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Are you prepared to lead a team of talented engineers responsible for data products that power billions of web and mobile views central to aviation?

Do you want to work with a team that is building systems that help some of the world’s best airlines utilizing real-time data and solving complex mapping challenges. Stack: C#.NET, Angular, AWS, docker, Kubernetes?

As an Engineering Manager in our Connected Aviation Solutions team at Collins Aerospace, you’ll lead and inspire a team of engineers, providing technical guidance and product vision. You'll collaborate with cross-functional partners to develop critical safety-of-flight tools, enabling airlines to monitor and manage their fleets globally. You’ll combine hands-on leadership with mentoring, solving complex technical challenges and enhancing product reliability and quality.

At Collins Aerospace, we foster a collaborative, innovative environment with a passion for aviation and data. We value intellectual curiosity, openness, and technical excellence. We expect strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to deliver and complete projects efficiently.

We are a globally distributed company that values flexibility.

This hybrid position at our Winnersh site offers a polished, professional work environment, as well as a supportive and enjoyable team to work with.

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, on-call participation, jump starting new projects, implementing tickets).
• You will split your time across people management and coding.
• YOU will work with stakeholders and product owners to define roadmaps.
• YOU will lead integrated product development 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 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 the Collins Aerospace organization.
• YOU will apply cloud native approaches to architecting and delivering software.
• YOU will coach and mentor engineers on the most recent thinking regarding best practices for software development, ranging from computer science fundamentals to 12 Factor app methodology.
• 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, trainings, feedback, and coaching.

Qualifications you must have:

• Software engineering leadership experience as both a people manager and a leader of a cross-functional integrated product development team.
• Recent individual contributor experience implementing solutions with C# (or equivalent backend languages like Java, C++, Golang, Rust) and a modern JavaScript framework. You must be adept in SQL, with experience in PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• You have a demonstrated ability to represent your team and their work to stakeholders with differing levels of technical fluency.
• Experience with system/software architecture design, building large, scalable, high availability systems.
• Hiring manager experience with the full recruitment lifecycle including attracting, recruiting, and retaining top engineering talent.

Skills we value:

• Experience with cloud native methods, architectures, and technologies, like DevSecOps, Open Telemetry, Kubernetes, Knative, Grafana, Helm, or Istio.
• Experience with big data, streaming, queuing, and cloud technologies like AWS, Cloudflare, Spark, or Kafka.
• Experience with microservice design and interaction including service meshes, API contracts, and REST.
• Experience delivering front-end applications utilizing Angular.
• Execution focused with an ability to navigate ambiguity. Have worked successfully in a small company or an entrepreneurial environment.
• Interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence. Deeply empathetic and caring. You possess a willingness to empower and inspire commitment and a positive attitude in a team.
• An agile mindset with a focus on learning, rapid iteration, continuous improvement, and an openness to new approaches.
• You are a private pilot, you are looking to pursue your private pilot license, or have a passion for aviation!

About us:

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.  

Our Connected Aviation Solutions team provides advanced information management systems, products and services that enable the connected ecosystem by bringing together Collins’ unique breadth of aviation products with our smart digital solutions to help us enhance every aspect of the end-to-end travel experience. We help airlines, airports and business aircraft turn data into value to streamline operations, increase efficiency and reduce cost, enhance the passenger experience and contribute to sustainable flight. By combining the best networks, connectivity and data/analytics solutions, we’re solving big problems for our customers and the world, while enhancing the security and connectivity of systems both on and off the aircraft, to help operators and passengers stay more connected and informed and create a more sustainable, efficient, reliable and enjoyable travel experience. Aviation connects the world. Our Connected Aviation Solutions team connects aviation. Sustainably. Seamlessly. Securely.

Diversity drives innovation; inclusion drives success. We believe a multitude of approaches and ideas enable us to deliver the best results for our workforce, workplace, and customers. We are committed to fostering a culture where all employees can share their passions and ideas so we can tackle the toughest challenges in our industry and pave new paths to limitless possibility.

 WE ARE REDEFINING AEROSPACE. 

Some of our competitive benefits package includes: 

• Competitive Salary
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health & Wellbeing Cash Plan
• Fantastic Pension Scheme which operates as a 2:1 match up to 10%
• Life Assurance
• 25 days vacation plus bank holidays plus the ability to buy/sell 5 days per year
• Flexible working
• Employee selectable top up benefits
• And so much more!

At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.

Apply now and be part of the team that’s redefining aerospace, every day.

RTX 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.

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