# Principal Digital Thread Functional Lead **Company**: Leidos **Location**: 6314 Remote/Teleworker US **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/6314-RemoteTeleworker-US/Principal-Digital-Thread-Functional-Lead_R-00194221-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_7268473d-3e2 ## Description Leidos Chief Information Office (CIO) Digital Thread team is seeking a Principal Digital Thread Functional Lead. This role involves scaling Leidos manufacturing for the future by modernizing systems, integrations, and infrastructure that connect product development to product realization. The successful candidate will provide functional leadership for enterprise integrations connecting product definition, engineering, manufacturing, planning, and business systems across the digital thread. They will lead cross-platform initiatives, coordinate requirements, priorities, dependencies, schedules, risks, and stakeholders to enable reliable movement of product and manufacturing data across PLM, MES, ERP, integration middleware, and related engineering systems. **Primary Responsibilities** - Serve as the functional lead for enterprise digital thread integration initiatives spanning engineering, product lifecycle, manufacturing, and business systems. - Define and maintain the functional intent, scope, requirements, and expected outcomes for cross-system integrations. - Translate business and product lifecycle processes into integration requirements, use cases, data flows, and acceptance criteria. - Ensure integration designs preserve business context, data integrity, traceability, and lifecycle relationships as information moves between systems. - Partner with business process owners and technical architects to resolve gaps between business requirements and technical implementation. - Evaluate cross-system impacts and dependencies associated with changes to PLM, MES, ERP, integration, and engineering capabilities. - Lead planning activities by defining objectives, scope, deliverables, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and resource requirements. - Develop and maintain integrated plans for complex cross-platform initiatives. - Coordinate day-to-day execution across functional teams, technical teams, suppliers, consultants, and business stakeholders. - Monitor progress against established objectives and implement corrective actions when execution deviates from plan. - Coordinate requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and transition-to-operations activities. - Establish priorities and alignment among business stakeholders, technical teams, suppliers, consultants, and program leadership. - Coordinate resources, assignments, dependencies, and decision points across multiple organizations and workstreams. - Communicate initiative status, accomplishments, risks, issues, dependencies, and recommendations to senior and executive stakeholders. - Facilitate resolution of complex cross-functional and cross-system issues where ownership or requirements span organizational boundaries. - Identify, assess, track, and mitigate functional, technical, schedule, dependency, and implementation risks. - Manage scope and requirement changes using established governance and change-management processes. - Maintain requirements, decisions, risks, plans, status reporting, and other initiative documentation. - Conduct post-implementation reviews and incorporate lessons learned into future integration standards and approaches. - Identify opportunities to standardize and improve enterprise digital thread integration patterns, processes, and governance. **Basic Qualifications** - Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Systems, or a related discipline with 12–15 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree with 10–13 years of relevant experience. - Significant experience leading complex enterprise technology, systems integration, digital engineering, or business transformation initiatives. - Demonstrated experience translating business processes and requirements into system or integration requirements. - Experience coordinating work across multiple enterprise applications, technical disciplines, organizations, suppliers, and stakeholders. - Experience developing and managing project scope, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, requirements, and deliverables. - Demonstrated understanding of enterprise system integration concepts, data flows, interfaces, and system dependencies. - Experience resolving highly complex cross-functional problems involving business processes and technology. - Demonstrated ability to communicate complex concepts, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior and executive leadership. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience with integrated PLM, MES, ERP, and engineering toolchains supporting a digital thread or digital engineering environment. - Experience with PTC Windchill PLM, iBase-t Solumina MES, Deltek Costpoint ERP, eQube-MI, or eQube-BI. - Experience with systems engineering and requirements platforms such as Cameo, DOORS, Jama, or PTC RV&S. - Experience with engineering and CAD platforms such as Creo or SolidWorks. - Understanding of product definition, configuration management, engineering change, MBOM, manufacturing planning, effectivity, and product lifecycle processes. - Experience defining or analyzing interfaces, data mappings, system-of-record ownership, transactional flows, and cross-system business rules. - Experience working with APIs, middleware, enterprise integration platforms, or integration architecture teams. - Experience supporting aerospace, defense, regulated manufacturing, or complex engineered-product environments. ## Skills ### Required - PLM - MES - ERP - integration middleware - engineering systems - systems engineering - requirements platforms - CAD platforms ### Nice to have - PTC Windchill PLM - iBase-t Solumina MES - Deltek Costpoint ERP - eQube-MI - eQube-BI - Cameo - DOORS - Jama - PTC RV&S - Creo - SolidWorks --- Source: [Apply at leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/6314-RemoteTeleworker-US/Principal-Digital-Thread-Functional-Lead_R-00194221-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)