Es digital solutions agile transformation leader

Date Posted: 2026-10-02

Country: United States of America

Location: US-MA-REMOTE

Position Role Type: Remote

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Security Clearance Type: None/Not Required

Security Clearance Status: Not Required

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

The ES Digital Solutions Agile Transformation Leader strengthens enterprise execution by defining Agile governance, establishing operating rhythms, and creating systems that improve predictability, flow, and transparency across ARTs and Solution Trains. This role directs the Agile transformation roadmap, builds leadership alignment, resolves systemic cross-team impediments, and adapts SAFe to RTX’s operating realities. This role will also continue to stay abreast of current Agile frameworks and apply flexibility to fit with the work. By collaborating with Metrics Governance, Tooling, Value Management, RTE leadership, and CORE, the Agile Transformation Leader ensures Agile practices, flow insights, and delivery signals are integrated seamlessly across Digital, enabling better decision quality, improved value delivery, and a consistent, scalable Agile transformation.

What You Will Do

• Lead Enterprise Agile Transformation
• Own and prioritize the enterprise Agile transformation backlog, OKRs, and multi‑year roadmap.
• Define readiness, governance, and adoption mechanisms that drive predictable execution across ARTs and Solution Trains.
• Adapt SAFe and Lean‑Agile practices to RTX’s operating environment using ASPC expertise.
• Identify and resolve systemic cross‑team impediments to improve flow, transparency, and alignment.
• Build Leadership Capability
• Coach senior leaders, directors, managers, RTEs, and Scrum Masters to strengthen Agile leadership, governance discipline, and decision‑quality.
• Facilitate executive workshops and SAFe training to align leadership behavior with Agile operating‑model expectations.
• Establish and mature Agile Communities of Practice (RTE, STE, Agile Leadership) to scale enterprise capability.
• Establish Agile Governance, Flow, and Transparency
• Design enterprise governance rhythms that enhance dependency management, joint planning, and predictability.
• Define standards for Agile reporting, readiness, maturity, and transformation visibility.
• Partner with Metrics Governance to align flow metrics, maturity indicators, and OKRs with Agile execution visibility for leaders.
• Convert execution data into insights highlighting risks, bottlenecks, and enterprise improvement opportunities.
• Align Portfolio, Strategy, and Value Delivery
• Shape Lean Portfolio Management practices to strengthen prioritization, flow, and value alignment.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable delivery signals across value streams.
• Partner with Value Management to align Agile ways of working with investment decisions and value realization.
• Enable Large‑Scale & Solution‑Level Delivery
• Coach ART and Solution Train leaders to improve flow, readiness, dependency management, and cross‑team alignment.
• Provide STE-aligned guidance for solution-level flow mapping, cross-team coordination, and Agile-oriented systems engineering support.
• Strengthen coordination across ARTs, engineering, product, and business stakeholders to operate as a connected enterprise system.
• Define & Mature the Enterprise Agile Operating Model
• Develop and evolve Agile standards, role expectations, governance mechanisms, and operating practices.
• Partner with CORE teams to ensure Agile execution practices support and align with broader CORE operating model initiatives.
• Create scalable documentation, playbooks, decision frameworks, and templates that institutionalize Agile practice.
• Continuously assess Agile operating model effectiveness and recommend improvements based on outcomes and emerging practices.

What You Will Learn

• Advance enterprise operating model architecture, expanding your ability to design the systems, governance patterns, and flow mechanisms that unify execution across Digital’s value streams.
• Deepen enterprise portfolio strategy alignment, strengthening your capability to connect investment signals, prioritization models, and long-range strategy into a unified operating framework.
• Broaden executive-level transformation influence, enhancing your ability to guide senior leaders through enterprise adoption, alignment, and behavior change required for large-scale Agile operations.
• Expand multi-year transformation strategy design, maturing your ability to architect adoption roadmaps, orchestrate cross-domain change, and create systems that sustain outcomes across engineering, product, architecture, and business operations.
• Enhance end-to-end enterprise delivery orchestration, building advanced skill in system-level flow design, cross-team coordination, dependency patterning, and delivery predictability across ARTs and Solution Trains.

Required Qualifications

• Current SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) certification.
• 8–10+ years of progressive Agile/Lean experience, including enterprise transformation leadership, coaching, and organizational change.
• Demonstrated experience launching, scaling, or transforming Agile Release Trains (ARTs), Solution Trains, or comparable large-scale delivery organizations.
• Proven experience designing and implementing Agile governance, transformation readiness, operating rhythms, and adoption mechanisms.
• Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels and translate ambiguous transformation objectives into actionable roadmaps and standards.
• Strong executive presence with demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive alignment across organizational boundaries.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose systemic organizational challenges and develop solutions where established processes or answers do not yet exist.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, communication, and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Experience using data, metrics, and organizational insights to drive transformation decisions and improve execution outcomes.
• Certified CORE Professional, equivalent, or certification within 6 months.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) and/or Solution Train Engineer (STE) experience.
• Current Advanced SAFe Practice Consultant (ASPC) certification.
• Demonstrated experience with Lean Portfolio Management, portfolio flow, and value management.
• Experience defining or evolving an enterprise Agile operating model and multi-year transformation roadmap.
• Experience establishing enterprise Agile standards, playbooks, Communities of Practice, and governance frameworks.
• Experience collaborating across enterprise operating-model, digital, engineering, or continuous-improvement initiatives to ensure Agile practices align appropriately.
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and enterprise reporting/analytics platforms.
• Experience operating in a complex, multi-site, highly matrixed enterprise environment.

Please ensure the role type defined below is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role. This position is classified as:

• Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.
• Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite. Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader.
• Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home). If you live within a reasonable commute of an RTX site with other colleagues you interact with, your manager will discuss whether there is a degree of onsite presence associated with this role.

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.

Requires broad management and leadership knowledge to lead project teams.

Typically requires: A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years experience Engineering/Other Technical Positions: Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations.

As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site, hybrid or remote.

The salary range for this role is 132,400 USD - 251,600 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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