Program Manager Digital Transformation Jobs in California

The Digital Transformation Manager has responsibility for digital modernization initiatives across Engineering. This position requires practical experience with engineering platforms and extensive experience with technical integrations, automation, and compliance in regulated environments. Effective communication with internal and external stakeholders is essential to resolve complex technical issues in accordance with program requirements. The role ensures the safe, predictable execution of transformation projects and platform upgrades, aligning with modernization goals and shiplevel digital twin objectives. The position is accountable for platform reliability, adoption, and measurable value delivery, including reduced manual effort, and improved digital thread integrity. A significant aspect of this role involves navigating and resolving conflict among stakeholders with competing priorities, requiring strong judgment, patience, and welldeveloped conflictresolution skills to build alignment.

• Own Engineerings digitalplatform strategy and execution for AVEVA Marine, E3D, Unified Engineering, and legacy Tribon, serving as platform steward for stability, upgrades, security alignment, vendor coordination, and environment health

• Direct the shift from legacy customizations to OEMaligned workflows, ensuring consistent standards and reduced fragility across engineering disciplines

• Govern Engineerings digital data standards, including naming conventions, EBOM/PBOM structures, configuration controls, and product information integrity

• Maintain a multiyear digitaltransformation roadmap with quarterly objectives, defining crossdiscipline activities, test plans, rollback strategies, incident response procedures, and changemanagement communications

• Plan and coordinate the transition of Engineering tools (Jira, Confluence, Tableau) toward Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform, ensuring continuity and adoption

• Lead integrations and data exchanges between AVEVA/E3D/UE and shipyard systems such as MACPAC MRP, LMS, and Autotime

• Establish and operate within governance structures and compliance frameworks for automation, AI, data workflows, and secure platform operation under FedRAMP GCCHigh, ITAR/EAR, and CMMC requirements

• Provide direct supervision and performance management for the Digital Transformation team, including hiring, coaching, career development, and setting clear, measurable expectations

• Build a community of engineering software champions through mentoring and enablement programs that strengthen digital fluency across Engineering

• Collaborate with Talent Development and Technical Training to identify, develop, implement, and manage strategic training programs for digital tools and practices

• Make decisions on platform configuration standards, decustomization priorities, backlog sequencing, automation approvals, integration architectures, and vendor selection within approved budgets
• Answer for department performance, including cost, schedule, and transformation outcomes aligned with the roadmap.

• Collaborate with Engineering, IT, Production, Supply Chain, QA, executive sponsors, OEMs, and software vendors to ensure alignment, timely support, and effective integration of digital platforms

• Build strong relationships with customers and their representatives to resolve complex and often unforeseen issues in the best interests of programs; manage resolution oflogistics, personnel, and prioritization conflicts

• Communicate the rationale behind changes, negotiate tradeoffs with stakeholders, and navigate conflict to build alignment

• Apply effective conflictresolution strategies calibrated to urgency, relationship sensitivity, and operational impact

• Address complex and ambiguous technical problems (e.g., platform incidents, integrations, dataintegrity gaps, and decustomization tradeoffs) using structured analysis and collaboration

• Solve issues inherent in a legacyplusmodern ecosystem while driving toward standardization and reliability

• Manage overhead and capital budgets for digital platforms, licensing, vendor contracts, and professional services, applying course corrections to prevent overruns

• Reduce risk to people, processes, and systems through approved policies, technical safeguards, governance, and proactive planning

• Support Planning and Program Controls to integrate transformation schedules with networked detail schedules and the Integrated Master Schedule, mitigating latechange impacts

• Track and report Digital Transformation outcomes to Engineering leadership, including value delivered, cycletime reductions, defect rates, and adoption metrics

• Ensure transformation activities are conducted safely and in alignment with production, testing, and engineering workflows

• Build strong relationships with customers to resolve unforeseen issues, logistics challenges, personnel conflicts, and priority disputes

• Identify practical AI use cases and coordinate proofsofconcept for secure, compliant automation within Engineering
• Other responsibilities and duties as assigned

• Bachelors degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or demonstrated equivalence
• 7+ years of experience in engineering or technical environments, including 3+ years leading teams or complex cross-functional initiatives
• Familiarity with platforms like AVEVA Marine, E3D, or Unified Engineering is preferred; interest in learning crosssystem integrations (MACPAC, LMS, Autotime) is welcome.
• Training or experience with platform stewardship, secure operations, and compliance frameworks (FedRAMP GCCHigh, ITAR/EAR, CMMC/NIST) is a plus, with willingness to develop these skills.
• Understanding of engineering workflows (structure, piping, electrical, HVAC, outfitting) and data governance is preferred, along with enthusiasm for learning multisystem integration and incident/rootcause practices.
• Ability to apply technical knowledge to standardize configurations, retire customizations, design robust integrations, implement automation and AI governance, and translate Engineering needs into scalable solutions
• Strong changeleadership capabilities, including leading teams and stakeholders through resistance, skepticism, or competing priorities
• Exceptional communication, conflict resolution, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts, build trust, negotiate tradeoffs, and foster alignment across diverse stakeholder groups
• High emotional intelligence, patience, and a collaborative leadership style, including the ability to build communication effectiveness within technical teams

• Experience with AI-supported workflows, automation technologies, agentic systems, or proofsofconcept for emerging digital tools

• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets, vendor contracts, licensing agreements, and enterprise platform procurement within compliance constraints

The essential functions of this role are performed in an office setting. The role requires prolonged periods of working in a stationary position, operating a computer, computer programs, and standard office equipment necessary to perform the essential duties. The role requires perceiving information and communicating effectively with others in person, online, and on the phone.