Austere Systems Ltd Benefits Overview

Leads enterprise data-quality governance for the War Data Platform, establishing standards, automated controls, monitoring, compliance reviews, and audit readiness. Directs a cross-functional quality team, investigates root causes, manages remediation, oversees contractor and vendor performance, and coordinates with engineering, cybersecurity, acquisition, senior leadership, and oversight organizations. The role ensures mission-critical datasets are accurate, reliable, available, traceable, and suitable for analytics and AI applications.

Leads the War Data Platform Mission Execution Division, overseeing acquisition strategy, multi-year budgeting, financial execution, contracting, portfolio delivery, and audit readiness. Directs program managers, contracting representatives, technical leads, and acquisition specialists while managing schedules, dependencies, risks, performance metrics, vendor accountability, and workforce development. Translates technical and mission requirements into acquisition packages, drives procurement efficiency, and briefs senior defense, military, congressional, and industry stakeholders on program execution and strategic outcomes.

Leads enterprise data engineering for the War Data Platform, defining product strategy, capability backlogs, and multi-year roadmaps. Oversees ingestion, pipelines, APIs, data movement, cataloging, lineage, cloud migration, security compliance, and cross-domain transfers. Evaluates architecture, monitors reliability and data quality, establishes SLOs and KPIs, reviews contractor proposals, and partners with analytics, AI, cybersecurity, and mission teams. Presents recommendations to senior defense leadership and develops enterprise engineering standards.