Data Platform Lead, Product Lifecycle Operations

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

3d

About The Position

The Data Platform Lead will architect, build, and deploy operational tooling across a diverse product portfolio, serving as a bridge between the CEO Office and divisional product teams. The role develops analytics solutions tailored to individual product teams while consolidating disparate datasets for executive reporting. It translates operational questions into metrics, dashboards, and analyses that support executive decision-making, diagnose blind spots, identify opportunities, and improve data integrity. Success requires business and technical acumen, thoughtful system design in high-visibility cross-functional environments, and a preference for scrappy, adoptable solutions with a roadmap for improvement over fully baked architecture.

The Product Lifecycle Operations team connects business priorities with product delivery across Finance, Growth, Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Deployments, and Sustainment. It brings production readiness into upstream business decisions and works with technical and non-technical stakeholders to define measurable delivery-readiness outcomes throughout the product lifecycle. The team values action, adaptability, and thoughtful iteration in the face of ambiguity and complex problems.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in data analytics, software engineering, management information systems, or a similar field.
• Direct coding experience using Python, SQL, React, TypeScript, or similar.
• Deep understanding of data-stack tools such as Palantir Foundry or Databricks.
• Direct experience owning, leading, and driving adoption of user-facing applications and associated processes.
• A proven track record of using technical data to solve business problems.
• Demonstrated technical autonomy from roadmap definition through solution rollout and sustainment.
• Ability to execute operationally while also thinking strategically.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience connecting data across business, engineering, and manufacturing environments, including CRM, ERP, PLM, and MES.
• Experience building end-to-end data pipelines, ontologies, and applications in Palantir Foundry or Databricks.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap from conception through delivery and sustainment.
• Architect and drive a roadmap connecting core enterprise systems, such as ERP, PLM, and MES, with tactical collaboration tools, such as Jira and Airtable, to create a cohesive single source of truth.
• Incorporate end-user feedback and evolving requirements from ideation through adoption.
• Partner with other team leads on data opportunities and systematic improvements that future-proof and scale processes.
• Build relationships with Corporate Planning & Operations, Revenue Operations, Corporate Technology, and Data Engineering & Platform teams to understand tools, taxonomies, and ontologies.
• Collaborate across functions to develop applications that create coherence across the technology stack.
• Design, build, validate, and roll out tailored dashboards and analytical tools for divisional product teams and senior leadership.
• Use each divisional product team’s existing business rhythms and data sources to address pain points while sustaining effective practices.
• Transform technical and operational data into actionable insights for product teams and executive leadership.
• Integrate disparate data streams across Growth, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and other areas to improve product maturity, operational velocity, and revenue realization.
• Deliver initial solutions quickly, collect stakeholder feedback across multiple cycles, and formalize and optimize solutions over time.
• Facilitate documentation and knowledge transfer so architecture decisions, dependencies, and assumptions remain accessible and durable.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of total compensation.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, described as comprehensive and competitive and available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed