Digital Factory Software Architect
RTX Corporation10 days ago
McKinney, TX, USA or Andover, MA, USASenior
Base Salary
$108k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and integrate digital manufacturing applications including operator interfaces, dashboards, backend workflows, and automated logic.
- Build responsive web tools using Ignition Perspective and thin-client frameworks such as React, Vue, or Angular.
- Develop scalable backend services and APIs using Python, SQL, REST APIs, and JSON.
- Connect factory equipment, sensors, PLCs, and gateways through OPC UA, MQTT, EIP, and Modbus/TCP.
- Build and optimize data models, historian structures, and analytics pipelines for factory metrics, digital thread continuity, and real-time insights.
- Define architectural patterns, reusable components, integration strategies, and system standards for enterprise scaling.
- Support CI/CD pipelines, deployment validation, troubleshooting, sustainment, and multi-site rollouts using tools such as Azure DevOps.
- Lead technical investigations, implement corrective actions, and ensure long-term reliability of mission-critical applications.
- Partner with manufacturing engineering, operations, OT, IT, and analytics stakeholders and mentor engineers.
- Travel approximately 10% of the time.
Requirements
- Typically requires a STEM degree and 8 years of prior relevant experience.
- Strong experience building applications in Ignition, including Perspective, scripting, and gateway configuration, or a similar toolset.
- Experience with Python, SQL, REST APIs, JSON, and industrial communication protocols.
- Active and existing DoD Secret security clearance is required after day one.
- U.S. citizenship is required because only U.S. citizens are eligible for the required security clearance.
- Preferred experience developing and integrating software across frontend, backend, and data layers.
- Preferred experience with React, Vue, or Angular for thin-client enterprise tools.
- Preferred backend experience with Node.js, Python services, or distributed architecture patterns.
- Preferred knowledge of PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL, historian, or time-series data stores.
- Preferred familiarity with Azure or other cloud platforms and scalable deployment frameworks.
- Preferred experience defining architectural standards, reusable patterns, and system design decisions.
- Ignition Gold Certification or willingness to obtain it is preferred.
Benefits
- Onsite position with locations available in Tucson, Arizona; Forest, Mississippi; Andover, Massachusetts; or McKinney, Texas.
- The position is not eligible for relocation and requires approximately 10% travel.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.
- Eligible employees may receive access to the Employee Scholar Program and company-supported Ignition Gold Certification opportunities.
- Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term or long-term incentive compensation programs, which are not guaranteed.
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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.