XBR Development Integrated Product Team Lead (IPTL)

RTX•Woburn, MA

23h•Onsite

About The Position

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company with 185,000 employees, great minds are united by purpose to solve complex global problems. Raytheon, with over 100 years of engineering expertise, delivers solutions to help defend nations and deter aggression. The Air & Space Defense Systems (ASDS) organization is seeking a skilled and motivated Development Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead for the X-Band Radar (XBR) Program within the Radar Development Contract (RDC). XBR is the primary payload on the SBX system, a mobile, ocean-going platform with the world's largest phased-array X-band radar, serving as a midcourse discrimination sensor for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system. Future development is planned to enhance SBX utilization for the Space Domain Awareness mission. In this role, you will oversee the strategy, execution, development, and delivery of all XBR Software products across a scaled agile environment, ensuring quality, timeliness, and cost efficiency in accordance with contract requirements, budget, and schedule. This position involves frequent collaboration with program management, the office of the chief engineer, other IPTs, and external parties. Key responsibilities include managing costs, schedules, and execution activities such as Estimate at Completion (EAC) reviews, proposal costing, leadership reviews, staffing projections, and monthly metrics tracking. As IPT Lead, you will drive technical, schedule, and cost performance to deliver products compliant with contract requirements, developing solutions that optimize overall program performance, supportability, and long-term sustainment. The successful candidate must effectively communicate status, issues, and resolutions to leadership regarding matters impacting program success.

Requirements

Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and 10 years of relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations.
Experience managing project or program cost, schedule and risk or experience with Earned Value Management, Risk & Opportunity, IMS tools.
Experience presenting program and technical issues to senior stakeholders.
Experience in Software Engineering, Systems Engineering and/or System Integration.
Active and transferable U.S. government issued 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 interpersonal skills working in a team environment with positive interaction
Self-starter – proactive in determining goals and objectives and pursuing the necessary course of action
Experience with proposal or capture efforts.
Experience in preparing customer and/or management level briefings
Experience with similar radar development programs
Earned Value Management System Certification
PMX Level 6 Certification
Experience working on a development program using agile/scrum and in DevSecOps/Automation

Responsibilities

Lead engineering activities across multi-disciplinary teams supporting XBR Development.
Be proactive in identifying team execution issues, develop handling strategies and help drive selected solutions to closure.
Ensuring cost and schedule for on time delivery of software to meet the mission, contractual obligations, and customer expectations.
Support scaled agile implementation with Program Increment Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Demos to ensure execution aligns with build plans
Interaction with the customer community, the program office, functional and technical leaders.
Early identification of risks and opportunities, along with mitigation and capture plans.
Partner with engineering leads to provide cost-effective, rapid technical solutions.
Establish open and effective communication with team members, ensuring team cross training, mentoring and growth opportunities.
Frequent communications with the customer engineering group, ensuring a positive customer relationship.
Brief customer program office weekly on engineering progress.
Support strategic efforts to identify and advocate for future growth of system such as white papers, requests for information, proposals, and budgetary planning estimates.
Regular review of program status including tracking and review by both Engineering and Program Leadership.
Responsibility for development of software proposals and support to all program proposal efforts, including negotiations and reviews for any new scope and any potential contract modifications to ensure success and growth for the business.