Position Summary
The Director, Integration & Technology PMO will lead Karman’s enterprise technology program management office, with responsibility for driving disciplined execution across M&A integration, enterprise technology roadmaps, portfolio governance, business systems initiatives, entity restructuring coordination, and value realization.
This role will serve as a key execution partner to the Chief Information & Artificial Intelligence Officer and the broader executive leadership team, ensuring technology-enabled initiatives are prioritized, governed, resourced, sequenced, and delivered in alignment with enterprise strategy, compliance obligations, operational needs, and measurable business value.
The Director will establish and mature repeatable playbooks, governance forums, intake processes, executive reporting, and delivery standards across the technology portfolio. This includes major enterprise programs such as post-merger integration, ERP/business systems transformation, cybersecurity and compliance initiatives, infrastructure modernization, AI enablement, data integration, and cross-functional operating model improvements.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Integration & M&A Execution
- Develop and maintain repeatable M&A technology integration playbooks covering Day 1 readiness, Day 30/60/90 planning, TSA exit, systems integration, identity and access, infrastructure, cybersecurity, business applications, data migration, vendor rationalization, and site onboarding.
- Partner with Corporate Development, Finance, Legal, HR, Operations, Cybersecurity, Business Systems, and site leadership to coordinate acquisition integration planning and execution.
- Support integration due diligence by identifying technology risks, application dependencies, infrastructure gaps, compliance considerations, cost impacts, and integration timelines.
- Coordinate cross-functional post-merger integration workstreams, ensuring clear ownership, decision rights, milestones, risks, dependencies, and executive visibility.
- Lead technology coordination for entity restructuring activities, including systems alignment, legal entity changes, ERP impacts, reporting structures, access controls, data governance, vendor contracts, and operational readiness.
- Ensure integration activities support the broader “one company” operating model, including common platforms, standard processes, data consistency, and scalable enterprise governance.
Portfolio Governance & Intake
- Establish and lead a structured technology portfolio governance process for new demand intake, business case development, prioritization, approval, sequencing, and execution oversight.
- Partner with business leaders to evaluate project requests based on strategic alignment, compliance risk, operational impact, financial value, capacity constraints, cybersecurity exposure, and enterprise dependencies.
- Develop and maintain a transparent enterprise technology portfolio across IT, Business Systems, Cybersecurity, AI, Data, Infrastructure, and integration initiatives.
- Facilitate portfolio review forums with executive stakeholders to support decision-making, trade-off discussions, prioritization, and resource allocation.
- Build and maintain a standardized intake model that improves visibility, reduces unmanaged work, and ensures high-priority initiatives receive appropriate sponsorship and resourcing.
Prioritization, Roadmaps & Execution Planning
- Own the integrated enterprise technology roadmap, ensuring alignment across strategic priorities, business needs, compliance requirements, M&A activity, and operational capacity.
- Translate executive priorities into actionable programs, delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
- Partner with technology and business leaders to sequence initiatives realistically based on capacity, risk, business readiness, funding, and change impact.
- Identify conflicts, overlaps, resource gaps, and dependency risks across the portfolio and escalate with clear options and recommendations.
- Support annual and quarterly planning cycles by providing roadmap inputs, capacity analysis, delivery forecasts, and investment prioritization recommendations.
PMO Standards, Delivery Discipline & Program Management
- Establish and continuously improve PMO standards, including project charters, business cases, governance gates, RAID management, status reporting, budget tracking, change control, and benefits realization.
- Lead or oversee major enterprise programs requiring cross-functional coordination, executive sponsorship, and disciplined execution.
- Ensure program teams maintain clear scope, timeline, budget, ownership, risks, dependencies, and decision logs.
- Drive consistent project delivery practices while remaining pragmatic and appropriately scaled to business need.
- Manage a team of project managers, analysts, vendor PMs, and/or dotted-line workstream leads as the organization scales.
- Partner with vendors, consultants, and system integrators to ensure external delivery commitments are aligned to Karman priorities, timelines, and expected outcomes.
Executive Reporting & Value Realization
- Develop executive-level reporting for the CIAIO, SLT, and Board-level updates, including portfolio health, major initiative status, risks, decisions needed, value realization, and forward-looking priorities.
- Define and track measurable business outcomes for major programs, including cost savings, productivity improvements, risk reduction, compliance progress, service improvement, integration benefits, and operational efficiencies.
- Build a benefits realization framework that connects project delivery to business value, not just completion of milestones.
