Defense Engines AI Transformation Leader

Transform engine and spare-part delivery for Defense Engines & Services (DES). This role owns the product vision, roadmap, and end-to-end lifecycle for the data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) capability that makes that transformation possible. Act as the customer representative for a portfolio of interdependent products spanning new engine production and Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO), from demand and forecast through fulfillment and service and support.

Success is measured through DES KPIs, led by on-time delivery and spare-part output, then inventory and net productivity.

This is a forward-deployed role. You will work alongside the planners, operators, and engineers who own the delivery, and you will build digital capability with them, taking AI-enabled ideas from concept to medium and high-fidelity working prototypes on real production data.

This role will also require in-person attendance for New Hire Orientation on Day 1

In this role, you will:

• Own all aspects of the lifecycle (planning, forecasting, production) for multiple interdependent data, analytics, and AI products that together form the DES delivery transformation program and represent the customer in every scope and sequencing tradeoff.

• Build and maintain the DES data and analytics product roadmap, sequence it against the constraints that actually limit engine and spare-part output, and identify and secure the stakeholders needed to support it.

• Stand up self-service data and analytics on manufacturing, quality, and delivery data so planners, buyers, and shop leaders answer their own questions in the moment rather than opening a DT ticket. This closes the single largest capability gap in the portfolio.

• Operationalize and sustain value from advanced analytics and agentic AI investments, and move proven prototypes inside the operating model rather than leaving them adjacent to it, where they stay advisory.

• Partner with central DT and Enterprise Data on data fabric and ontology adoption so DES manufacturing, quality, and delivery data is modeled once and reused across products.

• Take AI-enabled ideas from concept to working software. Build low-fidelity proofs to test feasibility, then advance the survivors to medium and high-fidelity prototypes on real production data, in the hands of real users, and decide quickly which ones earn production investment and which get killed.

• Work forward-deployed. Embed with operators, planners, and engineers at the Genba, build with them rather than collecting requirements and handing them off, and stay on the problem until the capability is in use.

• Use rapid prototyping as a countermeasure inside Daily Management, converting Key Performance Indicator (KPI) and Targets to Improve (TTI) gaps into working capability in weeks rather than quarters.

• Define the value case in delivery terms up front (engine days, turnaround time, schedule adherence, inventory turns, cost), drive early materialization of benefits, and report outcomes against the 2026 DES measures. Stop or redirect work that does not move a delivery number.

• Influence Executive Band (EB) leaders and below on investment decisions, and partner with business, finance, and DT leadership to align Digital Technology spend with value stream priorities.

• Set data and AI standards across the DES horizontal so use, implementation, support, and technical integrity stay consistent and do not fragment by product line.

• Operate as a player-coach. Mentor product managers and engineers on systems thinking for large-scale problems, lean and experimental product practice, and raise the team's data and AI fluency.

• Manage supplier and contractor partners delivering analytics and AI…