Senior Principal Software Systems Product Owner (onsite)

Senior Principal Systems Software Product Owner

Are you looking to make a meaningful, positive impact while advancing your career? Here at Collins Aerospace, we're enhancing mission critical systems for our military to deter against current and future adversarial threats. The need for passionate engineers who want to make a difference is now! Our team develops strategic solutions to ensure Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) function accurately, on-time, every time, and under the most extreme circumstances for our national defense.

We have an opportunity for a Senior Principal Systems Software Product Owner to join a cohort of 20+ talented software engineers in developing our Very Low Frequency (VLF) solution for the military. The government has requested a need for greater cyber security threat protection, software assurance, improvement in availability and reliability while harnessing the latest technologies for rapid development and deployment.

What You Will Do:

• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to provide software solutions to address system needs
• Lead an established software development team, organized as three Agile sub-teams, to design and develop our solution for aircraft operators to control and monitor mission critical VLF transmitters
• Work collaboratively with Software Architects and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to update and maintain the multi-year Feature Roadmap through development, integration, test, and deployment
• Decompose Features, groom Stories, establish dependencies, and plan with the development team for the next Increment (3 month lookahead)
• Own and update scope, schedule, budget, risks, and opportunities as Cost Account Manager (CAM) using Earned Value (EV) techniques
• Guide the development team in architectural best practices, modularity, code structure, and performance tradeoffs in real-time systems
• Identify areas for optimization and collaborate on architecture-level decisions along with software Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to meet system constraints
• Support software requirements and Unified Modeling Language (UML) design diagrams within a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tool
• Support development and integration of multi-threaded embedded software using C and C++ within a Real Time Operating System (RTOS)
• Support integration and verification within our automated test framework
• Support document updates to meet customer Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL)
• Support bid activities for customer related Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs)

What You Will Learn:

• Full software development lifecycle within defense industry
• Agile development within a classified environment
• Integration and validation on a variety of hardware controller cards
• Best practices in secure software coding on embedded systems

Qualifications You Must Have:

• 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 security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Experience leading a software development team within an Agile methodology.
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), system decomposition, and interface control across disciplines.
• Experience with software lifecycle processes, configuration control, and change management in high-integrity development environments.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience with multithreading, memory management, and performance optimization in complex environments.
• Experience in secure coding practices.
• Experience with hardware-software integration and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing.
• Experience with development tool sets, including Jira, Git, Visual Studio Code, cmake.
• Experience with Qt framework and development tools to generate C++ and QML code.
• Experience with automated test frameworks, unit testing, and requirements traceability.

What We Offer:

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:

• 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
• May be eligible for relocation
• And more!

Learn More & Apply Now! Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you'll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

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 aerospace, every day.