Lead, Engineering Applications & Integrations

Twenty-Six Defense Maritime, a Twenty-Six Defense company, is a world leader in the design, development, testing and production of complex electromechanical systems and sensors, including Sparton sonobuoys. The company delivers a variety of sensing and advanced analytics capabilities that enable our nation to dominate the maritime domain.

Job Summary

The Engineering Applications Lead serves as the primary Information Technology partner and application portfolio owner for the Engineering organization. This position is responsible for aligning engineering application capabilities with business objectives, developing and maintaining the Engineering applications roadmap, and coordinating the implementation, integration, support, and lifecycle management of applications used throughout Engineering.

The role works closely with Engineering leadership, Engineering DevOps, application administrators, developers, Infrastructure, Information Security, business systems teams, and external vendors to ensure Engineering applications are reliable, secure, integrated, and aligned with current and future business requirements.

The Engineering Applications Lead combines business process knowledge with technical application expertise and serves as the primary point of coordination between Engineering and IT for application-related initiatives.

Responsibilities

and Tasks Engineering Partnership & Portfolio Ownership Serve as the primary IT Applications liaison and strategic partner for the Engineering organization. Own the Engineering application portfolio and maintain a comprehensive understanding of application capabilities, dependencies, integrations, business criticality, and lifecycle status.

Partner with Engineering leadership and stakeholders to understand business objectives, operational challenges, technology requirements, and future capabilities. Develop and maintain an Engineering applications roadmap aligned with Engineering and organizational priorities. Evaluate existing applications and identify opportunities for modernization, consolidation, replacement, standardization, or improved integration.

Assist Engineering and IT leadership with application investment decisions, prioritization, budgeting, licensing, and resource planning. Establish clear business and technical ownership for applications within the Engineering portfolio. Ensure application changes are appropriately documented and transitioned into operational support.

Identify opportunities to improve Engineering processes through automation, workflow improvements, application configuration, and system integration. Coordinate requirements validation, testing, user acceptance testing, release planning, deployment, and stakeholder communication. Engineering DevOps & Application Integration Serve as the primary IT Applications point of contact for Engineering DevOps.

Partner with Engineering DevOps to understand and support development toolchains, repositories, application dependencies, workflows, and integration requirements. Coordinate with Infrastructure and Information Security on hosting, networking, identity, authentication, certificates, security controls, vulnerability management, monitoring, backup, and other technical dependencies.

Work with application developers, integration resources, database administrators, and other technical teams to design and implement integrations between Engineering applications and enterprise systems. Promote standardized and supportable integration patterns, APIs, authentication methods, and data exchanges. Identify legacy or redundant integrations and develop plans to modernize or eliminate unnecessary technical dependencies.

Application Lifecycle & Operational Management Coordinate the lifecycle management of Engineering applications, including upgrades, patches, migrations, replacements, and retirement. Maintain awareness of vendor roadmaps, product lifecycle dates, licensing changes, security concerns, and emerging capabilities. Coordinate resolution of significant or recurring application incidents and problems with internal technical teams and external vendors.

Identify technical debt and develop remediation plans in partnership with Engineering and IT teams. Establish and maintain appropriate application documentation, including system ownership, architecture, integrations, dependencies, support procedures, configurations, and recovery requirements. Coordinate vendor relationships, technical support cases, professional services, and consulting resources associated with Engineering applications.

Participate in licensing reviews, renewals, vendor evaluations, and application budgeting activities. Security, Risk & Compliance Partner with Information Security to ensure Engineering applications comply with organizational cybersecurity policies and applicable regulatory and contractual requirements. Coordinate implementation of appropriate identity, authentication, authorization, logging, data protection, vulnerability management, and configuration-management controls.

Support periodic access reviews and ensure application access models follow established organizational standards. Assist with audit and compliance activities involving Engineering applications, including evidence collection and remediation activities. Participate in risk assessments for new applications, major changes, integrations, and externally hosted services.

Ensure application architecture and data flows are appropriately documented and understood. Education, Experience, Licenses and Certifications Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and professional experience.

Five or more years of experience supporting enterprise applications, engineering applications, business systems, PLM/ALM platforms, DevOps environments, or related technologies. Demonstrated experience partnering with business or Engineering stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver technology solutions. Experience leading or coordinating application implementations, upgrades, migrations, integrations, or other cross-functional technology initiatives.

Working knowledge of enterprise application architecture, databases, APIs, integrations, authentication, authorization, and application lifecycle management. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements and solutions. Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business users, vendors, and leadership.

Ability to manage multiple initiatives and priorities across a diverse application portfolio. Skills and Abilities US Citizenship is required Experience supporting Engineering or product-development organizations. Experience with one or more of the following: GitLab, Jama, Jira, Oracle Agile PLM, Solid. Works, Sonar. Qube, Subversion, Smart.

Bear Collaborator, or comparable platforms. Experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), requirements management, source control, CI/CD, or DevOps technologies. Experience integrating Engineering systems with ERP, manufacturing, identity, data, or other enterprise platforms.

Experience working within manufacturing, aerospace, defense, or another regulated industry. Familiarity with cybersecurity and compliance frameworks applicable to controlled or regulated environments. Experience working with SaaS, cloud-hosted, and on-premises enterprise applications. Travel and Physical Requirements Some travel may be required.

The physical demands describe here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. This job operates in a professional office environment and a manufacturing environment.

The employee may be exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to a variety of extreme conditions in the plant. The noise level in the work environment may be loud. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, talk, and communicate, use hands/finger, feel, and reach with arms.

This position requires the ability to lift, bend or stoop as necessary up to 20lbs.

Benefits

Highlights Healthcare Robust medical, dental, vision, & disability coverage. Healthcare concierge to help you navigate your benefit selections. Virtual health solutions for physical therapy, menopause, and diabetes. Company paid Basic Life Insurance. Additional Life & AD&D Insurances are available. On-site wellness clinic.

Paid Benefits Competitive compensation. ​401k program to plan for your future with company match 75% up to 8% Company Paid Time Off (Vacation and Sick). Paid parental leave. Adoption assistance. Fertility and family building assistance. Additional Benefits Flexible work schedules available based on position: 9/80 schedule providing every other Friday off 5/8s 4/10s 3/12s Lifestyle spending account.

Perks at work. Generous employee referral program. Tuition reimbursement. Voluntary benefits available: longer term care, legal, identity theft, pet Insurance, and many more options These are highlights of Twenty-Six Defense benefits. If there is a conflict with these highlights, company policy or benefits plan documents shall govern.

Benefits

are subject to change. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled Accessibility Twenty-Six Defense Maritime is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please email us at Disclaimer: This job description does not list all the duties of the job.

You may be asked by your supervisors or managers to perform other duties. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. The job description is not a contract for employment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

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