Senior Systems Engineer - Software & Architecture Lead

MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; Westminster (CO); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor is seeking a Systems Engineer – Software Engineering in Colorado to partner with product management, stakeholders, and software development teams to translate business needs into actionable technical requirements and deliver scalable solutions.

You will lead the design of current-state and target-state architectures, ensure alignment with security and SDLC practices, and provide technical direction to teams throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product management, and software engineering teams to translate business needs into clear, actionable functional and non-functional technical requirements.
• Develop end-to-end software solution designs, define and document current-state and target-state architectures, and identify the changes required to achieve future capabilities.
• Identify cross-team dependencies, technical risks, and architectural impacts across multiple software domains.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, scalability objectives, and engineering best practices.

Skills

Requirements analysis

Technical documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Vantor is seeking a Systems Engineer – Software Engineering in Colorado to partner with product management, stakeholders, and software development teams to translate business needs into actionable technical requirements and deliver scalable solutions.

You will lead the design of current-state and target-state architectures, ensure alignment with security and SDLC practices, and provide technical direction to teams throughout the project lifecycle.