Enterprise Agile Transformation Leader

Prattwhitney; Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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

holidays

Job summary

RTX is seeking an Agile Transformation Leader to drive enterprise-wide SAFe adoption and governance. You will lead the transformation backlog, define readiness and adoption mechanisms, and coach leadership across ARTs and Solution Trains to improve flow and delivery.

With 8–10+ years in Agile/Lean and strong stakeholder management, you will align governance, metrics, and value delivery while building scalable communities of practice and advanced SAFe practices.

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead 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.
• Coach senior leaders, directors, managers, RTEs, and Scrum Masters to strengthen Agile leadership and governance discipline.
• 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.

Skills

SPC certification

Agile leadership

Enterprise transformation

ARTs & Trains

Roadmapping

Executive presence

Problem solving

Facilitation

Data-driven decisions

CORE Professional

RTE/STE

ASPC

Lean Portfolio

Enterprise Agile

Governance playbooks

Cross-functional collaboration

Jira/Confluence

Multi-site

Education

University degree or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

RTX is seeking an Agile Transformation Leader to drive enterprise-wide SAFe adoption and governance. You will lead the transformation backlog, define readiness and adoption mechanisms, and coach leadership across ARTs and Solution Trains to improve flow and delivery.

With 8–10+ years in Agile/Lean and strong stakeholder management, you will align governance, metrics, and value delivery while building scalable communities of practice and advanced SAFe practices.