Niki Allen

Chief IT & Operations Officer, VP Infrastructure & Ops for IT & Data Analytics, Boeing

Niki is currently Chief IT & Operations Officer and Vice President of infrastructure & operations for Boeing IT & data analytics. In her role, Niki is responsible for the global technology strategy, roadmap, infrastructure and operations to generate more than sixty billion dollars of revenue annually. Niki is also responsible for delivering workplace solutions to nearly two hundred thousand employees and partners across seventy countries worldwide.

Prior to this role, Niki spent a year in retail serving as the divisional CIO and SVP of Technology at Kohls Corporation. During her tenure she led the architectural design, application development, deployment, integration and reliability engineering for Enterprise marketing and merchandising technologies. Niki also owned the Enterprise data & analytics capability include strategy, platform, and visualization capabilities.

Before her pivot to retail, Niki spent nearly 20 years leading information technology and product management at The Boeing Company. Notably, she led the digital technology transformation to modernize the end-to-end digital experience and enable the digital thread across the full product lifecycle. In addition, Niki created the first product centric environments within IT, delivering agile software development at scale for the Enterprise. Since beginning her Boeing career in 2001, Niki has she worked as a technical program leader across several marquee programs and customer segments to include the United States Department of Defense, Homeland Security, United States Intelligence agencies, and Foreign Military Defense ministries.

As a servant leader, Niki is the Executive Advisory Board Member at SIU Carbondale where she recently helped launch an advanced analytics degree specialization as part of the SIUC College of Business. She most recently co-founding the DC chapter of Chief, an organization aimed at developing strong female talent. She is also a strong promoter of diversity and inclusion and participates in several external technical organizations such as TMCF, NSBE and the Women’s Leadership forum. Her focus on STEM and community outreach consists of development and recruitment sponsorship for Black Engineer of the Year, National Society of Black Engineers, Grace Hopper and Women of Color in Technology. In 2021 efforts in STEM were nationally recognized by Blacks in Technology, Inc as she was named Top 100 in Technology. Niki is also an active member of the prestigious Executive Leadership Council where she also serves as a member of the IT Advisory Committee. She holds an Executive MBA from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Southern Illinois University.