Digital Program Architect, Hybrid Role (AZ, TX, or CO)

RTX•Aurora, CO

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Digital Program Architect, you will provide technical leadership to the Strategic Business Unit (SBU) capture teams across multiple capture efforts collaborating with peers, stakeholders, and leaders to architect innovative and secure Digital Technology (DT) solutions for program captures and IRAD efforts. The Program Architect partners with engineering and capture teams as well as DT experts to assess and respond to customer technology needs leveraging emerging industry and internal DT capabilities that influence our product lines and create market opportunities. Responsibilities also include architectural and design efforts to develop new capabilities in support of business growth objectives. Successful Program Architects possess proven systems architecture and infrastructure design skills, apply industry advanced concepts such as Cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), DevSecOps, High Performance Computing (HPC), and advanced communications technologies while leveraging excellent interpersonal, and communications skills to develop innovative, robust, and affordable Digital technology solutions.

Requirements

Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years' experience
Experience in system architecture and engaging customers to develop systems design (including architecture, CONOPs, and deployment options) for both classified and unclassified processing and communications systems.
Experience in capture and pursuit efforts, including proposal and white paper development.
Active and transferable U.S. government issued Top Secret security clearance is required prior to start date.
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Strong technical skills across multiple disciplines, which include architecture development, cloud enabling technologies (virtualization, automation, scripting), compute, storage, networking, encryption, cyber security, etc.
Experience leading a multi-disciplined team of DT professionals.
Demonstrated ability to effectively work with and communicate the customer, all levels of management and with individual contributors on the program team.
Customer facing DT architecture or pre-sales engineering experience, preferably supporting DT or defense related technology or service solutions.
Innovative and strategic approach to problem solving
Strong written, verbal and executive level presentation skills; ability to decompose, document, and communicate architecture rationale, approach, design, and governance.
Possess an understanding of Digital Engineering principles including Model Based System Engineering, DevOps/DevSecOps pipelines, and Agile Development Methodologies.
Experience supporting DoD projects and/or startup company environments.

Responsibilities

Assess where DT capabilities and emerging technologies can be applied to capture efforts to increase the likelihood our solutions will be selected.
Develop DT pursuit strategies and provide technical leadership across multiple capture efforts.
Develop Architectures and solutions, conveying these architectures and their benefits in a compelling way in formal proposals to end customers.
Collaborate with business capture teams to develop concepts for communications, computing environments, and embedded tactical networked systems, across a wide variety of platforms and environments.
Serve as a pursuit author or technical volume lead as appropriate.
Develop technology roadmaps for SBU.
Create and leverage end customer relationships.
Influence peers to create cross-company solutions in support of company growth.
Leverage Corporate DT Secure architecture solutions for collaborative networks both domestically and internationally, including Import / Export and ITAR/EAR solutions.