Northstrat Incorporated

Senior Mission Systems Engineer – Technical Product Owner

Northstrat Incorporated

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Collaborate with Product Management to translate mission and business objectives into implementable technical capabilities
  • Define and evolve the functional architecture for a satellite broadband operations center
  • Develop CONOPS, operational workflows, and mission use cases
  • Conduct engineering trade studies and mission analysis to support architecture and design decisions
  • Decompose capabilities into architectural features, use cases, and user stories
  • Define clear technical requirements and acceptance criteria for agile development
  • Collaborate with project manager to maintain traceability between mission objectives, system architecture, features, and implementation artifacts
  • Refine and clarify backlog items with development teams and Product Management
  • Provide engineering insight to Product Management to support roadmap planning and capability prioritization
  • Coordinate across product, business stakeholders, UI/UX, security, and engineering
  • Clarify technical scope and resolve requirement ambiguities
  • Guide features through the engineering lifecycle from concept through implementation, validation, deployment, and operational support
  • Plan and support system validation activities including test procedure development and execution
  • Develop and maintain requirements, capability specifications, and architecture documentation
  • In collaboration with the JIRA project manager, manage the technical baseline
  • Provide technical input on progress, risks and dependencies for program status reporting and Program Management Reviews (PMRs)

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
  • Must have 8+ years of relevant experience
  • Must be a U.S. citizen
  • You must be able to demonstrate experience translating mission or business objectives into system capabilities, use cases, and technical requirements
  • Experience decomposing complex capabilities into implementable features, user stories, and acceptance criteria within an agile development environment
  • Hands-on experience applying systems engineering across the lifecycle, including architecture definition, requirements engineering, system integration, and validation
  • Experience collaborating with Product Management and cross-functional teams
  • Experience providing technical input to program or project management, including reporting on technical progress, risks, and dependencies
  • Experience collaborating with project manager and managing system requirements, maintaining traceability across architecture, requirements, and implementation artifacts
  • Strong ability to independently structure and execute loosely defined engineering tasks
Benefits
  • Northstrat values true work life balance. We offer power of choice benefits designed to best meet the needs of you and your lifestyle. Our benefits programs are designed to support and encourage wellness, healthy living, retirement investment, and lifetime learning.
  • Flex Time
  • Individual Benefits Account (IBA)
  • Profit Sharing Plan (PSP)
  • Stock Options
  • Lifelong Learning
  • Employee referral incentives
  • Equal Opportunity Employer
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
systems engineeringarchitecture definitionrequirements engineeringsystem integrationvalidationagile developmentCONOPS developmentoperational workflowsmission analysistest procedure development
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingindependent executiontechnical insightstakeholder coordinationrequirement clarificationbacklog refinementrisk managementtraceability maintenance