Development Item Lead

RTX•Marlborough, MA

16h•Onsite

About The Position

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. Raytheon brings over 100 years of experience and engineering expertise to meet today’s mission needs and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threats, delivering solutions that help defend freedoms and deter aggression. The company is seeking a dynamic and motivated leader for the role of Development Item Lead in a Scrum agile environment. This position offers the opportunity to lead and inspire a small development team, drive innovation, and make a tangible impact on programs by developing and delivering capability to customers. The ideal candidate is a highly collaborative and driven Development Lead to work as part of a larger multi-discipline team of systems, hardware, software, and test engineers and program subject matter experts (SMEs). In this role, you’ll play a pivotal part in ensuring and managing an efficient full life cycle software development of hardware/software solutions. The Department’s mission is to provide world-class Radar Software to be used in military systems deployed at sea and on land. Our software teams employ an Agile Scrum process to rapidly design, code, integrate and test capabilities on a continuous basis into a mature solution for our customers. This position is full-time on-site in Marlborough Massachusetts.

Requirements

Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations.
Experience using C and C++ or Java.
Experience in software architecture and requirements development for embedded real time applications.
Experience with automation and scripting languages such as Bash, Perl, Python.
Experience provide guidance in debugging, testing, and maintaining complex development ecosystems.
Experience with tools like ClearCase, Git, GitLab, and similar platforms.
The ability to obtain and maintain a U. S. government issued Secret security clearance prior to the start date.
U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading scrum teams.
Practical working knowledge of CI/CD practices, DevSecOps pipelines, containerized development environments (such as Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes), and related organizational methodologies.
A detail-oriented leader who excels in team settings, fosters collaboration, and builds strong relationships across all levels of the organization.
A quick thinker who remains calm under pressure and delivers results in high-stakes scenarios.
Experience with embedded real-time software integration and testing.
Experience with static analysis tools such as Coverity.
Familiar with tools like Jira, Artifactory, BitBucket, and Matlab.
Understanding the application of AI within the development workflow.

Responsibilities

Serve as a subject-matter expert in communicating technical strategies to stakeholders, supporting alignment of organizational objectives with engineering initiatives.
Develop a Software Development Plan (SDP), Manage engineering programs and processes with minimal oversight, overseeing workflows, ensuring stability, and driving innovation across multiple platforms.
Perform EVMS as required to ensure program performance.
Perform Software Architecture and Requirements development and lead subsystem software development using a CI/CD pipeline and development environment, working with leadership to support alignment with organizational goals and priorities.
With support from leadership, manage priorities effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Coach, review and delegate work across the development team, fostering a collaborative and productive environment that drives excellence and and continuous improvement.
Resolve technical challenges with innovative solutions, ensuring system stability and optimal performance.
Work closely with colleagues across System, Hardware and Test Engineering, Digital Technology (DT), Safety, and Cyber to achieve shared goals.
Tackle stability issues, while integrating and testing embedded real-time embedded and application software on Linux and Windows platforms.
Work with tools like ClearCase, Perl, Jenkins, Smartbear Collaborator, Grafana, Coverity, Matlab and more, while supporting migration to cutting-edge container-based development environment that includes Git, GitLab.
Work with Platform Engineer organization to help stand up development environment.