Systems Engineer & Technical Lead

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Maxar Intelligence is a provider of secure, precise, geospatial intelligence. We deliver disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand and navigate our changing planet. Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale and cost effectiveness. 

Maxar is seeking a systems engineer and program technical lead for our WorldView Legion Ground Program. This role is based Westminster, CO.

In this role you’ll be part of the WorldView Legion Satellite & Ground System Program team that creates the technical solutions and delivers strategic and tactical satellite ground system capability capabilities positioning Maxar for growth in the global marketplace through technical solution management and delivery.

These enterprise-scale Legion capabilities power Maxar business systems and some of our core product offerings.  The WorldView Legion Satellite & Ground System Program team drives innovation into ground systems through the build lifecycle management in partnership with executive sponsors and business units. We deliver technical solutions into both internal operations and external, customer-facing offerings, collaborating with both operational leaders and go to market teams. This role as the technical team lead provides technical leadership and program execution oversight throughout the whole initiative and project lifecycle.

In order to be successful in this role, you must be a systematic and technical solutions-focused leader who is able to ensure a scoped product or capability is enabled on schedule and within budget in a way that is compatible with or complimentary to the existing Maxar Commercial and Secure Operations ground systems. As Maxar’s systems span multiple areas of expertise, you will require extensive technical leadership, collaboration, and clear communication, both written and verbal. The scope of deliverables includes: requirements derivation, engineering and solution design, initiative and project planning/readiness, and technical oversight of the successful implementation or product roll out in the context of the WorldView Legion program.

In this role, you will also gather and manage customer business and technical requirements as part of working with market-facing team members. You will lead and collaborate closely with the program manager and project leads, architects, and other systems engineers to ensure alignment of customer requirements with development and implementation plans. You will also collaborate closely with release train functional leads (product owners and subject matter experts) to define technical work plans and dependencies. You will be responsible for technical outcome verification and facilitating an optimized transition into operations and keep end-users/operators apprised of the overall technical solution and progress. This role is heavily software-based and business-value focused with the ability to thrive in an often chaotic and fast-paced environment.

Your Career: We’re very serious about professional development and continuing education at Maxar. We offer our team members with the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has amazing resources to support learning and development. You will work with your manager, or a mentor, to set goals and design a development plan to advance your career.

Life with Us:

There is a reason we boast awards like Best Employer, Best Place to work, Top employer, candidate experience winner. Our strength is in our people. Each team member makes a unique contribution to our collective mission. So, we recognize that with best-in-class benefits like:

• robust medical, dental, vision coverage

• Career growth opportunities

• Family friendly benefits like maternity and paternity leave, adoption reimbursement, flexible hours, hybrid work options

• Program to help you grow like tuition reimbursement, hackathons, and career development

• Student loan repayment

• Generous time off

• matching and immediately vest 401K plan

Responsibilities:

• Gather and decompose business requirements into program technical requirements and tie them to program milestones in concert with business stakeholders
• Bundle proposed technical solutions into coarse-sized work packages and coordinate with agile software development teams on draft implementation schedules, sizes, and execution plans
• Participate in technical solutioning, architecture design, and integration working sessions to understand system design goals and constraints
• Collaborate with train architects to identify ICDs/APIs which require updating and what the impacts of those updates would be outside of the program
• Meet with operators, end-users, and customer representatives to refine concept of operations and derive new requirements for user touchpoints
• Identify and propose changes with scaled agile development teams to develop the requested technical features
• Lead and collaborate with enterprise and train architects to refine the high-level design into a more detailed design
• Coordinate with test and evaluation teams to align on appropriate level of end-to-end testing and customer-facing testing
• Collaborate with software development teams to write and groom features
• Identify sequencing and dependencies on/with other major initiatives/programs within Maxar
• Lead validation of end-to-end solution for business value and operations transition

Minimum Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. citizen and be willing and able to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. Four additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in systems engineering, program management/project management, and experience in Geospatial Earth intelligence/aerospace/IT systems.  Experience must demonstrate ability to deliver against key programmatic milestones and a strong understanding of Earth observation and/or intelligence enterprise-level systems and processes.
• Expertise with industry standard aerospace and ground systems engineering and software design processes
• Experience as a program technical lead in planning and technical management of a technical team.
• Software development experience using scaled agile methodologies in aerospace, aviation, IT or related technically complex industry
• Experience managing cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current/active Secret or TS/SCI security clearance
• Background in satellite ground & mission planning systems
• Knowledge of standard systems engineering processes, tools and artifacts, such as Enterprise Architect, Visio, and Block, Activity, Context & Sequence diagrams
• Experience with Agile software development practices & the various methodologies (Scaled Agile Framework preferred: SAFe, and Waterfall experience considered) and design processes
• Demonstrated proficiency in cloud-based, service-oriented architectures and distributed systems
• AWS knowledge & experience and containerization technologies such as Cloud Foundry, Docker, or Kubernetes
• Background in GIS, manufacturing, spacecraft command and control, ground systems infrastructure, or analytics
• A passion for building highly automated systems
• A good understanding of security best practices

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Our salary ranges are market-driven and set to allow for flexibility. Individual pay will be competitive based on a candidate’s unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience. The range for this position is:

$116,000.00 - $194,000.00 annually.

 

Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.

Maxar employees must follow all applicable Maxar policies and COVID-19 requirements as well as those of Maxar customers and third parties. Individual job requirements may vary, and Maxar reserves the right to modify its policies and requirements as it deems appropriate in accordance with applicable law.

Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.