Senior Principal Software Technical Lead (Onsite)
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Job description
- Provide technical leadership for a large, embedded software team, ensuring consistent execution, quality, and delivery across multiple software products.
- Own the technical, cost, and schedule performance of multiple software products across the full software development lifecycle.
- Establish and enforce software engineering processes, development standards, and best practices in alignment with program, customer, and enterprise requirements.
- Lead software planning, staffing, tasking, and execution, including delegation to team and technical leads.
- Partner with Program Management, Systems Engineering, Hardware Engineering, and Test to define an executable and prioritized software baseline and backlog.
- Communicate software status, risks, issues, and mitigation plans to program leadership, customers, and other stakeholders.
- Support software proposal development, including scope definition, basis of estimate (BOE), staffing profiles, schedules, and cost estimates.
- Support customer and internal reviews, presenting software architecture, plans, and execution status.
- Oversee integration of software with systems, hardware, and external interfaces, including coordination with suppliers and partners as applicable.
- Travel occasionally to support customer meetings and program reviews.
Requirements
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading large, multi-team software organizations with accountability for cost, schedule, and technical performance.
- professional experience in embedded software development with real-time operating systems (RTOS).
- Strong working knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM) principles, metrics, and reporting within a DoD program environment.
- Experience across all phases of the software development lifecycle, including architecture, design, implementation, integration, verification, and sustainment.
- Experience developing software within a DoD or similarly regulated environment.
- Active and transferable U.S. government issued secret security clearance is required prior to start date., * Experience interfacing directly with customers and leading technical solutions to complex system and software requirements.
- Experience leading or supporting competitive software proposal efforts, including BOEs and cost/schedule trade studies.
- Experience authoring, managing, and tracing software requirements and UML design artifacts within a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tool.
- Experience developing and integrating multi-threaded embedded software using object-oriented languages within a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS).
- Experience supporting aerospace, defense, or nuclear command-and-control systems governed by standards such as DO-178C, MIL-STD-498, or equivalent.
- Experience managing software suppliers, subcontractors, or distributed development teams.
- Exposure to Agile frameworks such as scrum and DevSecOps.
Benefits & conditions
Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions - whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you'll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.
What We Offer:
Some of our competitive benefits package includes:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
- Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
- Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
- Adoption Assistance
- Autism Benefit
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
- Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
- Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
- Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
- Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
- Eligible for relocation assistance
- And more!, The salary range for this role is 132,400 USD - 251,600 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.
Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.
Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company's performance.
This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.
RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.
RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.
