, platforms, services, geographies, or business segments.
- Strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), AI Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC), cloud platforms, agile delivery methodologies, and product development processes.
- Demonstrated ability to translate strategic priorities into executable plans, governance mechanisms, and measurable outcomes.
- Strong executive communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience using enterprise planning and execution tools such as Aha!, Smartsheet, Rally, Jira, Jama, or comparable platforms.
- Ability to operate effectively in an environment characterized by significant technical complexity, interdependencies, changing priorities, and multiple decision-makers.
Desired Characteristics:
- Proven leadership in digital transformation, including cloud modernization, platform adoption, and organizational change initiatives.
- Experience within healthcare technology, medical devices, or other highly regulated industries, with a strong understanding of quality systems, compliance, privacy, cybersecurity, and risk management.
- Knowledge of AI Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) methodologies, governance frameworks, and responsible AI practices, including deployment of AI-enabled products and services.
- Ability to simplify complexity and create clarity across technical, business, and organizational domains, translating strategy into actionable execution plans.
- Ability to balance tactical execution with long-term strategic objectives while influencing across highly matrixed organizations.
- Current PMP certification preferred.
- Lean/Six Sigma certification preferred.
Additional Information
GE HealthCare offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE HealthCare 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.
GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.
Relocation Assistance Provided: No