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Principal Technical Program Manager

GE HealthCare

Chicago, ILJob$152–228K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$152–228K/yr
Location
Chicago, IL
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

GE HealthCare seeks a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead its TPM organization and strategic portfolio execution across Digital, Cloud, and AI initiatives. The role oversees cross-functional programs and shared services in a regulated healthcare environment, aligning business strategy, customer outcomes, and execution. It establishes governance, manages portfolio risks and dependencies, supports investment decisions, and communicates portfolio health and outcomes to senior leaders.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

People LeadershipProgram ManagementPortfolio ManagementTeam BuildingCoachingStakeholder ManagementCross-Functional Program ManagementPortfolio PlanningDependency ManagementRisk MitigationExecutive GovernanceOrganizational EscalationSoftware Development LifecycleAI Development LifecycleCloud PlatformsAgile DeliveryProduct DevelopmentExecutive CommunicationFacilitationNegotiationEnterprise Planning ToolsDigital TransformationCloud ModernizationPlatform AdoptionOrganizational ChangeHealthcare TechnologyMedical DevicesQuality SystemsCompliancePrivacyCybersecurityRisk ManagementResponsible AIComplexity SimplificationStrategic Execution

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Program Management, or Related Field10+ Years Program or Portfolio Management5+ Years Leading TPM TeamsPMP CertificationLean/Six Sigma Certification

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off
401(k) Match
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

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.

We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

For U.S. based positions only, the pay range for this position is $152,000.00-$228,000.00 Annual. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the pay range and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including skills, qualifications, experience and location. In addition, this position may also be eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). GE HealthCare offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, and tuition reimbursement.

Additional Information

GE HealthCare offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) . 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

How this job compares

Set against the 954 open Technical Program Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$152–228K/yr
  • Illinois median$117–232K/yr22 salary ranges
  • US median$147–237K/yr862 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $190K, is 4% above the Illinois median midpoint ($182K) — in the middle half of Technical Program Management salary ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 24 open Technical Program Management jobs in Illinois and 954 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Technical Program Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 701 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 201 of the 954 open Technical Program Management jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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