Associate Director - Systems Engineering & Digital Thread Enablement

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About RTX

At RTX, 185,000 people come together with a shared purpose-to solve the world's most complex challenges and make a meaningful difference.

With three industry-leading businesses, world-class operations, and significant investments in research and development, RTX brings together technology, innovation, and expertise to push the boundaries of what is possible.

Together, we develop technologies that help connect and protect our world and shape the future of aerospace and defense.

About Collins Aerospace

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a global leader in technologically advanced and intelligent aerospace and defense solutions.

With deep technical expertise and a comprehensive portfolio of products and services, Collins Aerospace helps customers address some of the most demanding challenges in the global aerospace industry.

Join us and be part of a team that is redefining aerospace through technology, innovation, and engineering excellence.

Job Overview

Collins Aerospace is seeking a dynamic, customer-focused technical leader to modernize and integrate its enterprise engineering tools ecosystem, reduce complexity, and enable connected digital engineering solutions that drive engineering excellence.

In this highly impactful role, you will operate at the intersection of Systems Engineering, Software Development, and Digital Engineering, providing technical leadership in architecting, integrating, and optimizing enterprise engineering applications and platforms.

You will play a critical role in enabling the Digital Thread by establishing connectivity, interoperability, and traceability across engineering disciplines, applications, and lifecycle processes. By leveraging your expertise in systems engineering, software architecture, and application integration, you will transform disconnected engineering tools into a scalable and integrated digital engineering ecosystem.

As a senior technical leader, you will influence architectural decisions, establish engineering integration standards, and contribute to the long-term evolution of enterprise digital engineering capabilities while ensuring operational reliability, regulatory compliance, and alignment with Collins Aerospace enterprise objectives.

What You Will Do

• Provide technical leadership in architecting, implementing, and optimizing enterprise digital engineering solutions.
• Enable connectivity and traceability across engineering artifacts, including requirements, system models, design elements, verification activities, and test results.
• Lead the technical implementation, integration, and optimization of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) toolchains and Engineering Lifecycle Management applications.
• Define strategies for engineering data exchange, artifact relationships, information consistency, and traceability across interconnected systems.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineering stakeholders to understand engineering workflows and develop technically feasible integration solutions.
• Champion systems engineering standards, digital engineering methodologies, and industry best practices to improve engineering effectiveness.
• Serve as a technical authority in digital engineering integration, providing architectural direction and mentoring engineers across Software and Systems Engineering disciplines.
• Collaborate with Engineering customers, Digital Technology teams, Enterprise Architects, Cybersecurity stakeholders, and technology vendors to deliver integrated solutions.
• Influence technical decisions through architectural assessments, trade studies, engineering analysis, and data-driven recommendations.
• Lead root-cause analysis and resolution of complex application, integration, infrastructure, and platform-related issues.
• Communicate complex technical concepts, architectural alternatives, integration risks, and solutions to technical stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Provide technical leadership within Agile Release Trains (ARTs), supporting solution development, integration, and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate emerging digital engineering technologies and recommend innovations that enhance engineering efficiency, integration, and enterprise scalability.

What You Will Learn

• Advanced digital engineering architectures and Digital Thread implementations across Collins Aerospace engineering products and programs.
• Enterprise-scale integration of MBSE, Requirements Management, Verification, Validation, and Test Management applications.
• Emerging digital engineering technologies, including Digital Twins, Model-Based Enterprises, Integrated Digital Environments, and intelligent engineering automation.
• Modern approaches to software integration, engineering data interoperability, platform engineering, and DevSecOps.
• Opportunities to influence enterprise engineering platforms and contribute to Collins Aerospace's broader digital transformation initiatives.
• Industry best practices and advanced technical approaches across multiple engineering disciplines.

