Senior Software Engineering Manager - ARINCDirect Connectivity & Tools (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-03-25

Country:

United States of America

Location:

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

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Are you prepared to lead a team of talented engineers responsible for numerous products that lead the business aviation segment?

ARINCDirect, part of the Connected Aviation unit of Collins Aerospace, has built the world's leading business aviation software platform, providing solutions to over half of the business aviation market. We provide a one-stop-shop for customers that handles their planning, scheduling, and connectivity needs.

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll provide leadership, technical guidance, and product vision to a team of engineers, technical project managers, product owners, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to design and develop services, products, and infrastructure used by thousands of customers each day. Our product and service portfolio is expansive, and you will operate across our suite of customer-facing products, as well as other integral internal systems.

In this role, you will lead, support, and inspire the members of your team. As a hands-on leader, you’ll help them fulfill technical, operational, and business requirements. You’ll work alongside senior engineers and partners across Product, Design, Sales, Marketing, and Engineering to guide architecture and delivery of major infrastructure and product improvements. The ideal candidate will be able to solve complex technical challenges while delivering incredible improvements to product reliability and quality.

What You Will Do:

• You will lead and support a culture of collaboration, critique, and candid feedback.
• You will mentor and grow engineers to foster an extremely high-performing team.
• You will contribute architectural solutions and code implementations at the senior engineer level as part of your hands-on work with the team (code-review, jump starting new projects, taking on tickets). You will spend less than half of your time coding.
• You will work with stakeholders and product owners to define roadmaps.
• You will lead teams that ship major new improvements to a visible and important product or area.
• You will collaborate with product owners and engineering leadership to break down complex projects into smaller pieces and iterate on their design and implementation.
• You will develop your team’s skills and advance their careers. You won’t shy away from performance conversations, and you recognize the relationship between objective feedback and career growth.
• You will assist with incident response, manage on-call rotations, SLA creation and management, and runbook creation.
• You will represent your team and the work to audiences with differing levels of technical fluency.
• You will empower and inspire commitment and a positive attitude in your team.
• You will work with the Talent Acquisition & HR teams to interview, onboard, and retain top talent.

What You Will Learn:

• You will develop a deep understanding of the aviation industry and collaborate with cross-functional partners across engineering and the Collins Aerospace organization.
• You will apply modern web architectures, frameworks, and testing methodologies to designing and delivering software.
• You will coach and mentor engineers on the most recent thinking regarding best practices for software development.
• You will learn how to navigate and embrace change, overcome challenges, and continuously improve your processes and practices.
• You will extend your management skillset through continuous learning, training, feedback, and coaching.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• 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 or in absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future. RTX will not offer sponsorship for this position.
• Software engineering leadership experience working with and managing engineers across several specialties creating, delivering, and operating highly reliable, scalable services and products.
• Individual contributor engineering experience with Python, .NET, or similar and RDBMS like PostgreSQL. Experience with system/software architecture design, building large web applications and APIs.
• Hiring manager experience including attracting, recruiting, and retaining top engineering talent.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience with cloud technologies like AWS, Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, or similar.
• Experience with microservice and API design, such as OpenAPI specifications.
• Experience with cloud native methods, architectures, and technologies, like DevSecOps, Open Telemetry, Docker, Kubernetes, Knative, Grafana, Helm, or Istio.
• Expertise with system reliability of backend design and implementation.
• Experience in an agile environment with a focus on learning, rapid iteration, continuous improvement, and an openness to new approaches.
• Have worked in a small company or an entrepreneurial environment with experience navigating ambiguity.
• You are a private pilot, you are looking to pursue your private pilot license or have a passion for aviation.

The salary range for this role is 137,000 USD - 275,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.

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