- Partner with Finance and functional leaders to validate project economics, investment cases, savings assumptions, and realized benefits.
- Provide concise, decision-ready reporting that enables leadership to understand progress, risks, trade-offs, and required actions.
Risk, Compliance & Controls Alignment
- Ensure major technology programs appropriately account for cybersecurity, SOX ITGC, CMMC, NIST 800-171, DFARS, CUI handling, data privacy, audit evidence, and change control requirements.
- Partner with Cybersecurity, Compliance, Internal Audit, Legal, and Finance to embed control considerations into project planning and execution.
- Ensure integration and restructuring activities do not introduce unmanaged risk to regulated systems, financial reporting processes, controlled data environments, or critical business operations.
- Support governance around technology changes during sensitive periods such as audits, assessments, major cutovers, integrations, or compliance readiness windows.
Stakeholder Leadership & Change Enablement
- Serve as a trusted partner to executive leadership, site leaders, functional leaders, and technology teams.
- Facilitate alignment across competing priorities, helping teams make clear decisions and move work forward.
- Communicate complex technology, integration, and portfolio topics in a clear, business-oriented manner.
- Support organizational change management by helping leaders understand impacts, readiness needs, adoption risks, communication requirements, and training dependencies.
- Promote a culture of accountability, transparency, urgency, and disciplined execution.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, Engineering, Finance, Operations, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in technology program management, enterprise PMO leadership, business transformation, M&A integration, IT portfolio management, or related disciplines.
- 5+ years of experience leading complex cross-functional programs with executive-level visibility.
- Demonstrated experience building or maturing PMO, portfolio governance, intake, prioritization, roadmap, and executive reporting processes.
- Experience supporting M&A integration, post-merger integration, business systems integration, entity restructuring, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
- Strong understanding of enterprise technology environments, including ERP, business applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, identity/access management, data, and vendor ecosystems.
- Proven ability to manage complex dependencies across business functions, technology teams, vendors, and executive stakeholders.
- Strong financial and business acumen, including business case development, budget tracking, investment prioritization, and value realization.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, executive reporting, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment with ambiguity, competing priorities, and high executive visibility.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in aerospace, defense, manufacturing, engineering, or other regulated environments.
- Familiarity with CMMC, NIST 800-171, DFARS, CUI, SOX ITGC, export-controlled environments, or other compliance-driven operating models.
- Experience with ERP or business systems transformation, preferably involving Epicor, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar enterprise platforms.
- Experience with post-acquisition integration of IT infrastructure, business applications, cybersecurity controls, data, reporting, and operating processes.
- PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, Lean Six Sigma, Prosci, or related certification.
- MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- Experience with portfolio management tools, project management platforms, dashboarding, and executive reporting tools.
Leadership Competencies
- Enterprise mindset with the ability to balance local site needs against broader company priorities.
- Strong execution orientation with the ability to move from strategy to action quickly.
- Ability to influence without authority across senior leaders, functional teams, and technical teams.
- High judgment in prioritizing work based on business value, risk, capacity, and timing.
- Strong bias for transparency, accountability, and measurable outcomes.
- Comfortable acting as both a strategic leader and hands-on problem solver.
- Ability to bring structure to ambiguity without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Strong partnership orientation with Finance, Operations, HR, Legal, Engineering, Quality, Cybersecurity, and Business Systems.
Success Measures
Success in this role will be measured by the ability to:
- Establish a clear and trusted enterprise technology intake and portfolio governance process.
- Build and operationalize repeatable M&A integration and entity restructuring playbooks.
- Improve visibility into technology priorities, roadmaps, dependencies, risks, and resource capacity.
- Provide executive-ready reporting that enables timely decisions and clear accountability.
- Improve delivery discipline across major enterprise initiatives.
- Demonstrate measurable value realization from technology investments.
- Reduce unmanaged work, project overlap, and execution ambiguity.
- Support successful integration of acquired entities into Karman’s enterprise technology and operating model.
- Strengthen alignment between technology execution, compliance requirements, and business outcomes.
Reporting Relationship
This role reports to the Chief Information & Artificial Intelligence Officer and will work closely with executive leadership, functional leaders, site leadership, technology teams, business systems teams, cybersecurity, finance, legal, HR, operations, engineering, quality, and external partners.
Position Type
Full-time, exempt leadership role. Travel may be required to support site integrations, acquisition activity, executive meetings, and major program delivery.
ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here .
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