Director, Enterprise Applications

ABOUT FIREFLY AEROSPACE

As an end-to-end responsive space company, Firefly Aerospace is on a mission to enable our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. Our small- to medium-lift launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles allow us to service the entire lifecycle of government and commercial missions from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. We utilize carbon composite structures, patented propulsion technologies, and common components across our vehicles to iterate quickly, improve reliability, and deliver payloads at a lower cost.

Summary of Role

The Director, Enterprise Applications is a senior technology leader responsible for defining and executing the vision for the company's entire enterprise application ecosystem. This role provides strategic leadership over all enterprise systems including ERP, Product Lifecycle Management (Siemens Teamcenter/NX), and the complete portfolio of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) applications that enable critical business functions across finance, operations, engineering, supply chain, and corporate functions. The Director establishes the long-term enterprise technology roadmap, drives digital transformation initiatives that deliver measurable business outcomes, and ensures enterprise applications serve as a competitive differentiator in the aerospace industry. The Director collaborates to shape business strategy, champions innovation and emerging technologies, establishes enterprise governance and risk management frameworks, and builds world-class technical organizations capable of supporting rapid growth. This role requires strategic vision, proven leadership capabilities, deep technical expertise, and the ability to operate effectively in a high-growth aerospace startup environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Executive Strategy & Vision

• Define and drive the enterprise application vision and strategy in alignment with corporate goals, market dynamics, and emerging technology trends, serving as a key member of the IT leadership team.

• Lead digital transformation initiatives that fundamentally reimagine business processes, create competitive advantages, and enable the company's growth trajectory from startup to scale.

• Develop business cases and ROI models for major technology investments, presenting recommendations to C-suite and securing approval for strategic initiatives.

• Establish enterprise application governance structures, investment prioritization frameworks, and technology standards that guide decision-making across the organization.

Enterprise Portfolio Leadership

• Own the complete lifecycle of enterprise applications from strategy through evaluation, implementation, optimization, and retirement across the entire technology portfolio.

• Drive enterprise architecture evolution, ensuring scalability, integration, and alignment with business needs while managing technical debt and modernization efforts.

• Ensure enterprise applications deliver measurable business value through sophisticated metrics, dashboards, and regular business reviews with executive stakeholders.

Business Partnership & Transformation

• Lead enterprise-wide business process transformation initiatives that span multiple departments, driving standardization, automation, and operational excellence.

• Establish cross-functional governance councils and steering committees to align application strategy with business priorities and manage organizational change.

• Build strong relationships with key suppliers and industry partners to identify technology collaboration opportunities and industry best practices.

Financial & Resource Management

• Manage enterprise applications operating budgets, forecasts, capital expenditures, and investment portfolios.

• Drive cost optimization initiatives while maintaining service quality, identifying opportunities to reduce total cost of ownership and maximize ROI on technology investments.

• Lead contract negotiations with major vendors and service providers, establishing strategic partnerships that deliver value and mitigate risk.

Security, Compliance & Enterprise Risk

• Establish and oversee comprehensive security, compliance, and risk management frameworks for all enterprise applications, ensuring alignment with corporate policies and regulatory requirements.

• Lead compliance efforts for industry-specific regulations (SOX, ITAR, EAR, CMMC) and quality standards (AS9100), serving as the application authority for the organization.

• Oversee enterprise risk assessments, business continuity planning, and disaster recovery capabilities, ensuring resilience of mission-critical systems.

• Partner with legal, finance, and security teams to address audit findings, implement controls, and maintain certification requirements.

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status