Description
The Boeing Company is seeking a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Data Analytics Engineering & Integration team. As a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, you will own the entire design lifecycle of our data-driven applications and platforms, combining UI/UX craft with product strategy to optimize supply chain operations, engineering processes, and manufacturing efficiencies.
Responsibilities:
- Own the full design lifecycle of data products – from early product concepts and high-level workflows to micro-interactions and crisp, effective visual design.
- Develop a strategic vision and product roadmap for data products and solutions that support supply chain, engineering, and manufacturing functions, aligning design decisions with company objectives, roadmap goals, and market demands.
- Build and iterate on a working ontology – modeling objects, properties, links, and actions – so applications are grounded in a shared, accurate representation of BDS operational data.
- Conduct user research: run surveys, interviews, scripted usability tests, contextual inquiry, and A/B testing to understand user pain points and needs; visit customer offices to learn from the users we serve.
- Pair qualitative research with quantitative signals such as product and usage metrics to validate decisions and prioritize work.
- Build wireframes, user flows, and interactive prototypes, both to communicate designs and to validate decisions.
- Establish and maintain the design system: typography, color palettes, components, and micro-interactions that keep the product consistent and scalable.
- Ship hands-on: prototype and build out products alongside engineers, treating them as partners; be fluent enough using Palantir Foundry.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams – product managers, developers, and researchers – to balance user goals with technical and business constraints.
- Define and document product requirements, including data sources, data processing, and analytics capabilities; manage and prioritize the product backlog based on changing requirements.
- Oversee all stages of product creation including design, development, testing, and deployment, ensuring products meet quality and performance standards.
- Write strong user stories that capture complete requirements and relate to portfolio value.
- Define key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness and impact of data solutions; track and analyze product performance metrics and prepare reports and presentations for senior management.
- Facilitate communication between technical and non-technical teams to ensure alignment on project goals and deliverables.
- Participate in Scrum meetings and product sprints as a leader and champion of the SAFe process.
Requirements:
- 3+ years’ experience with taxonomy and ontology development
- 5+ years of experience in preparing, conducting and analyzing user research
- 5+ years’ experience with analytics tools including Tableau, SQL, R, and Python
- 5+ years’ experience with products developed using Agile software development practices and familiarity with Tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, Confluence
- Experience working within a Scrum team or in similar Agile project setups
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement
- Experience with product design and processes
- 5+ years’ experience working with aerospace systems?
Preferred Qualifications:
- Palantir Foundry hands-on experience at a Level 5 / expert tier – building operational applications on an ontology.
- Experience as a hands-on designer who ships code every week, or a researcher who shares detailed user research findings with the team.
- Experience in the aerospace industry, supply chain, manufacturing and engineering.
- 10+ years of experience in a technology or design leadership role
Benefits:
- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities
- Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs
Salary Range: $182,750--$264,500