Description

About our local organization: You'll be joining our Aurora Software and Electronics/Payloads Department which has ~200 Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Systems Administrators, Database Administrators, Network Engineers, and Engineering Leaders from the entry-level to the most senior chief engineers and architects to Product Owners and Scrum Masters. This engineering organization supports numerous programs across Divisions and Business Units of the NG Space Sector business. We have opportunities for career advancement into higher level technical roles or leadership positions over one’s career with us.

About the program: You’ll be joining an on-contract program that is supporting a critical national security mission that is both in development and operations. The program team is headquartered in Aurora, CO yet has some distributed team members located at several other NG sites across the US as well as at collaborating partner companies with an overall team size totaling roughly 35 people. Some of the program’s baseline and environments are unclassified allowing some work outside of our secure facilities yet still on-site and in-person. The overall team is composed of software developers organized into agile scrum teams with Product Owners and Scrum Masters. Staff in Aurora primarily work in two large rooms with cubicle-like individual spaces (rather than in dedicated offices). The program’s culture is agile, fast-paced, high performing, proactive, collaborative, and welcoming of new ideas, technologies, and tools that could benefit the mission or help the team be more productive or produce a higher quality product for the mission. The program is currently experimenting with every-other Friday being a work-from-home day if one’s work doesn’t require classified systems access at that moment.

About the job: This requisition is sourcing a Product Owner that has a prior technical background in Java software development yet is now interested in a path via the Product Owner role to further senior technical leadership roles and potentially to project or program management. After starting with at least a Top Secret Clearance, the program will request the SCI then a program Special Access (SAP) for you which will then enable a full program briefing and full access to the mission and customers ideally within about 6 months of starting. If you thrive in this kind of environment, then please apply so we can consider you.

Basic Qualifications:

• Principal (level 3): Bachelor’s degree in Science with 5+ years of software development experience; 3+ years with a Master's; or 9+ years of experience in lieu of a degree

• Sr. Principal (level 4): Bachelor’s degree in Science with 8+ years of software development experience; 5+ years with a Master's; or 12+ years of experience in lieu of a degree

• Must have active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility at time of application. Requiring TS to start.

• Ability to pass a Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI-Poly) (but not required to start)

• At least 3 years of Java Software Development experience

• At least 1 year of Agile Software Team leadership experience

• Experienced using Jira (as a developer, and in a team leadership capacity)

• Experience working proposals and writing basis-of-estimates (BOEs) for software efforts

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar

• Prior experience as a Product Owner

• Prior experience working within an Agile Release Train (larger software development effort composed of multiple scrum teams working towards common goals over Program Increments)

• Skill making Data-Driven decisions

• Ability to motivate, lead, and drive work to successful completion on time

• Desire to work as a technical leader on a fast-paced team

• Ability to effectively communicate and present to program management and customers

• Ability to effectively write technical documentation

• Ability to travel (very limited, 1 to 4 short trips per year, less than 10%)