IT Program Manager

Overview

Keysight is a mission-critical design enablement partner for organizations solving the world’s most complex engineering challenges. With deep engineering expertise and leading design, emulation, and test solutions, our ~16,800 employees help customers in over 100 countries accelerate innovation across communications, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace and defense, semiconductor, and artificial intelligence markets. Learn more about what we do.

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Responsibilities

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Program Manager to join our Platform Engineering organization. This role will drive strategic initiatives across compute, build infrastructure, and Software Engineering Centers of Excellence (COEs) while also supporting organizational budget, financial, and asset management.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical program management experience with financial acumen and can partner effectively across Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and leadership teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex, cross-functional programs across compute, platform engineering, build infrastructure, and software engineering COEs.
• Develop and manage program plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, resources, and budgets to ensure delivery on time and within budget.
• Establish program governance, metrics, dashboards, executive reporting, and regular operating rhythms.
• Partner with engineering leaders to identify risks, resolve dependencies, and drive execution across multiple teams.
• Support annual budget planning, forecasting, budget-versus-actual tracking, and financial reporting for the broader organization.
• Provide visibility into spending, financial commitments, variances, and opportunities for cost optimization.
• Support asset and infrastructure financial management, including investment planning, utilization, lifecycle/refresh planning, and CapEx/OpEx management.
• Develop business cases and financial analyses to support investment and prioritization decisions.
• Partner with engineering leaders to establish and scale engineering COEs, best practices, and operational processes.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering planning, execution, financial governance, and organizational efficiency.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of overall industry experience, preferably in technology, engineering, or infrastructure organizations.
• 10+ years of project/program management experience managing complex, cross-functional technical initiatives.
• Experience with compute infrastructure, platform engineering, build infrastructure, developer platforms, or software engineering environments.
• Strong financial acumen with demonstrated experience in budget planning, forecasting, financial tracking, and variance management.
• Experience with organizational budget and/or asset management, including infrastructure investments and CapEx/OpEx.
• Strong proficiency with Jira and project/program management tools, including dashboards and executive reporting.
• Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and drive alignment across Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Operations, and leadership teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, or Developer Productivityorganizations.
• Experience establishing or supporting Software Engineering COEs.
• Experience with portfolio management, capacity planning, and investment prioritization.
• PMP, PgMP, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent certification is a plus.

The successful candidate will bring together execution discipline, technical understanding, and financial rigor to ensure strategic engineering initiatives are delivered predictably while helping leadership effectively manage organizational investments, budgets, and assets.

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