Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Lead Systems Engineer (Onsite)

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. The Secure Subsystems Engineering team seeks a Senior Principal Systems Engineer – Lead Systems Engineer with a passion for innovation and the drive to see new technology and capability mature into fielded solutions. This role ensures the team is focused on developing talent for cryptography, driving capabilities, and architecting the crypto system. As a technical leader embedded within the Scrum Teams, you will provide technical guidance, influence the work backlog, and collaborate with Product Management to plan and deliver solutions for next‑generation security‑enabled mission computing, crypto, and cross‑domain technologies, maturing products from low TRL through program of record accreditation and factory production. What You Will Do Lead and mentor a Systems Engineering Scrum Team through design, development, integration, and test efforts. Communicate with multiple levels of management, team members, software, firmware, and hardware leads, and customers. Interface with multiple hardware and software Scrum Teams to work through dependencies and technical challenges. Work with the systems product owners and system leads to help drive priorities to keep budget and schedule at a strategic level. Meet with the project team regularly to identify blockers, remove blockers, and mentor individual contributors for technical guidance. Help conduct critical path analysis and work closely with program leadership to manage tasks and workflow. Monitor and assess project issues, escalates when necessary, and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction goals and objectives. Provide support for proposal and bids, and use estimation tools. Qualifications You Must Have Experience leading and being a systems architect for programs over $30‑50 million, with multiple projects covering the full lifecycle of certification with the NSA for cryptography. Experience operating as a Product Owner in an Agile environment. Experience with model‑based systems engineering (MBSE) concepts and tools. Experience capturing customer requirements, design concept development, and deriving and tracing system and subsystem level requirements. Experience with peer review processes, configuration, and change management. Familiarity with bidding and project/task estimation tools. Active and transferable SECRET clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance. Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years of prior relevant experience or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience. Qualifications We Prefer Exceptionally strong communication skills, experience presenting technical data to program management. What We Offer 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: 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. This position is eligible for relocation assistance. And more! Salary Range: $145,600 – $276,800 USD. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr Collins Aerospace