Principal Software Product Owner (Onsite)

RTXRichardson, TX
$107,500 - $204,500Onsite

About The Position

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market. Here at Collins Aerospace, we’re enhancing mission critical systems for our military to deter against current and future adversarial threats. The need for passionate engineers who want to make a difference is now! Our team develops strategic solutions to ensure Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) function accurately, on-time, every time, and under the most extreme circumstances for our national defense. We have an opportunity for a Principal Software Product Owner (PO) to join a cohort of 20+ talented software engineers in developing our Very Low Frequency (VLF) solution for the military. The government has requested a need for greater cyber security threat protection, software assurance, improvement in availability and reliability while harnessing the latest technologies for rapid development and deployment.

Requirements

  • Experience leading a software development team within an Agile methodology
  • Experience with software lifecycle processes, configuration control, and change management in high-integrity development environments
  • Active and transferable Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.
  • Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), system decomposition, and interface control across disciplines
  • Experience with multithreading, memory management, and performance optimization in complex environments
  • Experience in secure coding practices
  • Experience with hardware-software integration and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
  • Experience with development tool sets, including Jira, Git, Visual Studio Code, cmake

Responsibilities

  • Lead a software development team to design and develop our solution to control and monitor mission critical VLF transmitters
  • Work collaboratively with the Product Manager, Software Architect, and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to update and maintain the multi-year Feature Roadmap through development, integration, test, and deployment
  • Decompose Features, groom Stories, establish dependencies, and plan with the development team for the next Increment (3 month lookahead)
  • Support the Product Manager and Control Account Manager (CAM) in capturing data needed to manage scope, schedule, budget, risks, and opportunities
  • Support software requirements and Unified Modeling Language (UML) design diagrams within a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tool
  • Support development and integration of multi-threaded embedded software using C and C++ within a Real Time Operating System (RTOS)
  • Support integration and verification within our automated test framework
  • Support document updates to meet customer Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL)
  • Support bid activities for customer related Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs)

Benefits

  • 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 you can buy 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
  • Eligible for relocation
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