Principal Digital Thread Functional Lead

Employer description

​​​​​​Leidos Chief Information Office (CIO) Digital Thread team, reporting through the Digital Sector,​ is seeking a Principal Digital Thread Functional Lead. In this role, you will help scale Leidos manufacturing for the future by modernizing the systems, integrations, and infrastructure that connect product development to product realization. Our team enables the digital thread that moves critical product and manufacturing information across engineering, planning, and production – helping teams turn product designs into producible, deliverable solutions.

​This role provides functional leadership for the enterprise integrations connecting product definition, engineering, manufacturing, planning, and business systems across the digital thread. You will lead cross-platform initiatives and coordinates 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. You will serve as the bridge between business processes and technical implementation, ensuring integration solutions address enterprise requirements and preserve the intended meaning, quality, and lifecycle of information as it moves between systems. You will provide leadership across multiple concurrent initiatives and works closely with business process owners, functional and technical architects, suppliers, program teams, and executive stakeholders.

Location: This position offers full time telework from any U.S. based location.

Citizenship: This position requires U.S. Citizenship.

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​Primary Responsibilities

​Digital Thread & Functional Integration Leadership

​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.

​Initiative Planning & Execution

​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.

​Stakeholder & Resource Coordination

​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.

​Risk, Change & Continuous Improvement

​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.

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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. Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree where permitted by the applicable job profile. ​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. ​

About Leidos

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

If you’re looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We’re not hiring followers. We’re recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We’re already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:October 8, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.