Systems Engineer Architect
Maxar Technologies2 days ago
Westminster, CO, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$122k - $196k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and delivery of complex, cross-domain software systems.
- Define system architecture, integration strategy, interfaces, system boundaries, and technical direction across multiple engineering teams.
- Translate ambiguous customer, mission, and business problems into scalable technical solutions.
- Lead architecture trade studies and make consequential technical decisions across competing priorities.
- Drive system decomposition, dependency management, integration planning, validation, operational readiness, and customer adoption.
- Identify and mitigate architectural, integration, operational, and delivery risks before they affect execution.
- Shape technical direction across a product portfolio or strategic technical domain.
- Influence engineering organizations through technical credibility rather than reporting authority.
- Improve architecture, engineering practices, technical standards, and technical leadership through mentoring and organizational influence.
- Use AI-assisted development and agentic engineering workflows to scale systems engineering and accelerate architecture, analysis, and design.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience solving complex software systems problems.
- Typically requires 15 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, 10 years with a master’s degree, 8 years with a PhD, or equivalent experience.
- Significant experience architecting and delivering large-scale, software-intensive systems.
- Demonstrated success leading major cross-functional or cross-domain technical initiatives.
- Deep understanding of modern software architecture and distributed systems.
- Experience leading architecture reviews, technical trade studies, and consequential design decisions.
- Experience defining system boundaries, interfaces, integration strategies, and validation approaches.
- Strong understanding of software development, integration, deployment, and operational readiness.
- Ability to communicate with software engineers, architects, product leaders, customers, senior leaders, and executives.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and create alignment across multiple teams.
- Preferred experience includes cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, distributed data systems, event-driven architectures, AI-assisted software development, agentic engineering workflows, high-availability or mission-critical platforms, geospatial or aerospace systems, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, systems-of-systems integration, developer platforms, platform engineering, internal engineering infrastructure, and sovereign, on-premises, disconnected, or hybrid deployments.
- Must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee, because certain work may be subject to U.S. export control laws.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package including a 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
- The position is incentive eligible, with the target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results.
- The application window is three days from the posting date and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.
- The role is subject to U.S. Person eligibility requirements and potential U.S. export-control restrictions.
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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.