ES Digital Solutions Agile Transformation Leader

RTX (Raytheon); United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

RTX is seeking an Agile Transformation Leader to steer enterprise-wide SAFe adoption within our Digital Solutions ecosystem. You will define governance, roadmaps, and readiness to improve predictability, flow, and transparency across ARTs and Solution Trains.

You will coach senior leaders, run executive SAFe workshops, and align portfolio strategy with value delivery, while collaborating with CORE, Metrics Governance, and Value Management to mature the operating model.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale Agile transformations across multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of SAFe and Lean-Agile practices.
• Ability to coach executives and senior leadership.
• Experience aligning strategy with delivery metrics.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise Agile transformation and backlog governance.
• Coach senior leaders and run SAFe training.
• Define governance rhythms for dependency management and planning.
• Partner with CORE, Metrics Governance, and Value Management to ensure alignment.
• Guide solution trains and ARTs to improve flow and predictability.

Skills

Agile Leadership

SAFe

Executive coaching

Roadmap planning

Job description

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.