Software Foundations Lead (Onsite)
RTX Corporation1 day ago
Aurora, CO, USA or Richardson, TX, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$157k - $299k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and refine software development processes aligned with organizational goals.
- Establish engineering standards, best practices, and governance for code quality, testing, and deployment.
- Lead process-improvement initiatives and drive adoption of software best practices across projects.
- Define software metrics, dashboards, measurement frameworks, and flow-based measures.
- Develop and maintain software project cost-estimation standards, models, sizing practices, risk analysis, and review processes.
- Coordinate automated reporting and analyze metric trends to identify bottlenecks and improvement opportunities.
- Present data-driven insights to executive leadership and establish feedback loops between measurement and improvement.
- Collaborate with chief engineers, business leaders, engineering execution, RLPM, forward deployed engineers, and other functions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics and at least 12 years of prior experience.
- Experience across the software development lifecycle, including proposal, requirements, design, implementation, testing, and delivery.
- Experience with Agile approaches and DevOps.
- Experience with software project management or program management, such as serving as a Chief Engineer.
- Experience with software project cost and schedule in government-contracting environments.
- Active and current Secret security clearance required on day one.
- U.S. citizenship required because only U.S. citizens are eligible for the required security clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include expertise in software metrics, process standards, value-stream mapping, statistical analysis, data visualization, software estimation and cost models, software quality and auditing, automated testing frameworks, RTX business-process systems, mentoring engineers, and software development using GenAI tools.
Benefits
- Onsite work is required at RTX facilities; listed locations include Tewksbury, Massachusetts, McKinney and Richardson, Texas, and Aurora, Colorado.
- Eligible benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance, the Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.
- Eligible employees may receive annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation, subject to program and performance conditions.
- The application window is expected to close approximately 40 days after posting, subject to change.
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About RTX Corporation
RTX Corporation builds aerospace and defense systems through its Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon businesses, serving commercial aviation, the U.S. government, and allied militaries. Its products range from aircraft engines and avionics to radars, missiles, and command-and-control software, sold via long-term OEM programs and defense contracts. Formed in 2020 by the Raytheon–United Technologies merger, RTX is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia and trades on the NYSE as RTX.