Project Manager (12 months FTC)

RTX; Harlow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

RTX, a world-renowned aerospace and defense leader, is seeking an experienced Project Manager to drive cloud and data platform initiatives. You will bridge business demands with technical delivery, coordinating across architecture, analytics, engineering, and platform teams to translate priorities into scalable, value-driven solutions.

This role emphasizes collaboration, PoCs, pilots, and iterative delivery in a hybrid environment, with a focus on achieving measurable business outcomes and

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering cloud platforms, data, analytics, or technology programmes.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
• Workshop facilitation and discovery leadership.
• Executive-level communication, reporting, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of cloud platform, data, and analytics initiatives.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including Engineers, Architects, Analysts, Product Owners, Security, Operations, and Business stakeholders.
• Foster innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• Manage PoCs, pilots, and trial designs to validate ideas and inform decisions.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Data analytics

Stakeholder engagement

Agile delivery

Workshop facilitation

PoCs & pilots

Executive communication

Job description

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. Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today's mission and stay ahead of tomorrow's threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

Location: Harlow, Essex. Position Role Type: Hybrid.

Candidate Profile

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the delivery of cloud and data platform initiatives, acting as the critical link between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams. This role goes beyond project governance and delivery management. The successful candidate will drive collaboration across business, architecture, engineering, analytics, and platform teams to ensure business objectives are translated into practical, scalable, and value-driven solutions. The Project Manager will foster an environment of innovation, discovery, and continuous improvement, facilitating workshops, challenging assumptions, and enabling teams to explore options through Proofs of Concept (PoCs), pilots, and iterative delivery approaches. They will be comfortable operating in complex and evolving environments where requirements emerge through collaboration and experimentation. Success in this role will depend on the ability to build strong stakeholder relationships, translate business priorities into actionable delivery plans, align diverse teams around common objectives, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Key Responsibilities

• 1. Business Engagement & Solution Translation
  • Partner with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, operational challenges, and desired business outcomes.
  • Translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements for Data Engineering, Architecture, Analytics, BI, and Platform teams.
  • Facilitate discovery workshops, requirements-gathering sessions, and solution design discussions.
  • Challenge and refine requirements to ensure they are achievable, measurable, and aligned to the organisation's cloud and data strategy.
  • Act as the primary interface between business and technical teams, ensuring shared understanding of objectives, priorities, risks, and dependencies.
  • Provide technical teams with the business context required to make informed design and delivery decisions.
  • Translate complex technical concepts, architectural decisions, and platform capabilities into language appropriate for business stakeholders and senior leaders.
  • Manage stakeholder expectations relating to delivery timelines, technical constraints, dependencies, and solution trade-offs.
  • Drive business engagement throughout the delivery lifecycle, ensuring active participation in design, testing, adoption, and solution acceptance activities.
• 2. Delivery Leadership
  • Lead the end-to-end delivery of cloud platform, data, and analytics initiatives, ensuring successful outcomes against agreed objectives.
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams including Engineers, Architects, Analysts, Product Owners, Security, Operations, and Business stakeholders.
  • Create and maintain delivery plans, managing risks, issues, dependencies, and resource requirements.
  • Promote Agile and iterative delivery practices, balancing governance with flexibility and rapid value delivery.
  • Facilitate decision-making, remove blockers, and maintain delivery momentum across multiple workstreams.
  • Ensure solutions are aligned with business priorities and deliver measurable business value.
• 3. Innovation & Collaboration
  • Foster a collaborative culture that encourages innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
  • Support and manage Proofs of Concept (PoCs), pilots, and trial designs to validate ideas, reduce delivery risk, and inform solution decisions.
  • Encourage constructive challenge and exploration of alternative approaches where appropriate.
  • Enable business and technical teams to work together effectively to determine the most appropriate solution path.
  • Champion a test-and-learn mindset that supports evolving business requirements and emerging technologies.

Key Competencies

• Proven experience delivering cloud platforms, data, analytics, digital transformation, or technology programmes.
• Strong business analysis and requirements interpretation skills.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship management capabilities.
• Workshop facilitation and discovery leadership.
• Cross-functional team leadership and matrix management.
• Experience managing Proofs of Concept (PoCs), pilots, and innovation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of Agile, iterative, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Executive-level communication, reporting, and presentation skills.
• Risk, dependency, change, and issue management.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into business language and business requirements into technical outcomes.
• Experience working across both business and technology functions to drive successful delivery.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Privacy Policy and Terms: Click on this link to read the Policy and Terms RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses - Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.