Platform Portfolio Manager/Project Engineering Manager – PEM II

About the role

Our Platform Engineering (PE) group manages an on-premises Virtual Cloud Computing Center (VC3). We are seeking a Platform Portfolio Manager to lead engineering efforts for PE projects ensuring solutions meet internal tenant technical, schedule and budget requirements.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Platform Engineering Director, Deputy Director, Platform Engineering Managers, and Chief Engineer and functional staff to execute projects, deploy capabilities and sustain the platform engineering environments that meet our tenant needs
• Identify and communicate technical risks and opportunities between the design team, Chief Engineer and platform engineering management team
• Collaborate with disciplines, functions and business areas across the ES sector and BAE Systems to effectively support engineering across the enterprise
• Meet cost, schedule and technical performance for projects through their life cycle
• Serve as overall customer (internal tenant) engineering point of contact for the project
• Identify and support the development of critical skills and resources
• Develop and maintain measures related to engineering performance
• Ensure proper application of process based on the size and complexity of the project
• Establish goals, performance standards, budgets and staffing plans
• Improve processes and skills that accelerate program execution and improve quality
• Lead and develop others
• Manage a group of DevOps engineers, providing technical mentoring, career guidance, and performance feedback
• Support recruiting, interviewing, and hiring of new team members to meet business needs
• Cultivate and maintain a safe, inclusive, and collaborative team culture

Requirements

• Hold a current/active Secret security clearance
• Bachelor's Degree and 10 years work experience, or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated ability to develop, lead, and motivate technical teams
• Experience leading or collaborating with cross-site, cross-functional teams
• Experience leading diverse multi-disciplinary teams in the solution of complex technical problems
• Strong team building skills that enable collaboration and coordination within and across teams, functions, and other business units
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate with team members, stakeholders and leaders
• Experience leading technical presentations and troubleshooting sessions
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple complex projects and timelines
• Ability to brief complex information to senior leaders and stakeholders

Preferred

• Experience developing and delivering within a digital engineering ecosystem
• Experience with DevOps, DevSecOps, Software Management, Site Reliability Engineering, Kubernetes or similar domain
• Strong background in systems engineering and requirements management