PRINCIPAL, IT TRANSFORMATION AND INTEGRATIONBenefits:- 401 (k)
- Group Health & Dental Plan
- Short-&-Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Voluntary Life Insurance
- Holiday & Vacation Pay
- Employee Assistance Program
Position Summary:The Principal, IT Transformation & Integration is a senior individual contributor responsible for driving complex technology transformation, technology-related business process improvement, systems integration, and strategic IT initiatives across the organization. This hands-on role combines business analysis, project leadership, technology integration, process improvement, and change management. The position operates with significant independence to define practical paths forward, remove obstacles, and drive cross-functional initiatives through implementation, operational adoption, and sustainable handoff.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:This position is responsible for the following: Other duties may be assigned.
- Take ownership of complex, cross-functional technology initiatives from problem definition through implementation and operational handoff.
- Translate business needs and loosely defined objectives into clear requirements, solutions, workstreams, ownership, and actionable plans.
- Lead business process analysis and identify opportunities for simplification, standardization, automation, and technology enablement.
- Drive initiatives across business teams, IT, cybersecurity, vendors, and implementation partners, proactively removing obstacles and resolving dependencies.
- Lead technology and business integration activities associated with system implementations, organizational changes, acquisitions, and technology consolidation.
- Coordinate requirements, solution design, testing, data migration, cutover, user readiness, and operational transition, as appropriate.
- Establish the appropriate level of project structure and governance needed to maintain accountability, manage risk, and achieve results.
- Personally engage in analysis, documentation, troubleshooting, coordination, and implementation activities when needed to keep initiatives moving.
- Provide concise, decision-oriented communication to business and technology leadership.
- Ensure implemented solutions achieve intended business outcomes and are successfully transitioned into sustainable operations.
Required Education & Experience:Required:- 10+ years of progressive experience in IT transformation, business analysis, program or project management, systems integration, enterprise applications, or related disciplines.
- Demonstrated success personally driving complex, cross-functional initiatives from ambiguous requirements through implementation.
- Strong business analysis, problem-solving, process-improvement, and project-leadership capabilities.
- Experience translating business requirements into practical technology solutions and implementation plans.
- Strong understanding of enterprise applications, systems integration, technology implementation, and organizational change.
- Ability to operate independently, manage competing priorities, and create structure in ambiguous situations.
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to influence and drive accountability across teams without direct authority.
- Strong bias toward action, ownership, and measurable results.
- Ability and willingness to operate at both strategic and detailed execution levels.
Preferred:- Experience with ERP and other enterprise business-system implementations and integrations.
- Experience with mergers, acquisitions, business integration, or technology consolidation.
- Experience in manufacturing, maritime, shipbuilding, defense, engineering, or another complex operational environment.
- PMP, PgMP, PMI-PBA, CBAP, Prosci, Lean Six Sigma, or comparable certification preferred.
Working Conditions:- Work is primarily performed in an office environment, with visits to operational, production, warehouse, or shipyard areas as business needs require.
- May require travel to company facilities, implementation sites, vendor locations, or business-unit locations.
- Must be able to sit or stand for extended periods and regularly use a computer and standard office equipment.
- Must comply with site-specific safety requirements and wear required personal protective equipment when entering operational areas.
Necessary Equipment Operation:- Computer, laptop, mobile phone, and standard office equipment.
- Enterprise applications, ERP platforms, integration tools, project-management systems, and collaboration software.
- Business-analysis, process-mapping, reporting, testing, documentation, and data-migration tools.
- Standard personal protective equipment when entering designated operational areas.
Special Skills:- Advanced ability to turn complex or ambiguous business and technology challenges into practical, executable plans.
- Strong hands-on leadership across business analysis, systems integration, process improvement, project governance, implementation, and change management.
- Ability to communicate concisely with executives and translate between business, technology, cybersecurity, vendor, and implementation-partner stakeholders.
- Strong ownership, sound judgment, and a results-oriented approach focused on implementation, adoption, and measurable business outcomes.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, resolve dependencies, remove obstacles, and drive accountability without direct authority.
