Project Engineer (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-01-08

Country:

United States of America

Location:

VA542: 22260 Pacific Blvd, Dulles 22260 Pacific Boulevard Building CC4, Sterling, VA, 20166-6916 USA

Position Role Type:

Unspecified

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.

 

We are seeking a highly motivated and talented Project Engineer with a strong interest in program management of cross-functional teams in the design, development and maintenance of full-stack, AI-based enterprise applications. This position will be onsite in Tysons Corner, VA.

 

What you will do:

• Turn business requirements into application features and capabilities, map use cases to granular team tasks and produce detailed production project work plans 

• Lead the engagement team to perform implementation activities in collaboration with partner AI team members from Application Development, Data Integration, Solution Architecture, Data Science, Products, QA, and DevOps

• Dive into technical details and lead activities to ensure successful delivery to our customers (e.g., functional scoping, application and data integration quality assurance, deliver training, issue debugging and resolution)

• Anticipate stakeholder needs, remove obstacles and accelerate the path to customer success, track and address risks before they become issues, solve delivery challenges, addressing resource contention, scoping issues and managing expectations

 

Qualifications you must have:

• Leadership experience, the ability to enforce good project governance and promote delivery excellence 

• Experience solving undefined, difficult and often complex problems that require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem. 

• Experience talking to people from multiple departments or specialties.

• Experience making moderate to significant improvements of systems, products or processes.

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience

• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued Secret security clearance or higher is required

• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

 

Qualifications we prefer:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research or similar field; Advanced Engineering degree or MBA preferred 

• Minimum of 6-8 years delivery management experience with enterprise SaaS solutions 

• Experience leading engagements with substantial exposure and involvement with data science, cloud infrastructure, solution architecture, application development, and data engineering 

• Credible customer presence, capable of stepping into a trusted advisor role 

• Data-driven, analytically oriented, with a commitment to process improvement 

• Ability to successfully communicate and work with senior executive stakeholders 

• Effectively work across customer and internal teams to problem solve, define scope, write technical specifications, quantify and track success metrics, and manage against a plan 

• Demonstrated ability to navigate between the business and technical domains of a software implementation project, providing leadership in both 

• Excellent presentation, written, communication with keen attention to detail, and interpersonal skill

• Existing U.S. Secret, TS/SCI Poly (CI or FS)security clearance is highly preferred

What We Offer

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