About the position
This position is available onsite in Cedar Rapids, IA - Sterling, VA, - Richardson, TX or REMOTELY with ~25% travel for the right candidate. At Collins Aerospace, we're working side-by-side with our customers and partners to dream, design and deliver solutions that redefine the future of our industry. We're reaching across markets, disciplines and boundaries to develop new and more advanced technologies. And, together, we're making the most powerful concepts in aerospace a reality. Join our dynamic team as a Senior Technical Fellow within Advanced Technology & Capabilities organization. This individual will lead strategic roadmap development and work closely with cross-functional leaders to drive innovation, build team cohesion and understand how to influence teams to make value added changes and develop a positive culture of continuous improvement. With a strong business acumen to effectively communicate and influence executive leadership, this prestigious role offers the opportunity to showcase your technical proficiency in Data & AI and supports the entire Connected Battlespace Strategic Initiative. The Senior Technical Fellow will own the establishment and execution of medium-term to long-term strategic roadmaps, plans, objectives, vision statements that align technology, customer (DOD) needs and create the opportunities for our future business. This person must demonstrate a profound technical proficiency along with exceptional communication and presentation skills, as they play a pivotal role in shaping and influencing the business strategy which requires both depth and breadth in key technologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead the AI & Data technology roadmap and support integration into product line strategies for JADC2 solutions
- Collaborate with leaders across Mission Systems and beyond to integrate AI solutions into JADC2 systems and processes, and to large scale demonstrations
- Lead the establishment of objectives for execution of mapping and modeling of key engineering business process flows to optimize efficiency and meet program / DOD needs
- Partner with divisional senior executive leadership, key stakeholders, process owners, and subject matter experts to identify and communicate key customer strategic initiatives/ DOD vision on Data & AI
- Work closely with Business Development on market trends and define the technology needs required to align the portfolio
- Lead in the definition and execution of engineering policies and procedures that bring value to programs and insight to leadership
- Mentor programs leaders, customer desires, wants and needs
- Identify and structure improvement opportunities and projects. Advise on and help drive the business operations agenda
- Lead cross discipline teams. Engage across disciplines to bring focus to strategic projects and add value and velocity to engineering
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across departments and business units
- Present your ideas to internal and external groups; lead proposal and white paper activities; and represent Collins Aerospace at technical conferences and working groups
- Understand and promote key analytical projects that assist and influence the business. Ensure alignment with the customer program objectives
- Be a resource for policy knowledge and provide strategic guidance on related issues to leadership
- Active engagement with RTX Business Units and recognized as an expert externally by regulatory bodies, customers and/or universities
- Provide leadership to facilitate high quality technical decisions, product competitiveness and robust solutions
- Engagement across the enterprise to share expertise, driving quality and success across the larger business
- Lead the development and execution of strategic plans to advance product technology and organizational capability
- Forward looking leadership to identify potential external technology disruptors and evaluate strategic applications
- Be active, visible, and engaged in external technical communities, government standards committees and shape the future of the business, particularly as it relates to emerging technology and trends in command and control in military operations
- Actively engaged in the attraction of top technical talent. Build and maintain a strong talent pipeline
- Take personal responsibility to develop, advocate and retain the next generation of technical leaders, as well as delivering enrichment opportunities
- Ensure compliance with international trade policies and procedures
- Ensure the protection of Collins Aerospace intellectual property; safeguard customer and supplier/partner intellectual property
- Selected candidate will be required to obtain and maintain special access program (SAP) clearance and/or an SCI clearance
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing machine learning models and algorithms to solve business challenges
- Knowledge of cybersecurity principles and their application in command and control environments
- Proficiency with embedded C/C++
- Proficiency with scripting languages (Bash & Python)
- Experience with creating and maintaining directorate or organizational strategic roadmaps, customer trend analysis and disrupter technology
- Requires expert knowledge and mastery of multiple work areas typically obtained through advanced academic qualifications combined with experience
- Experience with establishing or modifying customer requirements, processes and procedures to drive positive results within the business
- Executive level communication skills are required, as the AI & Data Architect works within and across mission area programs to be successful and serves as the single point of contact for Engineering activities
- Possess Patents, Publications, and/or Technical Presentations to industry
- Familiarity with Earned Value Management best practices and experience in execution
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 14 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 12 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 18 years of relevant experience
- Active and transferable DoD Secret Clearance is required prior to start date
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
Nice-to-haves
- Technical expert level understanding of the operational environment as it relates to relevant technologies (AI/ML, C2, and data analytics)
- Familiarity with simulation and modeling tools for command and control scenarios
- Direct recent experience working JADC2
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
- Experience with big data technologies and data visualization tools
- Experience with cost accounting structure and financial systems
- Exceptional engineering analytical and decision-making skills with strong ability to be creative and innovative in designing solutions
- Experience leading and training technical teams of junior to mid-level systems engineers and analysts and ability and balance development priorities with near/long term program objectives
- Current Top Secret/SCI clearance is preferred
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
- And more!
