Senior Principal Systems Engineer- Integrated Product Team Lead

Date Posted:

2026-06-16

Country:

United States of America

Location:

US-IA-CEDAR RAPIDS-137 ~ 855 35Th St NE ~ BLDG 137

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 Department is responsible for the design, test, and certification of cross-domain technologies and cryptographic products that equip our warfighters to thrive in today’s multi-domain battlespace. Our department collaborates with portfolio teams across the organization to help capture new business and create security-hardened solutions that address our customers’ demanding needs.  

The Secure Subsystems Engineering team seeks a Senior Principal Systems Engineer- Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead with a passion for innovation and the drive to see new technology and capability matured into fielded solutions. The IPT Lead ensures the Scrum Team is focused on developing the right things and performs Control Account Management (CAM) responsibilities. The IPT Lead 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. 

What You Will Do

• Lead and mentor a Systems Engineering Scrum Team through Design and Development efforts

• Communicate with multiple levels of management, team members, and customers

• Interface with multiple Hardware and Software Scrum Teams to work through dependencies and technical challenges

• Prepare and maintain project plans, budgets, and staffing requirements to ensure that all action item lists are completed, and project quality expectations are met

• Estimate costs, resources, and time required to complete projects to ensure business targets are met

• Maintain and provide analysis of trends, performance, resource cost and forecasting reports

• Gather and analyze data to monitor projects' progress in terms of cost, schedule, and technical specifications to facilitate operations and ensure that established objectives and budgets are achieved

• Meet with the project team regularly to manage project performance, status, open issues, and tasks

• 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 as a Control Account Manager (CAM) focusing on Earned Value (EV)

• Experience capturing customer requirements, design concept development, and deriving and tracing system and sub-system level requirements

• Experience with Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) concepts and 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

• Experience operating as a Product Owner in an Agile Environment

• Experience with peer review processes, configuration and change management

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