Associate Director - Ops & Dispatch Engineering (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-05-29

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HMD31: Annapolis, MD 2551 Riva Road , Annapolis, MD, 21401-7435 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

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

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the company’s immigration sponsorship now or in the future. The company will not offer immigration sponsorship for this position.​ The company will not seek an export authorization for this role.

Security Clearance:

None/Not Required

Do you want to drive successful software delivery to thousands of customers in a way that facilitates flight operations and traveler experiences across the globe?

Operations & Dispatch, part of Connected Aviation inside Collins Aerospace, has a suite of applications that service the Commercial and Business Aviation industries. We’ve built the world's leading business aviation software platform, servicing over half of the business aviation market, providing a one-stop-shop for BizAv customers that handles their planning, scheduling, and connectivity needs. We’ve also built a suite of flagship messaging products that service a large part of the Commercial Aviation market.

Operations & Dispatch Engineering consists of teams that develop and deliver an array of services powering its products. These teams tackle a broad set of technologies and solve challenging technical and product problems daily. From collecting and interpreting aviation datasets, to enriching them with procedural solutions and delivering them through APIs, web interfaces, and mobile products, our engineers work in a dynamic environment that tests their ability to achieve the company’s vision.

We’re seeking a talented engineering leader to head this organization within Collins Aerospace. In this role, you’ll provide leadership, technical guidance, and product vision to an organization of teams and engineering managers. You’ll be responsible for organization building, delegation, service architecture and reliability, customer satisfaction, hiring, retention, and driving results across a large org. You’ll also work closely with senior organizational leaders across Sales, Marketing, Product, Program, Customer Service, and more to align engineering priorities with business goals.

As the leader of Operations & Dispatch Engineering, you’ll join a highly collaborative and ambitious team, passionate about aviation and data. Our team champions intellectual curiosity, openness, and industry-leading technical innovation. We invest in building excellent internal tooling and support structures (e.g., learning groups and knowledge centers) to create a productive and highly effective organization that anticipates the future and leads by example. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented senior engineering leaders while sharing your expertise and learning from others. 

Working at Collins Aerospace means you are a member of a dynamic and high functioning team where your opinion matters, and your work will have a highly visible impact. We also make time to have fun, share our passions, and be ourselves. Regardless of role, we expect excellent interpersonal and communication skills across all hires at Collins Aerospace. We look for candidates who will thrive here, meaning they demonstrate clear communication, embrace open feedback, trust their colleagues, and are driven to execute, deliver, and complete projects independently and efficiently.

This position is onsite and can be located in Annapolis, MD; Houston, TX; Charlotte, NC; or Cedar Rapids, IA.

What You Will Do:

• Establish a clear vision for the group, promoting innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement that empowers managers and ICs. 
• Foster leadership growth within the organization by mentoring managers and developing clear succession plans. 
• Act as a hiring manager for engineering managers. 
• Own the organizations entire technical stack, including a number of high-performance distributed systems with strict SLAs. 
• Drive DevSecOps and Continuous Delivery maturity. 
• Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement. 
• Identify, implement, and champion process improvements across the engineering organization to enhance productivity, collaboration, and delivery efficiency, while ensuring alignment with company goals and industry best practices. 
• Drive business growth across the organization through product vision and leadership, efficient execution and delivery, and successful hiring and retention. 
• Work with business and product leaders to define roadmaps. 
• Own the organization’s engineering budget, produci