Senior CBTC Technical Manager

The Rail Infrastructure division of Siemens Mobility is seeking a Senior CBTC Technical Manager in New York, NY. This role involves acting as the technical leader for CBTC systems within rail infrastructure projects. Key responsibilities include:

1. Acting as the Customer’s primary technical interface: Managing and resolving system-level inquiries while maintaining customer satisfaction.
2. Leading systems team activities: Coordinating cross-functional teams to ensure deliverables meet time, quality, and cost objectives.
3. Providing system requirements and ensuring compliance: Leveraging expertise as a "system authority" to guide subsystem design and validate system compatibility.
4. Managing technical work packages: Overseeing work packages across subsystems, operating safety, and cybersecurity to ensure seamless integration.
5. Enhancing technical solutions: Collaborating with work package owners to optimize system outcomes.
6. Consolidating equipment repositories: Ensuring subsystem equipment repositories align and comply with system-wide configurations for testing, warranty, and maintenance.
7. Leading the technical change management process: Guiding the project’s Change Control Board (CCB) to resolve deviations and facilitate change implementation.
8. Preparing technical reporting: Providing detailed updates on system deliverables to the Project Manager and Customer.
9. Facilitating migration planning: Leading integration and migration efforts in collaboration with Rail Infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive technical leadership experience: 5–10 years in systems engineering, rail signaling, CBTC, or complex infrastructure projects, with a minimum of 5 years in a technical role (e.g., Technical Manager or Lead Systems Engineer).
• Team and project management skills: Experience leading engineering teams and overseeing cross-functional work packages (e.g., systems integration, subsystem management, cybersecurity).
• Systems expertise: Experience with requirements definition, integration, validation, and migration planning within large-scale programs.
• Customer-facing technical skills: Proven ability to act as the key technical interface for discussing and resolving customer requirements.
• Change management familiarity: Demonstrated capability to lead technical decision-making, coordinate CCB activities, and resolve system-level challenges while meeting contractual, schedule, and budget requirements.

Why Siemens?

• Freedom and healthy work-life balance
• Competitive total rewards package
• Opportunities to contribute innovative ideas and get paid for them
• Tuition Reimbursement program, Mentor Programs, and online learning opportunities
• Employee perks and discounts
• 401(k) match and generous Paid Time Off

Pay & Benefits

• Annual salary range: $155,754.00 - $170,000.00
• Annual incentive target: 10% of base salary
• Location: New York, NY
• Health, Dental, Vision Insurance, HSA/FSA, Commuter Benefits