Sr Manager Engineering - Mapping

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Mapping Engineering Sr. Manager Job Posting
Maxar is currently seeking an experienced leader for the Accuracy Engineering team based in Westminster, CO. This role can also be performed remotely. This is an accuracy and interoperability engineering team responsible for the successful execution of scaling the development of tools and services to support image accuracy improvement, image interoperability (co-alignment), and artifacts that support consistent image formation. These tools, techniques and services maintain Maxar's superiority in satellite image quality.
This is an exciting opportunity to work at the nexus of cutting edge geospatial and photogrammetric technologies and software engineering on AWS cloud platforms. Our focus is on building foundational imagery formation tools so that we can provide the most utility with Maxar's satellite imagery as well as others. We are service owners of technologies that co-align imagery to different reference datums. In this role, you will lead the team developing these capabilities and have the opportunity to shape the tools and systems that enable them, through innovation, technical contributions, and technical leadership. This position also offers the opportunity for career growth and to make a major impact across multiple dimensions, from team and people leadership to technical expertise and new product development.
Life with Us
Your Project: The Software Engineering Manager is an experienced leader who can advocate for the team, customer and business. They are an effective communicator who works with teams to create products which solve globally important problems. In this role, you will be responsible for managing our agile software engineering teams as well as team members that are subject matter experts in geospatial and photogrammetric disciplines. If you have a passion for hands-on management and working with experts of their field, this is a great opportunity. Your roles will also include cross-team collaborations with emphasis on working closely with our Product team. This leader will be responsible for finding and growing talent in support of our mission and making sure team members have the right mix of technical and interpersonal skills to work collaboratively on some of our hardest problems.
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.
What We Offer: Time for dedicated professional development, conference attendance, corporate partner and industry training, peer group collaboration, hackathons, as well as paid certifications, education
reimbursement and student loan forgiveness.
What you'll do day-to-day (with your colleagues):

• Manage the high-level allocation of resources to new feature development, balancing that against the paying down historical technical debt. Knowledge to make these decisions is gained by participating in daily operational standups to review system issues, on-going discussions with architects, etc.
• Risk mitigation within team via knowledge and task cross training, etc.
• Participate in staff recruitment, performance assessment, salary, training, career development and recognition/disciplinary actions.
• Coordinate vendor contracts, deliveries, and schedule with affected company parties.
• Continue refinement of the software development methodologies and tools by the organization.
• Work with the team to ensure the stories and tasks are aligned with the features we are trying to build
• Work with our product team to understand product requirements
• Groom backlog
• Monitor AWS costs and system health
• Facilitate and participate in design, requirement, and systems documentation
• Immerse yourself in the tools and systems built by your teams

Minimum requirements for this position:

• Must be a US citizen and be willing and able to obtain a Secret security clearance or higher
• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline (Computer Science preferably). 4 years of additional experience may be substituted for a degree.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in leading teams and people management
• Familiarity programming or leading geospatial teams.
• Familiarity with a range of software development methodologies (i.e. waterfall, iterative, agile, scrum).
• Strong management, analytical, and written/oral communication skills.

These skills would be amazing:

• 5 years of software engineering management experience, preferably in organizations using agile team-based practices.
• Strong sense of self-motivation is essential - must be willing to be actively involved in the details of the system design and operability
• Successful at multi-tasking and able to simultaneously handle multiple priorities
• Able to identify and resolve project issues independently
• Has strong teamwork and collaborative skills
• Program and project management experience.
• Knowledge of micro service based large-scale systems.
• Working knowledge of AWS or comparable cloud technologies
• C++ or Python programing expertise
• Geodesic and/or photogrammetric expertise

In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.
• The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $120,000.00 - $200,000.00 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.
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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.