Technical Program Manager, Digital Thread

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

The Business Systems team is responsible for building and improving the many business systems that enables Anduril to accomplish its mission. Anduril's supply chain, accounting, sales & growth, people, engineering, field maintenance, quality, manufacturing, and many more teams rely on the technology built by us. We work across the company to ensure we have the tools and capabilities necessary for mission success.

The Technical Program Manager, Digital Thread will be responsible for leading the development, implementation, and ongoing optimization of our internally developed iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) called Chidori. The successful candidate will ensure the completeness and health of our digital thread across the organization, leveraging digital engineering principles. This role requires a deep understanding of various integration facets and strong project and product management skills to drive our digital transformation vision forward.

Key Responsibilities

You will be responsible for:

• Lead the development and implementation of our integration strategy, ensuring seamless connectivity of data and processes across the product lifecycle.
• Manage digital engineering initiatives, ensuring the adoption of model-based systems engineering practices throughout the organization.
• Develop and maintain a roadmap for our integration platform, prioritizing features that enhance our systems engineering capabilities.
• Collaborate with various teams to identify integration requirements and design effective solutions using our platform.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to implement digital engineering projects and ensure successful delivery.
• Establish and maintain best practices for integration development, testing, and deployment using our platform.
• Provide technical guidance and support to teams utilizing the integration platform for their engineering and business needs.
• Stay informed on the latest trends in digital engineering, model-based systems engineering, and integration technologies to drive innovation within our platform.

Required Characteristics:

Anduril is an extremely fast-paced defense technology startup that is rapidly scaling itself. Our culture is one of ambition, hard work, relentless pursuit of excellence, and deliberate disruption. The successful candidate will be one who demonstrates the following core characteristics:

• Bias for Action - they ask for forgiveness, not permission, and hate the idea of waiting around to be told what to do. They’ve never seen a wall you haven’t wanted to run through!
• Outcome-Oriented - They determine what the business needs and work backwards from those outcomes, rather than working forwards from a particular system’s capabilities
• Customer Focused - They display deep user empathy to boost engagement and build experiences that delight
• Dive Deep - They sweat the details and roll up their sleeves to uncover the root causes for systemic issues. They eat metrics for breakfast!
• Ownership - They care deeply not just about their program, but for all the business outcomes that their program supports, holding themselves accountable for everything it both does and fails to do
• Agility - They change directions easily and without regret, quickly adapting to shifting business priorities
• First Principles Thinking - They approach problems and develop solutions not based on what a vendor recommends or because it’s how they did things at their last job, but from a deep appreciation of what is best for the enterprise

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technical program management, with at least 2 years focusing on systems integration, digital engineering, or similar technologies.
• Strong technical knowledge of digital engineering principles, model-based systems engineering, iPaaS, API management, and various integration patterns.
• Experience leading the development and implementation of large-scale integration initiatives or similar technical projects.
• In-depth understanding of