Strategic leader reporting to VP Engineering who builds engineering operating systems, drives excellence initiatives, establishes execution cadences, and leads cross-functional programs to improve productivity, predictability, and organizational maturity in an Aerospace & Defense technology environment. Requires 10+ years leadership experience influencing without authority.
210k – 320k/yr
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About the role
What you'll do
Engineering Strategy & Organizational Enablement
Partner with the VP of Engineering to translate business and product strategy into engineering capabilities, operating models, and execution plans.
Develop and evolve the engineering operating system, including planning processes, governance, decision-making frameworks, and organizational rhythms.
Identify capability gaps and recommend investments in people, processes, tooling, and organizational structure.
Engineering Excellence
Define and drive engineering excellence initiatives focused on developer productivity, quality, reliability, operational maturity, and continuous improvement.
Establish engineering effectiveness metrics and dashboards that provide visibility into organizational health, delivery performance, and engineering productivity.
Champion adoption of modern engineering practices, standards, and continuous improvement methodologies.
Operational Cadence & Execution
Establish and facilitate consistent engineering operating cadences including strategic planning, quarterly planning, roadmap reviews, engineering leadership meetings, business reviews, and operational retrospectives/after-action reviews.
Drive accountability for execution across engineering leadership while identifying and resolving organizational bottlenecks.
Improve planning accuracy, prioritization, dependency management, and execution predictability.
Enterprise Engineering Initiatives
Lead complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives that span multiple teams and organizations.
Drive strategic programs such as AI enablement, developer experience improvements, technical governance, and organizational scaling initiatives.
Coordinate executive communications, status reporting, risk management, and stakeholder engagement for enterprise programs.
Organizational Effectiveness
Partner with engineering leaders to improve organizational health, team effectiveness, and leadership maturity.
Standardize engineering processes where appropriate while preserving team autonomy.
Foster a culture of operational excellence, continuous learning, and data-informed decision making.
Required qualifications
10+ years of engineering leadership, technical program management, engineering operations, or related experience.
Demonstrated success leading large-scale cross-functional initiatives in complex technology organizations.
Strong understanding of modern software engineering organizations, Agile development, DevOps, and engineering metrics in the Aerospace & Defense industry.
Proven ability to influence senior leaders without relying on direct authority.
Exceptional communication, facilitation, organizational, and executive presentation skills.
Strong analytical mindset with experience using data to drive organizational improvements.
Preferred qualifications
Experience partnering directly with VP or C-level technology executives.
Experience scaling engineering organizations through periods of rapid growth or transformation.
Familiarity with developer productivity and organizational effectiveness measurement.
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