Senior Principal Lead Systems Architect (Onsite)

RTX•Dulles, VA

1d•$172,900 - $328,700•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. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Collins Aerospace is a leader in technologically advanced, intelligent solutions that help redefine the aerospace and defense industry. With a comprehensive portfolio and deep technical expertise, we help customers meet the demands of the global market. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense. We are seeking a Senior Principal Lead Systems Architect with a current Top Secret clearance to work onsite in Sterling, VA. This position serves as a senior technical leader representing the Lead System Architect (LSA) at highly visible, senior level Navy forums and System-of-Systems (SoS) engineering working groups. The role also provides authoritative guidance, strategic technical leadership, and independent decision making across multiple high impact domains that shape the Navy’s and potentially the Air Force’s future Long Range Kill Chain (LRKC) capabilities. The role includes reaching out and coordinating across RTX Corporate offices, Raytheon Strategic Business Units, and Collins Strategic Business Units to highlight to the Navy and Air Force all the RTX solutions and capabilities relevant to LRKCs. This senior leader will help guide activities, investments, and pursuits across all associated RTX LRKC domains.

Requirements

Experience guiding the strategic technical vision of a program including driving the design, development cadence, priorities, etc
Experience conducting trade studies as both an individual contributor and lead
Experience working directly with customers and customer stakeholders in the Department of War
2+ years experience working as Product Owner on a large program
Strong understanding of requirements development processes and MBSE methodologies and proficient in the applicable tools (e.g., DOORS, Cameo, MagicDraw, Rhapsody, or similar)
Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience
Active and transferable U.S. government issued Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility 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

Current TSSCI
Master’s degree in Engineering
Certification in Agile methodologies (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager)
Experience in aerospace or defense industries
Experience with DOORS, JIRA, or similar tools
Experience interfacing with Navy customers
Experience writing Technical Volumes
Experience writing Basis of Estimates
Experience developing cyber security strategies/packages
Experience working in a configuration-controlled environment with multiple variants
Experience with assisting the customer with operational readiness assessments
Experience leading customer facing events/demonstrations

Responsibilities

Lead the LSA’s participation in Performance Assessment Working Groups, owning trade studies, COA assessments, and technical evaluations necessary to determine SoS architecture changes required to align with evolving CONOPs, threats, and mission priorities.
Provide authoritative recommendations to Navy leadership on architecture impacts and risk posture.
Lead Systems Definition Working Group activities to define and mature detailed technical solutions within the SoS architecture.
Drive translation of highlevel warfighter priorities into actionable capability definitions, ensuring architectural feasibility, technical rigor, and traceability.
Serve as a senior technical partner to the Technical Fellow leading the Modeling & Simulation (M&S) efforts.
Drive LSA contributions to the Navy’s SoS M&S baseline, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with operational readiness assessments.
Provide oversight and guidance to ensure LSA MBSE artifacts, data models, and simulation inputs meet the Navy’s technical and programmatic needs.
Partner with the Test & Evaluation (TE) lead expanding LSA coverage across the full scope of TE activities.
Provide independent judgment, strategic technical oversight, and mentoring to ensure comprehensive test planning, traceability to requirements, and alignment with MBSE models and system behavior predictions.
Own the creation, evolution, and configuration management of the System-of-Systems formal Aspec and Bspec requirements.
Provide senior technical leadership in deriving requirements from high level government documents and CONOPS, ensuring completeness, consistency, and integration with MBSE architecture products and test use cases.
Serve as the LSA lead for Advanced Concepts.
Drive trades, COAs, and feasibility analyses for new capabilities, data sources, communication networks, cyber needs, and emerging weapons systems.
Act as the Product Owner of a cross-discipline team using Agile Methodology.

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