Product Security & Data Technical Lead

Job Title: Product Security & Data Technical Lead

Working Pattern: Fulltime

Working location: Indianapolis, IN (Hybrid Working)

We’re looking for a Product Security & Data Technical Lead to join the LibertyWorks team in Indianapolis.  As the Capability Manager you will be responsible for covering the scope of developing the people, processes, and tools for cyber-physical embedded systems. This includes accountability for developing engineering personnel, delivering capability improvement, and ensuring standards and regulations are adhered to.

In this role you will lead a multi-disciplinary team developing technologies and securing a range of advanced Roll-Royce Defense products against an increasingly diverse and complex range of threats.  This is an exciting opportunity where you will be encouraged to further develop and leverage your skills and experience in Systems Security Engineering and Data Science to help grow RR capability in this pivotal area.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

Rolls-Royce has been recognized as the top employer in the Engineering & Manufacturing category on the prestigious Forbes Top Employers for Engineers list for 2025. This ranking highlights our commitment to innovation, employee development, and fostering a collaborative environment where engineers can thrive.

Be part of a team that sets the industry standard and drives groundbreaking solutions.

At Rolls-Royce, we are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We foster a welcoming and innovative work environment that invests in you, giving you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

Rolls-Royce is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristics.

What you will be doing

With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:

• Lead, engage, and develop personnel to become suitably qualified and experienced to meet current and future business requirements.
• Align assigned staff to agreed work packages, provide technical leadership to the engineering resource group, and ensure compliance to process throughout the product life cycle.
• Lead and be accountable for the appropriate sections of the engineering and technology strategies; drive to completion with the support of functional leadership.
• Ensure that world class rules, tools, and methods are developed and utilized effectively across the group for the accountable domain with a focus on the greater use of automation, lean processes, digital tools, and model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to drive efficiency.
• Ensure staff are suitably qualified and experienced: that the required skills are sustainable for the future through multi-skilling, staff rotation, competency framework tools, professional networks, and standards.
• Collaborate with government, customers, suppliers, and industry experts at all classification levels to meet technological, system, and program needs and requirements.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in STEM discipline with experience in a relevant engineering environment (Electrical, Software, Controls, Systems) with 5+ years’ experience, OR
• Master’s degree in STEM discipline with experience in a relevant engineering environment (Electrical, Software, Controls, Systems), with 3+ years’ experience OR
• JD/PhD OR
• To be considered for this role, must be a U.S. citizen and hold or have the ability to obtain an active, fully adjudicated TOP SECRET clearance.

Preferred Requirements:

• Capable and experienced in engineering, leadership, performance management, building high performing teams, and effecting a positive shift in attitudes and behaviors across teams of engineers and management level personnel.
• Demonstrated sound engineering judgement and knowledge of key defense and LibertyWorks customers and programs.
• Exceptional systems thinking aptitude, interpersonal skills, and communication skills (i.e., verbal, written, and presentation for both expert and non-expert audiences).
• Knowledge of data science and embedded systems.  Possess the technical skills required to develop, implement, and secure safety critical and high integrity cyber-physical systems.
• Experience in applying systems security policies and standards in engineering and development of cyber-physical systems such as the Risk Management Framework (RMF), NIST SP 800-160, DO-326, and DoDI 5000.83.
• Experience in applying process improvement techniques and driving business improvements.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location.  It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.  As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

For fully remote roles, employees can live in any state except Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, Vermont, and Wyoming.

Relocation assistance is available for this position.

Closing date: February 26, 2026

Validation and Verification $119,520 - $194,220-Annually Indianapolis, IN

Benefits

Rolls-Royce provides a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that includes base pay and a discretionary bonus plan. Eligible employees may have the opportunity to enroll in other benefits, including health, dental, vision, disability, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; a flexible spending account; a health savings account; a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match; Employee Assistance Program; Paid Time Off; certain paid holidays; paid parental and family care leave; tuition reimbursement; and a long-term incentive plan. The options available to an employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as date of hire, employment type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.