The successful candidate will be responsible for providing operation and program management support to our Architecture/Portfolio/IP development team including the following responsibilities: Manage Architecture portfolio end to end across BUs: from conception, product requirements to mature hardware/firmware solutions with the objective to deliver high quality products within schedule and cost. Drive the program management framework (scope, planning, cost) and portfolio execution by developing and maintaining program master schedules and milestones, budgets, work plans and resource requirements. Organize and lead interdepartmental meetings to set project milestones/schedules, plans of records, define project tasks, establish program policies and processes. Troubleshoot program issues and help to develop alternative program tasks, schedules, milestones, resource plans, processes etc. to resolve program issues and conflicts. Develop engineering based performance indicators/metrics geared towards risk identification, assessment, quantification. Determine risks, develop mitigation strategies and communicate information to internal and external key stakeholders. Must be able to proactively drive and solve problems to solutions. Roll-up and report regularly to senior management-executives on key development milestones, budget, metrics, risks and mitigation plans. Establish routine update & communication process: update status, trends vs. baseline, risk management, mitigation and recovery actions. Direct roadmap quotation and PPM activities encompassing scope, PPA, resource gap analysis, planning and cost projections. Manage budget allocation and on-boarding process with Finance / Human Resources. Charter focus on architecture phase and spec alignment with IP development team. Take an active role in innovating and improving the current program management metrics and processes.