Assoc Director – Engineering Applications REMOTE

Pratt & Whitney is working to once again transform the future of flight—designing, building and servicing engines unlike any the world has ever seen. And because transformation begins from within, we’re seeking the people to drive it. So, calling all curious.

Come ready to explore and you’ll find a place where your talent takes flight—beyond the borders of title, a country or your comfort zone. Bring your passion and commitment and we’ll welcome you into a tight-knit team that takes our mission personally. Channel your drive to make a difference into shaping an organization and an industry that’s evolving fast to the future.

Innovation through diversity of thought. At Pratt & Whitney, we believe diversity of thought enables creativity, innovation, and a foundation for inclusion. By fostering an inclusive culture, we accept a shared accountability and responsibility to recognize, sponsor, coach, hire and promote talent equally. We welcome our employees to be their whole - best - selves at work because trust, respect and integrity, are a part of our DNA.

At Pratt & Whitney, the difference you make is on display every day. Just look up. Are you ready to go beyond?

Digital Technology is looking for a motivated Associate Director for Engineering Applications.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Lead a team working software development efforts for Engineering
• Deliver on software development milestones and program plans, leading the team of software engineers working on deploying new features, enhancements, and fixes
• Work collaboratively with internal and external partners to build roadmaps for these applications
• Ensure the technical environment including all infrastructure operating systems, application and system software is maintained to current versions
• Coordinate all changes in the technical environment with the engineering and DT teams to ensure system availability, reliability, performance, and consistency
• Participate on DT Architecture Boards to provide technical expertise and maintain project continuity and communicate deployment plans, eventually transitioning this responsibility to a team member
• Represent the current and future environment needs of engineering/infrastructure/technical teams and assess impacts of all changes to the technical environment
• Make recommendations on software versions, patches and configurations requirements, and industry standards
• Develop strategies to implement Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery capabilities
• Develop strategies to implement industry standards for software version control, compilation, and release procedures, cloud enablement, developing and maintaining scripts as needed
• Develop a set of measurements to identify continuous improvement opportunities
• Dedicatedly monitor the technical environment to ensure system availability, reliability, and performance
• Consult and support on other Engineering Application development efforts as needed
• Coach and mentor the team, lead through encouragement and support

Experience/Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience with digital, application development, solution architecture including architecture design, application integration, product road mapping, delivery, and support
• Experience with infrastructure industry standards and trends on multiple platforms including Windows, Linux/UNIX, Cloud platforms (Azure)
• Possess exceptional written and oral communication skills, develop clear, concise, and logically written business communications, deliver recommendations effectively
• Experience with Software Development practices and frameworks
• Experience with Software Product Lifecycle practices for managing software, automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
• Demonstrated effectiveness working in a complex, service-intensive, deadline-driven environment
• Ability to build strong relationships to leverage information and insights across key groups
• Strong personal leadership, organizational, relationship-building, and negotiation skills
• Outstanding formal and informal presentation skills
• Ability to inspire confidence in senior management and to be recognized as the authority by many stakeholders
• Self-starter with self-confidence, enthusiasm, and strong customer service orientation

Basic Qualifications:

• U.S. Citizenship required
• Bachelors degree with 12 years experience or Advanced degree with 10 years experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree, Preferred CS, Engineering, MIS or related
• Ability to travel internationally if required
• Skilled at analyzing business process and seeing opportunities for digital solutions
• Experience in supplier management, Project Management, SDLC, Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Good communication skills, work ethic and a high level of personal integrity and accountability
• Willingness to learn new technologies & take on new projects to grow experience
• Highly self-directed and able to learn quickly with a solid ability to drive and deliver results
• Strong analytical skills, demonstrated organizational and leadership skills, examples of effective teamwork, a track record of consistently meeting deadlines and due dates
• Comfortable working with minimal daily supervision and balance numerous priorities
• Ability to remain calm and composed under pressure, in a fast-paced environment of rapidly changing demands
• Experience designing and implementing automated solutions

What is my role type?

In addition to transforming the future of flight, we are also transforming how and where we work. We’ve introduced role types to help you understand how you will operate in our blended work environment. This role is:

Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home).

Candidates will learn more about role type and current site status throughout the recruiting process. For onsite and hybrid roles, commuting to and from the assigned site is the employee’s personal responsibility.

Raytheon Technologies is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.