Associate Director, Data & AI Platform Architect (REMOTE)

Date Posted:

2025-06-03

Country:

United States of America

Location:

UT6: 4 Farm Springs 4 Farm Springs Road, Farmington, CT, 06032 USA

Position Role Type:

Remote

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

This job requires a U.S. Person. A U.S. Person is a lawful permanent resident as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) or who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3). U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, or individuals granted refugee or asylee status in the U.S. are considered U.S. persons. For a complete definition of “U.S. Person” go here. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.62

Security Clearance:

None/Not Required

RTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 185,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

The following position is to join our Enterprise Services - Team.

The RTX Enterprise Data Services Organization is seeking an Associate Director, Data, AI & Software Cloud Platform Architect (Associate Director, Data Science and Analytics).

XETA is RTX’s enterprise-wide Digital Platform Portfolio for Cloud, Data Management, Analytics, AI/ML and Software Factory.  XETA provides an E2E turnkey platform so RTX practitioners can focus on delivering business value.

Great Opportunity!

Provide technical thought leadership to teams in support of high visibility technology investments with significant business impact.

Collaborate with RTX-wide stakeholders to expand XETA Analytics, XETA AI & XETA Dev platform capabilities. 

What You Will Do: 

• Lead the design and build of enterprise-wide Analytics, AI and Software platform capabilities.
• Automate the deployment, management and observability of platform services.
• Design and build integrations to create composite platform services or centralized coordination services.
• Collaborate with the XETA Cloud Platform team on enhancements in new or existing regions.
• Collaborate with Cloud & Data Platform SMEs to design multi-cloud, multi-region COTS deployments.
• Partner with BUs and Corporate Functions to design, build and deploy Business Solution.
• Influence decisions and drive alignment across organizational boundaries.
• Define standards and best practices.
• Provide input/collaborate on Reference Architectures and Design Patterns.
• Participate in RTX-wide technology councils as needed (Ex. Enterprise Architecture, Data Boards)
• Continuously evaluate new technologies / services.

What You Will Do:

• Hands-on design & build of cloud deployments
• Lead and mentor less experienced team members
• Provide input to Product Management on Roadmap and Sequencing.
• Translate Product Roadmaps into foundation platform capabilities. Participate in Intake and Long-Range Planning.
• Provide guidance on prioritization based on RTX-wide impact, synergies.
• Lead a subset of cross-team PI technical goal setting and assist multiple scrum teams in identifying dependences and sequencing.
• Collaborate with product management and business stakeholders to continuously evolve the platform technical strategy.
• Lead the harmonization of technical requirements across BUs/Enterprise Services.
• Lead planning with Cloud suppliers to maximize RTX technical investments.
• Travel 10-20% domestically.

Qualifications You Must Have: 

• Minimum of 12+ years’ experience with modern data applications & platforms utilizing AWS, Azure and Hybrid and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) or equivalent combination of related work experience and schooling in lieu of degree; Advanced degree and 10+ years’ related work experience.
• Expert in DevSecOps practices – ex. IaC, CI/CD, Code Scanning & Analysis.
• Experience in Agile software delivery practices and expectations.
• Experience working with Product Management to build business cases for multi-year investments.
• U.S. Citizen,