Senior Systems Engineer and Product Owner

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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 immediately hiring for a Systems Engineer/Product Owner to join our Space-Ground Engineering team in Westminster, CO. This position is hybrid with in-office and from home two to three days a week.

Life with Us

Your Project: Our team within Space-Ground Engineering is responsible for defining and managing the development and deployment systems within the Space-Ground Engineering organization including: real-time command and control, data processing and distribution, data archiving, spacecraft calibration and analysis tools, ground resource scheduling, and image meta-data systems. 

We are seeking an experienced Systems Engineer, acting also as a Product Owner, to support our agile development scrum teams within the Space Engineering domain.

The successful candidate will have experience with model-based systems engineering as well as generation of traditional SE artifacts, such as Concepts of Operations, Requirements, Use Cases, and related documentation. The candidate has worked with large, complex systems, and will be expected to leverage this experience to quickly learn specific aspects of our ground system focusing on the underlying infrastructure supporting the Mission Control Systems and the tracking of Cyber Security threats to Maxar’s operations. As the product owner, this candidate will be responsible for owning features, supporting development of child user stories and their acceptance criteria, and prioritizing and maintaining their team’s backlog, while also providing technical leadership to scrum teams that keep mission development and implementation processes flowing.

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):

• Lead a scrum development team as Product Owner and Feature Owner - to include aid in facilitating agile ceremonies such as team stand-ups, sprint and quarterly planning, and feature demonstrations
• Monitor and track active cyber security threats and coordinate with neighboring development teams to plan and integrate threat mitigations
• Orchestrate the design, implementation, and maintenance of our underlying cloud and on-premises infrastructure
• Support the Agile Software Development Life Cycle process used to facilitate system baseline changes, taking ownership of those deliverables expected from the customer organization
• Ensure quality by managing system and component-level requirements providing traceability to design documentation, test cases, and operational training material
• Work directly with other Product Owners, System Engineers, Program Managers, developers, testers, and customers to define technical user stories to generate an optimal system design implementation
• Develop as-built design documents for software components
• Design, document, and maintain service APIs
• Work directly with internal software development team as well as 3rd party software vendors 
• Create system-level functional flows with an ability to frame all requirements inside those flows
• Lead development of as-built models and design documents for software components to ensure all documentation is current
• Continually learn about our evolving complex systems with particular focus on Cyber Security and Cloud Infrastructure
• Make contributions to the enterprise vision, engineering processes, and overall architecture roadmap
• Participate in design sessions with internal clients from back-end processing to user interfaces, with an emphasis on mission control and mission planning segments within the ground systems
• Manage customer expectations to ensure realistic deliverables and then exceed those expectations
• Lead design sessions across operational and support groups
• Coordinate team responses to large-scale dynamic requests

Minimum requirements for this position:

• Must be a U.S. citizen and possess, or have the ability to obtain, a U.S. Government Top Secret/SCI security clearance
• Solid understanding of cyber security principles, protocols, and technologies
• Familiar with Software as a Service and Service Oriented Architectures and the underlying infrastructures
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field. Four additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree
• Minimum of 5 years combined relevant industry experience in program management, functional management, or technical leadership
• Demonstrated success in space and defense industry, cyber security, the military, or equivalent type of commercial industry
• High proficiency in MS Office Suite including MS Project

These skills would be amazing:

• Current U.S. Government TS/SCI security clearance
• Experience with cyber security scanning tools
• Experience with JIRA issue tracking software
• Agile development and/or SCRUM experience
• Software and hardware development and integration experience
• Familiarity with requirements driven design
• Excellent cross-functional skills across multiple technical domains
• Complete and thorough understanding and experience in the complete life-cycle management of software development
• Excellent collaboration, communication (both verbal and written), and facilitation skills across a broad range of roles
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Ability to work on multiple tasks at the same time and possess a strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head off obstacles

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

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● The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $119,000.00 - $199,000.00 annually.

For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits

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.

The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.  If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. 

The date of posting can be found on Maxar’s Career page at the top of each job posting.

To apply, submit your application via Maxar’s Career page.

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.