Chief Engineer, Global Data Management

• Serve as the senior technical partner to Global Data leadership, helping translate business strategy into technical priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes
• Define and drive technical strategy across global data platforms, data production systems, data quality, data governance, data delivery, and data-enabled products
• Act as a technical chief of staff for high-priority initiatives: clarify goals, structure work, identify dependencies, unblock teams, and ensure execution quality
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Data Production, Architecture, Security, Operations, Customer Success, and business leaders to align roadmap, architecture, and delivery
• Lead technical reviews for major initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, maintainable, and aligned with long-term platform direction
• Identify opportunities to apply AI, automation, machine learning, intelligent QA, data validation, workflow orchestration, and developer productivity tools across the Global Data organization
• Help modernize legacy systems, processes, and data pipelines while maintaining the reliability and trust required for aviation data
• Establish technical standards, architecture patterns, engineering practices, and decision frameworks that improve quality and speed
• Drive improvements in data quality, lineage, observability, reliability, validation, and operational excellence
• Create clear technical narratives, executive briefings, decision documents, tradeoff analyses, and implementation plans
• Partner with product and business leaders to evaluate build/buy/partner decisions, investment cases, and platform modernization opportunities
• Mentor senior engineers, architects, technical leads, and emerging leaders across the organization
• Build a culture of high agency, technical rigor, pragmatic innovation, and continuous improvement

The ideal candidate is AI-forward, deeply technical, operationally sharp, and comfortable working across ambiguity. They understand data-intensive systems, software engineering, architecture, automation, and product delivery. Aviation data experience is strongly preferred, but not required for an exceptional technical leader with strong systems thinking and a builder mindset., * 15+ years of software engineering, data engineering, platform engineering, architecture, or technical leadership experience

• Experience operating as a senior technical leader across complex, distributed, data-intensive systems
• Strong architecture judgment across data platforms, APIs, pipelines, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, integration patterns, and operational tooling
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives without relying solely on formal authority
• AI-forward mindset with practical experience or strong fluency in applying AI to engineering, data quality, automation, analytics, knowledge workflows, developer productivity, or intelligent products
• Strong ability to simplify complex technical issues into clear decisions, priorities, and executive-level narratives
• Experience improving engineering execution: planning, technical discovery, delivery quality, observability, incident learning, and operational excellence
• Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, data lineage, metadata, validation, and lifecycle management
• Ability to work across legacy systems and modern cloud-native architectures
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to engage deeply with engineers and clearly with executives
• Builder mindset: willing to prototype, inspect systems directly, ask sharp questions, and turn ambiguity into forward motion
• High judgment, low ego, and strong bias for practical outcomes

At Jeppesen ForeFlight, we know you want a rewarding career. To do that, you need challenging projects, a good work environment, and awesome coworkers. We believe in our employees, and we empower them to make a direct impact on our products and services messaging. We strive to provide our team and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits package includes but not limited to the following:

• Medical, dental, vision insurance with employer-paid health premiums
• Open PTO policy
• 401(k) with company matching and immediate vesting
• 12 weeks paid parent leave
• 2 days off to volunteer annually
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flight Training Stipend

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well market and business considerations: Summary Pay Range: $208,000-$255,000 USD.

Jeppesen ForeFlight is a leading provider of innovative aviation software solutions, serving the Commercial, Business, Military, and General Aviation sectors globally. Combining Jeppesen’s 90-year legacy of accurate aeronautical data with ForeFlight’s expertise in cutting-edge aviation technology, the company delivers an integrated suite of tools designed to enhance safety, improve operational efficiency, and sharpen decision-making.