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.

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 Dev Ops, 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.

• 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.

• Serve as the primary IT Applications point of contact for Engineering Dev Ops.
• Partner with Engineering Dev Ops to understand and support development tool chains, 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.

• Coordinate the lifecycle management…