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The Engineering Strategic Support Unit comprises the organizational talent and technical leadership that enables the successful delivery of high-impact discriminating technologies for our customers’ missions. Our collaborative, cross-functional teams are committed to innovation, integrity, continual learning and strong execution.

Project Engineer II - Data Management Team

Lead a multi-discipline data management team to meet cost, schedule, and technical requirements on enterprise Digital Transformation Projects, including supporting enterprise data governance office strategic initiatives and projects.

What You’ll Do:

• Manage company-wide technical data priorities in relation to project specific technical and programmatic data priorities via alignment with the Enterprise Data Governance Board.
• Support enterprise data governance strategy initiatives identified as priorities via the Enterprise Data Governance Steering Council via policy recommendations, creation, and communication.
• Coordinate the technical and business-related activities (requirements & data model definition, sample data sets, mock data migration rounds, and data validation by selected end users) including cost, schedule, and resource planning for digital transformation projects and enterprise data governance activities.
• Generate schedule and resource plan for data cleanup activities.
• Support SIT, UAT, and production deployment from a migration resource and schedule perspective.
• Track performance against cost and schedule as well as verifying the effort is meeting the technical specifications to include:
• Ensuring environments are available with proper access – working with IT
• Guiding decision making process holding people accountable
• Be able to provide and communicate understanding of both the technical and programmatic aspects of a project to the project team as well as the internal customers.
• Promote development of a strong data management team by participation in key aspects of the project and mentoring more junior team members. When delegating, establish clear expectations by providing well-defined tasks with clear entrance/exit criteria, due dates, and associated budgets.
• Lead workshops on data identification, cleansing, and enrichment
• Generate cost estimates for updates and additions to existing plans.
• Identify, track, and address risks and opportunities, including helping target programs identify their specific data migration needs.
• Develop detailed data management team schedules and manage/status team activities to meet delivery milestones.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, strong written, communication, oral presentations skills, and ability to lead group discussions.
• Provide timely feedback to team members about his/her performance. Seek opportunities to recognize outstanding performance via the Employee Recognition Process. Address poor performance appropriately.
• Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships within the department, the Strategic Business Units, Strategic Support Units and the Company. Interact appropriately with others in order to maintain a positive and productive work environment.
• Perform other duties as necessary.

What You’ll Need:

• BS degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field is required plus 12 or more years related experience.
• Each higher-level degree, i.e., Master’s Degree or Ph.D., may substitute for two years of experience. Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education. Degree must be from a university, college, or school which is accredited by an agency recognized by the US Secretary of Education, US Department of Education.
• Experience in database development, ETL tools, scripting.
• Understanding of data warehousing concepts.
• Understanding of mock data migration cycles.
• Understanding of current state data model vs. future state data model to ensure data fidelity following data migrations.
• Understanding of/experience with DEV/OPS and utilizing Agile Methodology to execute large scale software projects.
• Experience successfully identifying and deploying process/product improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to develop project cost and schedule estimates and respective status reports.
• Attention to detail, self-motivation and go-getter attitude is required.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve results by inspiring and connecting with the team and internal customers. Able to take a stand for what is right and demonstrate humility.
• Demonstrated ability to manage the cost, schedule, and technical project baselines through risk and opportunity management. Able to monitor and manage the project baselines for internal and external changes.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.

Working Conditions:

• Ball Aerospace is a drug-free workplace, which is imperative to the health and safety of all employees and is required as a condition of receiving contracts from federal agencies. Please remember that regardless of the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and other states, possession and use continues to be illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act. This includes the use of some CBD products. A post-offer, pre-employment drug test is a condition of employment.
• Work is performed in an office, laboratory, production floor, or cleanroom, outdoors or remote research environment.
• May occasionally work in production work centers where use of protective equipment and gear is required.
• May access other facilities in various weather conditions.
• Travel and local commute between Ball campuses and other possible non-Ball locations may be required.

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Relocation for this position is not available.

Compensation & Benefits:

• HIRING SALARY RANGE: $131,500 - $166,500 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.)
• This position includes a competitive benefits package. For details, copy and paste https://bit.ly/3pNSnxv into your browser or visit our careers site.

US CITIZENSHIP IS REQUIRED

Ball Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.