Embedded Ground Software Engineer Leader 5

United Launch Alliance•Centennial, CO

13d•$147,813 - $274,510•Onsite

About The Position

At ULA, as an Embedded Ground Software Engineering Leader, you will lead a talented, high performing team of employees that architect, design, develop and test solutions for ULA’s development environment. You will coordinate project schedules, monitor development tasks and provide & analyze metrics to evaluate process execution and reliability. Operating in an agile environment, you will engage with Product Owners, Technology Architects, Quality Assurance and Automation team members on cross-functional activities. As a member of the Software Engineering leadership team, you will help set the direction of the organization and provide process ownership and technical leadership. You will participate in strategic activities such as proposal efforts, future planning, and developing software roadmaps. You are skilled at building strong teams and developing people. You have a passion for leading and driving changes. You are motivated by improving systems & processes and seeing reliability & user productivity increase. You naturally break down organizational silos and build partnerships. You provide leadership and clarity to create a shared vision and roadmaps to evolve the capabilities of software systems. The Ground Software (GSW) Development Leader has leadership responsibility for GSW development. The Ground Software team develops mission critical software used during launch vehicle manufacturing, preflight test, and launch countdown to prep our launch vehicles for flight. Working closely with the Software Engineering Leadership Teams, the GSW Development Leader will oversee and direct non-recurring and maintenance GSW development work scope in support of ULA contracts. The leader is directly responsible for coordinating project schedules and ensuring sufficient resources to meet milestones. The manager will monitor development tasks and products and provide and analyze metrics to evaluate process execution and product and process reliability. The GSW Development Leader will coordinate with other GSW development leaders to maintain the Identity of the GSW Function across all programs.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) or a related technical field from an accredited college or university
Experience with the Software Engineering Development Lifecycle (Requirements, Design, Implementation, Test & Release)
Experience interfacing with analysis & design disciplines
Experience with task planning, budgeting and organizational skills, which support effective project performance

Nice To Haves

Lean-Agile program (SAFe, Scrum and XP) / project management experience
Ability to coach strong, independent, agile teams to the next level of performance
Experience and ability to drive strong team culture
Ability to develop and motivate employees
Ability to engage and motivate a team to improve tools and processes
Excellent team communication skills (written and verbal)
Experience leading teams
Experience with project/program management
Effective communication, interpersonal, facilitation and organizational skills
Proven ability to lead across organizational boundaries and as part of cross-functional teams
Self-starter with effective decision-making ability and capable of working with minimal direction
Proposal for development experience
Experience working with the IV&V contractor community
Earned Value Management (in an Agile setting)
Full Software Development Lifecycle Experience in hard real-time setting
Hardware / Software integration and test experience
Cybersecurity experience for software development environments
Software Architecture (ability to guide and shape standards)
Software Coding Experience
Experience with modern software development practices & tools

Responsibilities

Personnel and Team Development. Developing and maintaining a team of expert Software Systems Integrators and Software Engineers who can establish requirements, develop and integrate software and data products and take them through testing and deployment
Responsibility in Program Execution by building agile roadmaps, plans, and milestones
Develop, implement, and communicate the economic framework including earned value
Proactively engages with other GSW leaders on the Identity of the GSW function. Shapes evolution and architecture of GSW roadmap incorporating continuous improvement and innovation. Drives process coordination and consistency while allowing experimentation within scrum teams. Matures agile best practice among product owners, scrum masters and developers. Ensures proper knowledge base, skillset and talent availability for GSW team through both hiring and career growth assignments for teammates
Exercising positive leadership over multi-discipline activities which impact or contribute to Mission Success, program cost performance, program schedule performance, program risk management, and business development success. Actively coordinate and collaborate with other functional disciplines across the program to innovatively resolve technical and programmatic risks, issues and challenges
Reinforce Agile principles. Participate in and guide agile ceremonies
Build partnerships with Customers, Suppliers, Consultants, Partners, and Internal/External Stakeholders
Working with minimal direction and having strong facilitation and people skills
Interfacing with and leading teams that may include diverse internal teams and external stakeholders
Managing the deployment of scalable software development processes and tools
Execution of the Launch Vehicle Software Development Plan
GSW development that is compliant with Cybersecurity requirements