Technical Data & Configuration Manager

Job Description

Job Description

About Us
is a fast-growing Defense technology company headquartered in Clearwater, Florida. Founded by U.S. and U.K. veterans, we combine frontline Special Operations and Intelligence experience with advanced engineering to develop unmanned capabilities designed for real-world missions.
Our technology spans multiple domains and platforms, bringing together  open architectures, autonomy, resilient command-and-control, modular payloads, advanced manufacturing, and operator-led concepts of employment .
We are seeking an experienced  Technical Data & Configuration Manager to establish and own the technical information and configuration-management framework supporting our  MD2UE family of unmanned systems .
Why This Role Matters
This is  far more than a traditional document-control position .
You will become the custodian of Marcurius' controlled technical baseline, ensuring that engineering information is  authoritative, traceable, configuration-controlled, and ready for contractual delivery .
You will help answer critical questions across the product lifecycle:
What was designed? What was built? What was tested? What changed? What was delivered? And which technical baseline defines it?
This is a unique opportunity to build a foundational engineering capability within a rapidly growing Defense technology organization and directly influence how autonomous systems move from prototype to production.
What You'll Own

• Establish and own Marcurius' technical data and configuration-management framework, including the MD2UE master technical documentation architecture.
• Manage configuration baselines across multiple unmanned platform variants, covering hardware, software, firmware, payloads, interfaces, drawings, BOMs, and engineering records.
• Establish and administer engineering change control, including Engineering Change Requests/Proposals, deviations, waivers, revision control, approvals, Configuration Control Boards, configuration status accounting, and change authorization.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, configuration items, technical documentation, interfaces, verification evidence, and customer deliverables.
• Ensure documentation accurately reflects each platform's  as-designed, as-built, as-tested, and as-delivered configuration.
• Coordinate controlled releases of CAD models, engineering drawings, electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, BOMs, Interface Control Documents, software documentation, specifications, and test records.
• Identify and resolve inconsistencies between engineering disciplines and physical configurations.
• Own the technical document register and engineering information structure, including numbering, metadata, naming conventions, approvals, revisions, permissions, and archival requirements.
• Manage Interface Control Documents across mechanical, electrical, network, data, software/API, autonomy, payload, and command-and-control interfaces.
• Support Marcurius'  Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) by ensuring modular boundaries, open interfaces, APIs, schemas, messaging structures, and third-party integration points are clearly defined and controlled.
• Coordinate preparation, review, approval, packaging, and formal release of contractual technical-data submissions to U.S. Government and other customers.
• Maintain authoritative records of delivered technical data, including revision, configuration applicability, contractual requirement, and delivery date.
• Maintain clear separation between Government-deliverable data, Marcurius proprietary information, third-party IP, supplier-controlled information, and other restricted technical information.
• Support technical and configuration audits, design reviews, production-readiness reviews, test-readiness reviews, and customer reviews.
• Work closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Test & Evaluation, Operations, Program Management, suppliers, and customers to maintain a coherent technical baseline.
• Establish practical technical-data standards, templates, procedures, and training without creating unnecessary bureaucracy or slowing engineering development.
• Challenge incomplete, inconsistent, uncontrolled, or inadequately documented engineering work and drive corrective action with the appropriate technical owners.

What We're Looking For
Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in  Engineering, Systems Engineering, Configuration Management, Information Management, or a related technical discipline . Significant equivalent Defense or aerospace experience may also be considered.
• 7+ years of experience in configuration management, technical data management, systems engineering support, engineering information management, or a closely related discipline within a complex engineering environment.
• Demonstrated experience establishing or managing engineering configuration baselines for complex hardware/software systems.
• Strong knowledge of:
• • Engineering change management
  • Configuration identification
  • Configuration status accounting
  • Baseline management
  • Revision control
  • Change authorization
• Experience managing multidisciplinary engineering data, including:
• • CAD
  • Engineering drawings
  • Bills of Material (BOMs)
  • Schematics
  • Wiring diagrams
  • Specifications
  • Software records
  • Interface documentation
  • Verification evidence
• Strong enough systems-engineering knowledge to understand and challenge relationships between requirements, architectures, interfaces, hardware, software, and verification.
• Excellent technical writing and information-structuring skills.
• Ability to collaborate across Mechanical, Electrical, Software, Systems, Manufacturing, Test, and Program Management teams.
• Exceptional attention to detail and the confidence to challenge insufficient configuration or documentation discipline.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving prototype and product-development environment.
• Eligibility to work on U.S. Defense programs and handle controlled technical information as required.

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with one or more of the following is highly valued:

• U.S. Department of Defense programs and Government technical-data submissions, including  Technical Data Packages, CDRLs, Data Item Descriptions, Government acceptance processes, and technical-data rights .
• Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) principles.
• Open-system architectures, Interface Control Documents, software APIs, data schemas, messaging structures, network architectures, and hardware/software integration.
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Data Management (PDM), Configuration Management, requirements-management, or engineering document-management systems.
• Hardware and software configuration management within  autonomous systems, robotics, aerospace, maritime systems, Defense electronics, or complex mission systems .
• Intellectual-property markings, export controls, and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) requirements.
• Prototype-to-production transition, formal configuration audits, or establishing a configuration- management/technical -data function within a growing engineering organization.
• Relevant Configuration Management or Systems Engineering professional certification.