Systems Engineer and Product Owner

Maxar is currently seeking a Systems Engineer/Product Owner to join our Space Systems Engineering team in Westminster, CO.This position is in-office three days a week with the option to work from home two days per week.

Life with Us

Your Project: Our team within the Space Systems Engineering organization is responsible for defining and managing the development and deployment of software services within the Mission Control Ground System. This includes system capabilities such as: real-time command and control, imagery data processing and distribution, data archiving, spacecraft calibration and analysis tools, ground resource scheduling, and image metadata systems.

We are seeking a Systems Engineer, acting also in a Product Owner capacity, to support our Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) software development scrum teams, specifically interfacing with the internal Spacecraft Navigation, Geolocation Calibration, and Radiometric Calibration teams.

The successful candidate will have experience with model-based systems engineering as well as the 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, with a focus on navigation and calibration aspects of the spacecraft constellation. As the product owner, this candidate will be responsible for owning epics, supporting the development of child user stories and their associated acceptance criteria, and prioritizing and maintaining their team's backlog. They will also provide technical leadership to Scrum teams to ensure that mission development and implementation processes flow smoothly.

Your Career: We take professional development and continuing education at Maxar very seriously. We offer our team members the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has excellent 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 Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Epic Owner - to include facilitating agile ceremonies such as team stand-ups, sprint and quarterly planning, and feature demonstrations
• Orchestrate the design, implementation, and maintenance of the teams' ground system services
• 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
• Design, document, and maintain service APIs
• Work directly with the internal software development teams
• Create system-level functional flows with the 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 spacecraft navigation and calibration
• 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 Spacecraft Engineering and Mission Control segments within the ground system
• Manage customer expectations to ensure realistic deliverables and then exceed those expectations
• Coordinate team responses to large-scale dynamic requests

Minimum qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. citizen and possess, or have the ability to obtain, a U.S. Government Secret security clearance
• Familiar with Software as a Service and Service Oriented Architectures, and the underlying infrastructures
• Agile development and/or SCRUM experience
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field. Four additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree
• Demonstrated success in space and defense industry, cybersecurity, the military, or a similar commercial industry
• High proficiency in MS Office Suite

These skills would be amazing:

• Experience with JIRA issue tracking software
• 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 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

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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

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.