Principal Product Owner Systems Engineer

Product Owner

We have an exciting opportunity for a Product Owner supporting one of our premier programs within the Mission Engineering and Platform & Security Integration (PSI) Agile Release Train (ART). In this role, you will lead story definition, backlog prioritization, and work planning for an Agile development team, ensuring user stories are well-defined, prioritized, and aligned with program objectives. You will partner closely with Product Managers, Scrum Masters, software engineers, and systems engineers to maintain a healthy backlog that enables continuous delivery of mission-critical capabilities. This position is contingent upon contract award. The work is on-site in Aurora, CO.

What You Will Do

• Own and maintain the team-level product backlog, ensuring user stories are prioritized, refined, and ready for execution.
• Decompose capabilities and features into actionable user stories with clear acceptance criteria that support mission and customer objectives.
• Validate completed work against acceptance criteria and approve story completion.
• Partner with the Scrum Master, Product Manager, and engineering teams to prepare upcoming sprints while maintaining long-term backlog health.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies with other Product Owners to ensure alignment across Agile Release Train (ART) teams.
• Support capability elaboration, sprint planning, Program Increment (PI) Planning, sprint reviews, and technical program milestones.
• Incorporate systems engineering, integration, cybersecurity, and platform requirements into team-level backlog priorities.
• Communicate backlog priorities, team progress, risks, and dependencies to Product Management, Release Train Engineering (RTE), and program leadership.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience serving as a Product Owner, Backlog Manager, Business Analyst, Systems Engineer, or similar Agile role supporting software development.
• Experience decomposing capabilities and features into user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria and maintaining Agile product backlogs.
• Experience working in Agile development environments, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and Program Increment (PI) Planning.
• Active and transferable U.S. government-issued TS/SCI security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Experience supporting Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Agile Release Trains (ARTs), or other large-scale Agile development environments.
• Experience collaborating with Product Managers, Scrum Masters, Systems Engineers, and software development teams.
• Experience translating customer, operator, or mission needs into prioritized user stories and backlog items.
• Experience supporting systems engineering, mission capability development, or platform-based architectures.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional dependencies across integration, cybersecurity, platform, and software engineering teams.
• Experience using Agile collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar backlog management platforms.
• Experience supporting technical reviews, customer demonstrations, Program Increment (PI) Planning, and release planning activities.

What We Offer

• Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.
• Relocation eligible.