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Maxar is looking to add an experienced Supervisor, Software Engineering to lead one of our Development teams. The role is based around one of our primary company sites either in Denver, CO, Herndon, VA, or Melbourne, FL with the opportunities for remote work. We have an amazingly talented & energetic software development team comprised of about 25 engineers. We are looking for strong leader who can provide direct mentorship for a new team and help to elevate the quality of our work. As a manager in the Development group, you will work alongside your peerswho lead our Ingest, Infrastructure, and Access team-to design and create common data access services. These services will be deployed in many ecosystems to support delivery of Geospatial Intelligence products for our customers. You should be comfortable with the following statement: "I will establish and grow a team of diverse mindsets, skills, and backgrounds. I will make difficult decisions on direction and hold the team accountable to the decisions we made mutually during planning." Your Career: We are very serious about professional development and continuing education at Maxar. We offer our team members the opportunity to define their own career trajectory and provide a high degree of autonomy. Our group has amazing resources to support learning and development. You will work with your people manger to set goals and design a development plan to advance your career. In the first year- Establish relationships with team members and external teams to understand key players or requirements for your service area.
- Come up to speed on the team's capability area, understand the technical architecture and direction of the capability.
- Work with team leadership to establish current direction and influence future direction based on your experience.
- Establish a feedback cadence and measurement criteria for everyone's growth on the team as well as the team as a whole.
- Successfully deliver production user-facing applications.
- Work with management to set your career path and goals within Maxar.
- Become an entrenched team and leader within your given service capability area.
- Drive excellence within the team by taking and providing constructive feedback on performance.
- Continue to measure the team's success and grow the team to support more broad missions.
- Coach less experienced team members and lead by example by providing continuous value through a reliable adherence to a standard Software Development Life Cycle.
- Become a trusted leader within your chosen career path.
- Influence the external direction of multiple teams or trains.
- Manage multiple teams and/or influence department direction.
- Setup your career path for the next five years.
- Define the skill sets required for a successful development team, work with management and talent acquisition to curate a team with those skills, and hold the team accountable for success.
- Hold regular review meetings with team members in order to establish career objectives and measure progress.
- Act as a conduit of information from the division and broader company to help the team understand direction or the impacts of their success.
- Establish a team that will create and design solutions for end-to-end customer facing problems; work with the team to understand the execution of those solutions through our Release Trains and Solutions Architecture.
- Incorporate customer feedback into software products - ensure the team has a deep understanding and empathy for our user's needs.
- Work with external (or curate internal) customer experience teams in order to set requirements for how users interact with the team's output.
- Work with external (or curate internal) technical excellence resources in order to set requirements for robust software built through a lean agile lifecycle.
- Provide leadership to the team to help define best practices and professional excellence; coaching team members in real-time to provide constructive feedback on outcomes.
- We work in very Lean Agile environment; you will collaborate with our geographically dispersed teams primarily via Zoom, Slack, GitLab, and shared Jira spaces.
- Conference attendance.
- Corporate partner and industry training.
- Peer group collaboration.
- Paid certifications.
- Education reimbursement.
- Student loan repayment.
- Excellent Health/Dental/Vision/401k.
- Maxar stock buy-in program.
- Must be U.S. citizen and be willing and able to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance with CI Polygraph.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related STEM field OR a degree in a management field with relevant technical experience.
- 5 years of experience managing software development teams.
- Understanding of Agile methodologies; specifically frequent, iterative releases that rely on customer feedback to refine features over time.
- Experience working with the following technologies or teams working with:
- Linux operating systems.
- Git for version control.
- Back-end languages such as C/C or JVM based languages - Java/Groovy.
- Developing full stack software solutions at scale using build frameworks such as Maven, NPM, or cmake with enterprise collaboration CI/CD tools such as GitHub or GitLab.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills across a geographically diverse team.
- Experience designing, developing, integrating, testing, and deploying software in Docker and Kubernetes environments.
- Experience with microservice architectures.
- Experience operating in AWS: EC2, EKS, S3, SQS, SNS, and Lambda.
- Familiarity with Terraform.
- Familiarity with Helm.
- Experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database.
- Experience with Maven and/or Gradle.