Sr. Staff Systems Engineer
Maxar Technologies2 months ago
Westminster, CO, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$128k - $187k/yr
Responsibilities
- Translate business needs into functional and non-functional technical requirements with stakeholders, product management, and software engineering teams.
- Develop end-to-end software solution designs and document current-state and target-state architectures.
- Identify cross-team dependencies, technical risks, and architectural impacts across software domains.
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, scalability objectives, and engineering practices.
- Lead requirements analysis and use case definition and produce interface control, ConOps, and test-plan documentation.
- Provide technical direction to software engineering teams implementing complex capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
- At least 5 years of experience in systems engineering, software engineering, solution engineering, or software architecture.
- Experience leading requirements analysis and use case definition and producing interface control documentation, ConOps documentation, and test plans.
- Experience translating business requirements into detailed technical requirements for Agile software development teams.
- Experience developing software system designs and architecture documentation.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, system integration, APIs, and modern software development practices.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and technical documentation skills.
- Preferred: experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, distributed systems, DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Jira, Confluence, or similar tools.
- Preferred: INCOSE, SAFe, AWS, Azure, GCP, or other relevant technical certifications.
- Must be a U.S. Person as defined by the posting's export-control eligibility requirements.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package including a 401(k) with company match.
- Mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
- Position is incentive eligible based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results.
- The position is posted for three days from the posting date and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.
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About Maxar Technologies
Maxar Technologies builds and operates commercial Earth‑observation satellites and sells high‑resolution imagery, 3D products, and geospatial analytics to government, defense, and enterprise customers. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, the company was formed in 2017 from the merger of DigitalGlobe and MDA and was acquired by Advent International in 2023; it supplies data for national security, mapping, and disaster response, and licenses imagery through subscription and platform APIs.