Cyber & Compliance Leader - Connected Digital Products (Remote)

Date Posted:

2026-06-08

Country:

United States of America

Location:

US-NC-REMOTE

Position Role Type:

Remote

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the company’s immigration sponsorship now or in the future. The company will not offer immigration sponsorship for this position.​ The company will not seek an export authorization for this role.

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 Collins Aerospace Cybersecurity & Compliance team is looking for a self-motivated, experienced professional to fulfill a new Connected Aviation Cybersecurity and Compliance Leader (CCL) role. Connected Aviation focuses on providing advanced, integrated solutions that enhance connectivity, efficiency, and safety in the aviation industry. This includes offering cutting-edge technologies and services for aircraft connectivity, data management, and communication systems. Their solutions enable seamless communication between aircraft, ground operations, and air traffic control, improving operational efficiency, passenger experience, and overall aviation safety. The business unit supports both commercial and military aviation sectors, leveraging innovative technologies to drive advancements in connected aviation ecosystems. The CCL role is highly visible as a key contributor to the overall success of the Cyber Mission Support (CMS) team. 

The CCL will interact extensively across the organization and with external stakeholders, serving as a central coordination and influence point for cybersecurity matters. Internally, the role regularly engages executive leadership, IT and engineering teams, legal, compliance, privacy, risk management, internal audit, and business unit leaders, with communications focused on translating cyber risk into business impact, aligning priorities, guiding execution, and resolving issues. Externally, the role will communicate with regulators, auditors, customers, partners, and key vendors to articulate the organization’s security posture, address findings or concerns, negotiate requirements and plans to achieve, and build trust.

The CCL plays a significant influential role by acting as a trusted extension of the business CISO, using credibility, expertise, and relationships to persuade stakeholders inside and outside the organization. Internally, they translate cybersecurity strategy and risk into business-relevant terms, enabling leaders and teams to understand trade-offs, align priorities, and adopt security practices without relying solely on authority. Externally, they represent the organization with regulators, auditors, customers, and partners, shaping expectations and reinforcing trust through clear communication and demonstrated command of both technical and business considerations. Their influence is rooted in earned confidence and practical leadership, making them a key driver of alignment, decision-making, and sustained cybersecurity maturity.

This CCL will face complex, and high impact challenges that span technology, people, and governance in which solutions are expected.  Anticipated problems including balancing risk reduction with speed of business, modernizing security capabilities amid legacy systems and resource constraints, and translating regulatory or audit findings into sustainable operational improvements.  The CCL must also navigate organizational resistance, competing priorities, and ambiguity in ownership across functions.  The CCL will often be seen as accountable to harmonization and cyber issue resolution across the business while escalating strategically to the business CISO when business-wide tradeoffs or executive decisions are required.

The CCL is a champion of Enterprise Services Cybersecurity & Compliance mission adoption and a liaison between the business areas and the Cybersecurity & Compliance organization. The CCL supports proactive planning and delivery of cyber and compliance services.  This person will work to understand the needs and environments of the business unit to identify opportunities to improve cyber service delivery and support actions to reduce cyber and compliance risk via process, tools, and organizational relationships. In short, this position helps reduce risk by simplifying and tailoring delivery and consumption of Cyber & Compliance services for the business unit.

What You Will Do:

• Lead maturity of the Cybersecurity Mission Support service delivery for their specific function, which includes the development of operational plans, associated processes to support its execution, and facilitation of all SBU Cybersecurity & Compliance activities.

• Serve as concierge to help the functions navigate cyber and compliance services.

• Establish risk ownership and accountability within the business line.

• Represent the Cybersecurity & Compliance functional services to support alignment of resources, priorities and support within the functions. Similarly, represent function’s business needs to help drive appropriate prioritization in Cybersecurity & Compliance.

• Identify key stakeholders and actively engage SBU in requirements gathering and be able to translate requirements into action that contributes to high levels of customer satisfaction and proactive planning while being sensitive to SBU business objectives.

• Provide SBU requirements for the creation and management of key performance indicators and other relevant metrics to support service delivery success, opportunities for improvement, and understanding of resource commitments.

• Regularly provide management level reporting and updates to demonstrate progress against expected control outcomes, challenges and agreed-upon standard service level agreements (SLAs).

• Provide SBU requirements for the development of innovative cyber solutions and drive implementation of tools, technologies, and automated processes to further enrich service delivery.

• Drive best practices and influence cyber-based changes necessary to support the assigned SBU landscape or meet changing mission requirements and performance improvement targets.

• Drive change communications between the SBU and DT Cybersecurity organizations for activity that may impact Cyber services or SBU, working to minimize risk, increase visibility and provide better situational awareness for change across the enterprise.

• Represent the Collins Aerospace CISO in cybersecurity and business-related councils or working groups as delegated.

• Act as a liaison and subject matter expert (SME) between cybersecurity and the lines of business in the development of appropriate policies, standards, and frameworks.

• Partner with Business Relationship Managers (BRMs) and other SBU/function/region-aligned DT leaders to collectively represent DT services to the business.

• Leverage RTX CORE (Customer Oriented Results and Excellence) Operating System principles to realize increased innovation and automation where practical.

Qualification You Must Have:

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 14 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 12 years experience

• One or more industry certifications (i.e. CISSP, CISM, CEH, GEVA, or similar)

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience with SaaS Product Security and Support services.

• Strong comprehension of information security practices/frameworks including identifying risks, emerging cyber security threats, and risk mitigation processes.

• Demonstrated experience across more than one cybersecurity discipline (e.g., security architecture, compliance, vulnerability management, incident response, application security).

• Demonstrated experience in team leadership and ability to lead through influence to drive creation and execution of operational plans and service delivery.

• Ability to write succinct briefings, presentations, and reports to convey analysis, trends, strategies and then use effective communication skills to present analytical data and tailor the message to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.

• Strong deductive reasoning, critical thinking, prioritization and follow through with attention to detail while seeking opportunities to innovate and excel.

• Ability to effectively lead and inspire cross-functional teams by leveraging influence, fostering collaboration and building consensus to drive cybersecurity initiatives and enhance security posture.

• Adept at understanding business strategy, planning, processes, ability to inject cybersecurity into the business through teamwork and influence.

• Able to attain and preserve credibility with the team through sustained cyber, digital and/or aerospace & defense industry knowledge.

• Adaptive to change and comfortable with navigating complex, evolving organization structures.

• Passion in working with customers and functional partners, building strong trust relationships, and championing an inclusive environment that encourages different viewpoints and ideas.

• Knowledgeable in Agile development, related concepts, and execution.

What We Offer:

Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.

Please ensure the role type defined below is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role. This position is classified as:

Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home). If you live within a reasonable commute of an RTX site with other colleagues you interact with, your manager will discuss whether there is a degree of onsite presence associated with this role.

Candidates will learn more about role type and current site status throughout the recruiting process. For onsite and hybrid roles, commuting to and from the assigned site is the employee’s personal responsibility.

As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site, hybrid or remote.

The salary range for this role is 186,200 USD - 353,800 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, 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, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.

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