Senior Systems Engineer and Product Owner

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: