Senior Technical Program Manager - ADGS at Keysight Technologies in Santa Rosa, CA

Job description

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 . At Keysight, people come together to explore new ideas, challenge what's possible, and advance the technologies defining the future. Here, you'll find opportunities to do your best work, take your career further, and thrive in an award-winning culture . Learn more about our benefits . Responsibilities About the Role We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to own the outcome of programs for Aerospace and Defense group. Accountability extends beyond schedule to the solution itself: delivered on time, at target cost, with the performance that differentiates it. The role sits at the intersection of system engineering, software test development, manufacturing, and business development, and carries accountability for what those teams collectively deliver without direct authority over any of them. The work is genuinely cross-disciplinary: system design and integration impacts software readiness affect qualification schedules, and a change on one side of that boundary creates hidden risk on the other. The role requires enough technical depth to understand both halves of that system, to recognize a developing failure mode before it is reported, and to drive the resulting decision through to a conclusion. This is a senior-level role. You will be expected to bring structure to ambiguity, make judgment calls on incomplete information, and examine plans and readiness claims closely: whether a schedule carries realistic slack, whether test coverage assumes the first build works, whether a supplier commitment has been confirmed. Where a plan does not hold up, we expect you to say so and to implement corrective actions. Responsibilities Program Leadership & Execution Serve as the primary program leader, ensuring alignment between customer objectives, contractual commitments, technical execution plans, and business goals. Develop and maintain integrated program schedules, resource plans, budgets, risk registers, and key performance metrics. Monitor program performance and recommend corrective actions to maintain commitments and achieve program objectives. Establish and lead regular program reviews with engineering teams, executive leadership, and key stakeholders. Technical Leadership & System Integration Translate customer mission requirements and operational needs into actionable program plans, deliverables, schedules, and engineering objectives. Collaborate with engineering teams to resolve technical challenges, integration issues, resource conflicts, and execution barriers. Risk, Scope & Change Management Identify, evaluate, communicate, and mitigate technical, schedule, cost, resource, and supply chain risks throughout the program lifecycle. Manage program scope, customer change requests, contract modifications, engineering change processes, and internal governance activities. Ensure alignment between customer requirements, program commitments, resources, and business priorities. Escalate critical issues appropriately and drive resolution across organizational boundaries. Operations, Supply Chain & Deployment Coordinate procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, and deployment activities to support successful program execution. Ensure materials, equipment, and resources are available to support project schedules and customer commitments. Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to mitigate supply chain and delivery risks. Business Growth & Strategic Planning Support proposal development, customer engagements, technical planning, cost estimating, and p