Program Technical Lead

Your Career: We are 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. 

What you'll do day-to-day (with your colleagues): 

• Provide cross functional technical leadership in preparation for launch and operations of the WorldView Legion Earth Imaging Constellation 

• Create gap and delta analyses from initial launch to ensure efficient and timely technical path to subsequent launches 

• Support the Agile Software Development Life Cycle process used to facilitate system baseline changes 

• Oversee the management of system level requirements and traceability to design documentation, test cases, and operational training material 

• Work directly with feature owners, other systems engineers, program managers, developers, testers, spacecraft sub-system engineers, and operational customers to ensure launch readiness 

• Create system-level functional flows as needed with an ability to frame all requirements inside those flows 

• Continually learn about our evolving complex ground system with a particular focus on spacecraft to ground interfaces 

• Make contributions to the enterprise vision, engineering processes, and overall architecture roadmap 

• Lead launch readiness sessions with cross functional space and ground stakeholders 

• Manage internal client expectations to ensure realistic deliverables and then exceed those expectations. 

• Lead the troubleshooting cross domains to ensure end-to-end data flows are ready to support launch and early operations 

• Coordinate team responses to large scale dynamic requests 

• Mentor other Systems Engineers and build rapport with other collaborators such as spacecraft engineers and component software developers 

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: 

• 401K matching and immediate vesting schedule 

• Career growth opportunities  

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

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

• Student loan repayment 

• Generous time off 

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision at affordable monthly rates 

Minimum requirements for this position: 

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

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, computer science, geographic information systems, business, or a related field. Four additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree 

• Minimum of 5 years of systems engineering and operations experience with a thorough understanding of the systems engineering domain 

• Experience in spacecraft or mission planning operations or related engineering 

• Software development experience  

• Applied knowledge of Agile development principles and best practices 

• Ability to critique engineering designs and provide feedback 

• Strong listening, written and oral communication skills 

• Strong sense of self-motivation and engagement around the details of the system design and operability 

These skills would be amazing: 

• Eagerness to continually learn 

• Active U.S. Government security clearance 

• Experienced with Model-Based System Engineering practices, SysML, modeling system state transitions, data flows, etc., and working with Enterprise Architect or similar framework 

• Experience with complex ground systems as they relate to satellite launch and early operations 

• General knowledge of spacecraft subsystems 

• Full knowledge of multiple development methodologies (Waterfall, Spiral, Scrum/Agile) 

• Service Oriented Architecture experience 

• Strong mentorship skills with a desire to professionally develop others 

• Experience and enthusiasm around leading innovation exercises such as Hack-A-Thons to determine optimal paths toward implementation of complex feature designs 

• Impressive multi-tasking abilities 

• Ability to identify and resolve project issues independently 

• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills