Senior Architect FLRAA Program

Textron - Fort Worth, TX

Full-time - Senior

Fort Worth, TX

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The Senior Architect for the FLRAA Program at Bell is responsible for leading the development of the next generation vertical lift system for the US Army. This role involves providing thought leadership on operations analysis, modular open system approaches, and system validation throughout the design, verification, and sustainment life cycle. The architect will integrate a broad systems approach to design and verification for major vertical lift programs, ensuring mission effectiveness and operational capabilities are met.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate mission effectiveness of products in a System of Systems environment and design simulations to study impacts of different mission system and vehicle architectures.
• Maintain involvement with architecture implementation through design, integration, and flight test.
• Conduct architecture trades/analyses and create model-based architecture artifacts.
• Lead/support all phases of development from objective architecture, system architecture, system development and integration testing.
• Lead development of architectures and related artifacts utilizing SysML.
• Lead system trades, modeling, simulation, and analysis to assess architecture alternatives for delivering a customer mission effect, data or capability.
• Creation of system performance specifications, interface control documents, and test plans/procedures.
• Understand and communicate operational mission capabilities, use cases, and requirements to engineering teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with a Major in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.
• At least 15 years of relevant experience in aerospace engineering.
• Aircraft system architect with demonstrated architecture development experience.
• Experience in operational analysis for aircraft and mission systems.
• Experience working across program and/or organizational teams.
• Proposal development experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication/presentation skills and excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Experience leading development and customer teams through milestone and technical reviews.
• Working knowledge of open standards such as FACE, HOST, DO-297/IMA, ARINC 653, ARINC 615A, ARINC-661, IEEE Time Sensitive Networking (TSN), CAN, MIL-STD 1553 and ARINC 429.
• Understanding CONOPs for vertical lift weapon systems and related Measures of Performance (MOP) and Measures of Effectiveness (MOE).

Benefits

• 9/80 work schedule allowing for every other Friday off
• 80 hours of Personal Time Off (PTO)
• 120 hours of Vacation time
• 12-13 paid holidays per year
• 6 weeks parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive health insurance
• On-site clinic, pharmacy, physical therapy, and licensed counselor
• Access to more than 11 Employee Resource Groups