Full-Time

Director of Data and AI Enablement

Director, Data and AI Enablement

Updated on 7/25/2026

RTX

RTX

10,001+ employees

Aerospace, defense, and avionics manufacturer

Compensation Overview

CA$188.7k - CA$238.7k/yr

+ Incentive programs

Remote in Canada

Remote

Remote role with occasional on-site visits near RTX sites.

Category
Engineering Management (2)
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Required Skills
MLOps
Data Science
Machine Learning
Data Engineering
Observability
Data Governance

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Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Technology or related technical field with a minimum of 14+ years of experience across data capabilities, data engineering, capability engineering, and capability operations; OR Advanced degree with a minimum of 12+ years of experience in these domains.
Responsibilities
  • Enterprise Data & AI Engineering Strategy: Set and lead the strategy for data engineering, AI engineering, and foundational data services, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and alignment to business outcomes.
  • End-to-End Data and AI Enablement Lifecycle: Ensure an end‑to‑end lifecycle from multiple raw data sources—including IoT, field data, and factory/production systems—through engineering, modeling, deployment, monitoring, and operational insight.
  • Data Architecture, Engineering, and Operational Integration: Lead global teams across data architecture, data engineering, integration engineering, and data operations. Establish and enforce standards for coding, observability, resiliency, SLIs and SLOs, incident response, and operational playbooks. Align architecture and engineering practices with governance frameworks, domain models, security standards, and capability stability requirements.
  • AI Capability Engineering, MLOps, and AI Ops: Own global AI capability capabilities including compute environments, MLOps tooling, AI operational workflows, and model hosting capabilities. Ensure AI environments meet standards for security, performance, availability, compliance, and cost optimization. Deliver reusable AI capability components that streamline model development, deployment, monitoring, and audit readiness.
  • Capability Convergence, Reusability, and Self Service Enablement: Drive global convergence of data and AI capabilities, toolsets, engineering patterns, and operational processes. Reduce fragmentation by standardizing build patterns, monitoring structures, SLAs and SLOs, and change management approaches. Deliver reusable capability components, shared services, and repeatable patterns to maximize scale and reduce duplication. Enable secure, governed self service for data, analytics, and AI so teams can build on standardized capabilities with confidence. Ensure self service capabilities adhere to export control, global trade, data residency, and regulatory requirements. Retire redundant services and consolidate capabilities for operational simplicity and efficiency.
  • Operational Excellence and Service Reliability: Own reliability, availability, observability, and security across all data and AI capabilities. Oversee global monitoring, incident management, problem management, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and lifecycle management. Implement strong operational controls including access, change management, operational readiness reviews, and compliance enforcement. Advance automation, SRE practices, and trend based operational improvements.
  • Collaboration and Business Enablement: Ensure capabilities support analytics, AI, operational workloads, transformation programs, and enterprise digital initiatives. Partner with Data Science and AI and Data Ontology and Governance to align capability capabilities with modeling, metadata, lineage, and quality needs. Support enterprise programs including SAP S4, global data products, digital transformation, engineering modernization, production systems, and sustainment operations.
  • Leadership and Organizational Development: Lead global teams of engineers, architects, SREs, capability operations professionals, and data operations specialists. Foster a culture of engineering excellence, operational discipline, innovation, and continuous improvement. Build organizational capability through workforce planning, skill development, mentoring, and global alignment. Strengthen collaboration across engineering, operations, and business teams.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience leading large global engineering and operations organizations.
  • Deep expertise in cloud-based data ecosystems such as Databricks, Snowflake, and associated integration capabilities and cloud native operations.
  • Experience owning AI capabilities, MLOps pipelines, model operations, and high performance compute environments.
  • Strong understanding of data architecture, engineering patterns, observability, operational frameworks, and capability security.
  • Proven ability to translate business strategy into technical roadmaps and deliver scalable enterprise capabilities.
  • Demonstrated influence and communication skills across technical and business leadership.
  • Track record of modernization, convergence, reliability engineering, and operational excellence.
  • Experience building high performing engineering and operations teams.

RTX designs and builds products for both civilian aviation and national defense. Its main units are Collins Aerospace (avionics, interiors, flight systems, and other aircraft technologies), Pratt & Whitney (aircraft engines and propulsion systems), and Raytheon (missiles, sensors, cybersecurity, and other defense technologies). The products work by integrating advanced propulsion, avionics, and defense systems into airplanes and military platforms to improve performance, safety, and security. RTX differs from competitors by combining a broad, integrated portfolio across commercial aviation and defense under one company, with a long history from two historic aerospace and defense groups and a strategy focused on providing end-to-end aerospace and defense solutions. Its goal is to be a leading supplier of reliable, high-performance systems and services for civil aircraft, military platforms, and national security missions.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Arlington, Virginia

Founded

2022

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What critics are saying

  • Pratt & Whitney GTF and F135 engine cracks will trigger costly replacements, eroding margins within 6-12 months.
  • Tariff-driven supply chain costs will compress Collins and Raytheon operating margins by 2-4% in 12-18 months.
  • A single catastrophic Pratt & Whitney engine failure could cause $5B+ penalties and existential certification loss.

