Principal Digital Thread Functional Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the functional lead for initiatives focused on integrating enterprise digital threads across engineering, product lifecycle, manufacturing, and business systems.

• Define and uphold the functional intent, scope, requirements, and anticipated outcomes for cross-system integrations.

• Convert business and product lifecycle processes into integration requirements, use cases, data flows, and acceptance criteria.

• Ensure that integration designs maintain business context, data integrity, traceability, and lifecycle relationships across various systems.

• Collaborate with business process owners and technical architects to bridge gaps between business requirements and technical implementation.

• Assess the cross-system impacts and dependencies related to changes in PLM, MES, ERP, integration, and engineering capabilities.

• Lead planning efforts and create integrated plans for complex cross-platform initiatives.

• Oversee daily execution across functional teams, technical teams, suppliers, consultants, and business stakeholders.

• Track progress and implement corrective measures when execution diverges from the planned approach.

• Coordinate requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and transition-to-operations activities.

• Establish priorities and ensure alignment among stakeholders, technical teams, suppliers, consultants, and program leadership.

• Manage resources, assignments, dependencies, and decision points across various organizations and workstreams.

• Relay the initiative's status, achievements, risks, issues, dependencies, and recommendations to senior and executive stakeholders.

• Facilitate the resolution of intricate cross-functional and cross-system challenges.

• Identify, evaluate, monitor, and mitigate functional, technical, scheduling, dependency, and implementation risks.

• Manage changes in scope and requirements through established governance and change-management processes.

• Maintain documentation related to requirements, decisions, risks, plans, status reports, and other initiative-related materials.

• Conduct post-implementation reviews and integrate lessons learned into future initiatives.

• Seek opportunities to standardize and enhance enterprise digital thread integration patterns, processes, and governance.

⛳️ Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Systems, or a related field with 12–15 years of relevant experience; or a Master's degree with 10–13 years of relevant experience.

• Additional relevant experience may be taken into account in place of a degree where allowed by the applicable job profile.

• Extensive experience leading intricate enterprise technology, systems integration, digital engineering, or business transformation initiatives.

• Proven experience in translating business processes and requirements into system or integration requirements.

• Experience in coordinating efforts across multiple enterprise applications, technical disciplines, organizations, suppliers, and stakeholders.

• Experience in developing and managing project scope, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, requirements, and deliverables.

• Demonstrated understanding of enterprise system integration concepts, data flows, interfaces, and system dependencies.

• Experience in resolving highly complex cross-functional issues involving business processes and technology.

• Proven ability to communicate complex concepts, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior and executive leadership.

• Preferred: Familiarity with integrated PLM, MES, ERP, and engineering toolchains that support a digital thread or digital engineering environment.

• Preferred: Experience with PTC Windchill PLM, iBase-t Solumina MES, Deltek Costpoint ERP, eQube-MI, or eQube-BI.

• Preferred: Experience with systems engineering and requirements platforms such as Cameo, DOORS, Jama, or PTC RV&S.

• Preferred: Experience with engineering and CAD platforms like Creo or SolidWorks.

• Preferred: Knowledge of product definition, configuration management, engineering change, MBOM, manufacturing planning, effectivity, and product lifecycle processes.

• Preferred: Experience in defining or analyzing interfaces, data mappings, system-of-record ownership, transactional flows, and cross-system business rules.

• Preferred: Experience working with APIs, middleware, enterprise integration platforms, or integration architecture teams.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting aerospace, defense, regulated manufacturing, or complex engineered-product environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time telework from any U.S. based location.