Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Lead Systems Engineer (Onsite)

Location: US-NC-MORRISVILLE-907 ~ 951 Aviation Pkwy ~ 907 BLDG

 Position Role Type: Onsite

 U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance​

 Security Clearance Type: Secret - Current

 Security Clearance Status: Active and existing security clearance required on day 1 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. The Secure Subsystems Engineering team seeks a Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Lead Systems Engineer with a passion for innovation and the drive to see new technology and capability matured into fielded solutions. This role ensures the Team is focused on developing talent for cryptography, driving capabilities and architect the crypto system. This is a technical leader embedded within the Scrum Teams to provide technical guidance, influence work backlog, and collaborates with Product Management to plan and deliver solutions. This role will contribute to a team responsible for systems and cyber security engineering tasks related to our next-generation security-enabled mission computing, crypto, and cross-domain technologies, maturing products from low TRL through a program of record accreditation and factory production.

Lead and mentor a Systems Engineering Scrum Team through Design and Development and integration and test efforts Communicate with multiple levels of management, team members, Software, firmware and hardware leads and customers Interface with multiple Hardware and Software Scrum Teams to work through dependencies and technical challenges Work with the systems product owners, system leads to help drive priorities to keep budget and schedule at a strategic level Meet with the project team regularly to identify blockers, remove blockers and mentor individual contributors for technical guidance Help conduct critical path analysis and works closely with the program leadership to manage tasks and workflow Monitor and assess project issues, escalates when necessary, and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction goals and objectives Provide support for proposal and bids, and using estimation tools. SIGN ON BONUS ELIGIBLE Qualifications You Must Have Experience with leading and being an systems architect for programs over $30-50 million, multiple projects with full lifecycle of certification process with the NSA for cryptography.   Experience operating as a Product Owner in an Agile Environment Experience with Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) concepts and tools. Experience capturing customer requirements, design concept development, and deriving and tracing system and sub-system level requirements. Experience with peer review processes, configuration and change management. Familiarity with bidding and project/task estimation tools. Active and transferable SECRET clearance is required prior to start date U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance 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  Qualifications We Prefer Exceptionally strong communication skills, experience presenting technical data to program management. What We Offer     • Medical, dental, and vision insurance       • Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees