Senior Principal Software Systems Product Owner (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-10-09

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HTX36: Richardson, TX 3200 E Renner Rd , Richardson, TX, 75082-2402 USA

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:

Secret - Current

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 (PO) 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 acti