Principal Configuration & Data Management Expert

Responsibilities

• Act as a senior enterprise-level subject matter expert for Configuration Management and Data Management across Honeywell Aerospace.
• Collaboratively define, maintain, and evolve global CM/DM standards applicable across all programme types, ensuring they align with recognized industry best practices (e.g., EIA-649, ISO, INCOSE).
• Ensure enterprise standards align with regional regulatory needs and adapt to them while maintaining enterprise integrity.
• Embed configuration and data management principles across the full product and programme lifecycle.
• Work closely with local Configuration and Data Management specialists, country leadership, and Engineering and Programme leaders to ensure compliance with relevant regional, national, and customer-specific CM/DM requirements.
• Partner with the Digital Team and CM/DM function to define configuration and data management standards for MBSE, integrating them with enterprise CM/DM policies and regional compliance requirements.
• Define governance expectations for model baselining, version control, and release management, digital thread integrity, and artefact traceability, ensuring change control within model-based environments.
• Support consistent hybrid delivery across traditional and digitally enabled programmes.
• Conduct enterprise and regional assurance activities, audits, and independent reviews to verify adherence to CM/DM standards, contracts, and regulatory obligations.
• Identify and manage conflicts between global standards and regional requirements, recommending approved deviations or updates where necessary.
• Provide senior CM/DM governance and assurance support to complex programmes, ensuring alignment with both global standards and regional requirements.
• Review and challenge configuration and data management plans to ensure alignment with both global standards and regional requirements.
• Influence programme teams to maintain disciplined execution through effective configuration and data control.
• Support programme reporting on compliance, assurance, and risk status.
• Identify trends, systemic issues, or regional challenges affecting CM/DM compliance and feed insights back into enterprise standards and governance frameworks to continuously improve clarity, applicability, and effectiveness.
• Promote consistent, repeatable, and scalable CM/DM practices across Honeywell Aerospace.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with Central Configuration & Data Management leadership, local CM/DM specialists, country and regional leaders, Engineering, Programme, Quality, Supply Chain, and Digital teams.
• Act as a trusted advisor and coach, helping teams understand and correctly apply CM/DM standards.
• Influence behavioural change and compliance through credibility, evidence, and technical leadership rather than positional authority.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for configuration, data, digital, and regional compliance issues.
• Lead by example in internal audits, customer reviews, and regulatory or certification assessments, including region-specific compliance reviews.

Qualifications

• BSc, Engineering, Project Management, Business degree or at least 5+ years of on-the-job Technical Project Management experience.
• Direct Project Management experience of $50K to +$2M projects across technical teams, preferably in Aerospace.
• Demonstrable ability to lead and influence others.
• Proven experience in project management including budget ownership/management, resource allocation, scheduling, forecasting, and planning.
• Capacity to deliver against multiple objectives in complex matrix management environment.
• Strong customer relation skills with a total commitment to customer satisfaction.
• Must be IT literate and confident in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
• Strong understanding of HCM (Hardware configuration Management), SCM (Software Configuration Management), and DM (Data Management) processes and tools would be advantageous.
• Experience in the Defence industry would be desirable.
• US Persons Requirement: Due to U.S. export control laws, candidates must be U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or have protected status under asylum or refugee.