What makes RTX unique

  • RTX uniquely spans commercial and defense aerospace with Collins, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.
  • Its $271B backlog includes three-year revenue coverage across military and commercial cycles.
  • RTX delivers 47% international revenue, outpacing pure-defense peers like Lockheed Martin in diversification.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401(k) Company Match

401(k) Retirement Plan

Flexible Work Hours

Remote Work Options

Paid Vacation

Paid Sick Leave

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

Family Planning Benefits

Fertility Treatment Support

Adoption Assistance

Employee Assistance Plan

Wellness Program

Gym Membership

Tuition Reimbursement

Student Loan Assistance

Home Office Stipend

Phone/Internet Stipend

Short-term Disability

Long-term Disability

Employee Scholar Program

Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees

Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds

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Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

7%

1 year growth

7%

2 year growth

7%
PR Newswire
Apr 14th, 2026
Air Canada's A321XLR fleet to feature Collins Aerospace Aurora suites and economy seats

Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, and Air Canada have announced that Air Canada's new Airbus A321XLR fleet will feature Collins seating throughout. Each aircraft will have 14 Aurora business class suites and 168 Meridian+ economy seats. The custom lie-flat Aurora suites, unveiled at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, are designed to provide a widebody business class experience on single-aisle aircraft. The suites' proprietary shape maximises passenger living space whilst expanding galley capacity for long-haul service. The Meridian+ economy seats incorporate widebody design principles with contoured architecture to provide additional space for passengers. Air Canada has selected enhanced seatback options for improved stowage, inflight entertainment and power supply. The first of 30 Air Canada A321XLRs will enter service this spring.

PR Newswire
Apr 13th, 2026
RTX's Raytheon unveils event-based mid-wave infrared camera for real-time high-speed threat tracking

Raytheon, an RTX business, has successfully demonstrated a first-of-its-kind event-based mid-wave infrared camera that tracks high-speed objects in real time whilst reducing processing and power demands. Unlike traditional cameras that capture full frames, the event-based camera tracks only pixel-level motion, producing a continuous stream of events. During a demonstration in Northern California, the camera tracked multiple targets including ground vehicles, aircraft and live fires by capturing rapid motion unachievable with conventional infrared cameras. By reporting only changes in motion rather than full image frames, it delivered near-instantaneous activity views. Developed under DARPA's FENCE programme, the technology has potential applications in battlefield awareness, missile guidance and surveillance. Raytheon is now exploring follow-on demonstrations across broader mission scenarios.

Yahoo Finance
Apr 4th, 2026
RTX secures $6.6B F-35 engine contract and releases open-source cyber defense toolkit

RTX has secured a multibillion-dollar contract for F135 engine production supporting the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme, whilst its subsidiary BBN Technologies released Maude-HCS, an open-source cyber defence toolkit funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The F135 award, valued at approximately $3.8 billion under one modification and referenced as a $6.6 billion package across lots 18 and 19, reinforces Pratt & Whitney's position on the F-35 programme. The Maude-HCS toolkit enables modelling and validation of covert communication networks for cyber defence efforts. RTX shares last closed at $196.21, returning 69.9% over the past year. The announcements deepen RTX's involvement in both software-centric and hardware-heavy defence missions, adding to the company's existing backlog alongside peers including Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.

PR Newswire
Apr 1st, 2026
RTX's BBN Technologies releases open-source Maude-HCS toolkit to validate covert cyber networks

RTX's BBN Technologies has released Maude-HCS, an open-source toolkit that enables cyber defence teams to model, test and validate covert communication networks. Funded by DARPA under its PWND2 program, the toolkit is now available on GitHub. Maude-HCS predicts latency, data rate and detection timelines with just 1% to 9% error compared to experimental deployments. The system replaces weeks of trial-and-error testing with automated analysis delivering results in hours, running on standard eight-core servers. Hidden communication systems are critical for national security and internet freedom, allowing journalists and armed forces to exchange information safely in high-risk environments. The toolkit enables rigorous validation of covert channels before deployment, helping ensure they remain both effective and undetectable whilst meeting mission requirements.

PR Newswire
Mar 31st, 2026
Pratt & Whitney wins $6.6B F135 engine contract to boost F-35 production

Pratt & Whitney, an RTX business, has been awarded a $6.6 billion contract for lots 18-19 of the F135 engine, which powers all F-35 Lightning II variants. The contract modification includes $3.8 billion for production, engines, spares, modules and support services. The company is investing heavily to increase production capacity, having committed over $1 billion in the past five years to expand and modernise facilities. These investments have increased current F135 production rates by 20% over previous contract rates. The F135 programme supports over 66,000 jobs across 47 US states and generated more than $9 billion in domestic economic impact in 2025. Pratt & Whitney has delivered over 1,400 production F135 engines for the F-35 programme, which serves 20 allied nations worldwide.