Qualifications You Must Have

• A minimum of 12 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related STEM discipline; alternatively, an Advanced Degree with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience in Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Enterprise Application Integration, or Digital Engineering environments.
• Strong understanding of Systems Engineering lifecycle processes, including Requirements Management, System Architecture, Integration, Verification, Validation, Traceability, Interface Design, and Data Exchange.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex application integrations, interoperability challenges, and technical issues across interconnected systems.
• Proven technical leadership capabilities, including influencing architectural decisions and solving complex multidisciplinary problems.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Expert knowledge of multiple technical work areas, with the ability to identify and apply industry best practices.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Advanced degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience architecting or implementing enterprise Digital Thread solutions across multiple engineering lifecycle applications.
• Hands-on experience integrating MBSE, Requirements Management, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), or Test Management platforms.
• Experience with engineering application integration technologies, including Python, Java, .NET, REST APIs, scripting, web services, and enterprise integration frameworks.
• Experience with Cameo Systems Modeler, Teamwork Cloud, SysML, Syndeia, or comparable engineering model integration technologies.
• Familiarity with interoperability standards and data exchange frameworks such as OSLC, ReqIF, REST, and other engineering information exchange standards.
• Strong understanding of engineering data models, artifact relationships, traceability, data governance, synchronization, and information integrity.
• Experience supporting enterprise engineering application infrastructure, including cloud or on-premises deployments, containerization, application administration, and platform upgrades.
• Familiarity with Systems Engineering standards and methodologies, including ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, INCOSE practices, and Model-Based Engineering approaches.
• Experience working in Agile or SAFe environments and collaborating with geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Familiarity with emerging Digital Engineering capabilities, including Digital Twins, Model-Based Enterprises, engineering automation, and AI-enabled engineering solutions.
• Experience with engineering lifecycle management and MBSE applications such as Cameo Systems Modeler, Teamwork Cloud, IBM DOORS, Jama Connect, Polarion, Teamcenter, Syndeia, Jira, Git, GitLab, MATLAB, and Simulink.
• Hands-on experience developing or implementing application integrations using REST APIs, web services, middleware, or comparable technologies.
• Experience with modern software development practices and web browser diagnostics.
• Strong knowledge of the engineering technology market, with the ability to identify best practices and recommend solutions aligned with RTX enterprise objectives.

Educational Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM), or equivalent relevant experience.
• Typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience.
• Alternatively, an Advanced Degree in a related field with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
• Requires expert knowledge of multiple technical work areas, typically acquired through advanced education and professional experience, subject to applicable RTX requirements.

Digital Technology

Do you want to be part of a new, exciting initiative to combine foundational IT with new digital technologies? Our Digital Technology team is driving business efficiencies and a better customer experience by connecting technologies, people, information and processes. From making aircraft more electric, intelligent and integrated to building new software platforms such as Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain, there’s no better place to be right now than in digital. If you’re an agile thinker who enjoys utilizing modern technology to make big improvements, then you’re a perfect fit for this team. Join Collins Aerospace to help us revolutionize the aerospace industry today!

WE ARE REDEFINING AEROSPACE.

*Please consider the following role type definitions as you apply for this role.

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite. Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader.

Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home). An employee may be expected to travel to the site location as needed.

Regardless of your role type, collaboration and innovation are critical to our business and all employees will have access to digital tools so they can work with colleagues around the world - and access to Collins sites when their work requires in-person meetings.

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:

Benefits package includes:

- Meal coupons

- Group Term Life Insurance.

- Group Health Insurance.

- Group Personal Accident Insurance.

- Entitled for 18 days of vacation and 12 days of contingency leave annually.

- Employee scholar programme.

- Work life balance.

- Car lease programme.

- National Pension Scheme

- LTA

- Fuel & Maintenance /Driver wages

- Meal vouchers

Nothing matters more to Collins Aerospace than our strong ethical and safety commitments. As such, all India positions require a background check, which may include a drug screen.

Note:

• Background check and drug screen required (every external new hire in the India)
• Drug Screen only performed for Operations Positions

At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form - with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.

Apply now and be part of the team that’s redefining

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