Technology Portfolio Manager - Electronics and Digital technologies

MDA•Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Technology Portfolio Manager reports to the Director, Technology strategy and is part of the Chief Architect Office. The responsibilities include facilitating and managing early technology developments as well as identifying, capturing, documenting and communicating development and innovation in order to facilitate the transfer of applicable technologies into products and programs. The main objectives are performing market analysis, facilitating and managing technology road mapping, creating and managing internal R&D activities, collaborating with industry and universities, and identifying and capturing innovation and intellectual property generated during technology development.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent technical diploma
10+ years of experience in a relevant technical field, ideally exposed to satellite subsystems
In-depth knowledge of relevant technologies, products, services and methods
Excellent analytical and innovation skills
Strong business acumen to find optimal solutions from a technical, risk, schedule and cost perspective
Excellent knowledge of the industry and the market
Proven ability to manage multiple priorities at once
Motivated and interpersonal skills
Team player and demonstrate a high level of integrity
Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team made up of engineers from various backgrounds
Ability to work independently
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work under pressure
Ability to work with various levels of the business including sales team, senior executives and VPs
Places strong emphasis on achieving agreed results and ensures that key objectives are achieved
Strongly results oriented and demonstrates excellent critical thinking
Works well in a dynamic environment where some of the parameters are unknown and change regularly
Demonstrates excellent ability to cope with heavy workload periods
Successful candidates must obtain and hold security clearance at the SECRET status level II, and pass security assessment for the Controlled Goods Program (CGP).
Successful candidates must obtain and hold security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Controlled Goods Program (CGP).

Nice To Haves

Masters or PhD

Responsibilities

Understand and highlight technology development needs in order to reduce risk, reduce cost, reduce mass and reduce AIT time for products and projects with an emphasis on constellations and high-volume production.
Conduct market assessments of latest technologies and products to inform technology development strategy.
Establish development roadmaps for key technology thrusts based on contributions from clients and the new business group, reports and market analysis, competition assessment, trend analysis of requirements, SWOT analysis, company business objectives, and lessons learned from programs and existing products.
Present technology roadmaps to internal stakeholders and external customers.
Identify new technologies and then the risk, validate, qualify and inject into products and programs.
Propose internal Research and Development (R&D) activities to develop new technologies, improve existing technologies and develop products using these technologies.
Collaborate with long-term technology partners to ensure that their technology development remains aligned with internal needs.
Identify external funding opportunities for technology development.
Lead the development of external funding proposals, as appropriate, with support from engineering and business development managers as needed.
Manage small to medium sized development programs and activities, internally or externally funded, adhering to program management best practices and managing allocated budget and schedule.
Build long-term relationships with technology development partners from industry, academia and government agencies.
Contribute to the annual internal R&D plan.
Promote technological innovation throughout the company.
Identify newly developed intellectual property and populate the intellectual property catalog accordingly.
Execute the processes associated with the intellectual property strategy.
Register patents with the help of inventors and external IP advisors.
Participate in certain technical conferences related to the technologies.
Support bids and proposals with technical and programmatic technology inputs related to technologies.
Provide expert guidance to Engineering, Program Management Office, and Manufacturing.
Communicate results on latest technology development activities.
Identification of critical cost reductions.
Guidance in the development of a program baseline.
Identification of critical cost reductions opportunities.