Manager, Ground Software

Company Overview

Iridium is an award-winning and innovative satellite communications company with bragging rights to the only network that offers voice and data connectivity anywhere in the world. For over 20 years, Iridium's unique network and services have supported critical communications needs for individuals, businesses, and the evolving Internet of Things.

At Iridium, we understand the importance of staying connected and the limitations of traditional communications networks. People across the globe, including first responders, humanitarians, global militaries, scientific researchers, and lone workers, as well as ships, aircraft and remote operations all rely on Iridium to stay connected. We take our responsibility for providing these essential communications very seriously and pride ourselves on offering a reliable lifeline when needed. Likewise, Iridium is committed to providing an exciting and innovative workplace, where employees are challenged to think outside the box and collaborate on new, bold ideas and solutions. Our talented teams are passionate about their work and the impact our company makes around the world. Iridium fosters an empowering and inclusive culture that allows employees to genuinely be their best selves. We are looking for others who want to join this truly unique company that celebrates our employees and provides the opportunity to truly make a difference in the world.

Position Summary, Job Requirements & Responsibilities

What We're Looking For:

If you enjoy working with breakthrough technologies, and are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then you will be excited about the Manager, Ground Software opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. In this role, you will apply advanced expertise in cutting edge technologies to lead a team of SW engineers to rapidly develop, deploy, and sustain ground system operations and user service capabilities within a satellite operations environment. Specifically, you will be tasked with developing the mission planning and scheduling, and flight dynamics components of the ground system.

What You'll Do:

• Work independently to develop and enhance software related to mission planning, network management, and flight dynamics
• Develop optimized code for both scalability and performance
• Foster and develop a highly effective team software engineers to develop and sustain mission planning and scheduling, and flight dynamics components for the SDA mission
• Mentor and train your team by performing regular check-ins, discussing career growth opportunities, giving constructive feedback, and managing conflict when necessary
• Work within the Agile/Scrum framework for software development (Atlassian tool suite desired)
• Play a key role in planning and executing software releases per stakeholder/program schedules and budgets
• Edit, structure and present data, concepts and arguments clearly and succinctly, through briefings and documentation
• Collaborate with other leaders within the Iridium SDA team to maintain and improve the software development processes and practices

Experience & Education Requirements / EEO

What You'll Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science or related field
• 8+ years of experience in software development
• Previous management experience
• Experience with agile practices, especially Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Basic understanding of mission planning, data routing and data management concepts, and/or flight dynamics
• Capable of being a strong motivator and source of direction for your team and role modelling commitment to your team's goals
• Have a team-oriented mentality and be able to easily build meaningful relationships with others and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues to groups outside of your team or those who are unfamiliar with the topic
• Be able to analyze and understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions and come up with new and unique solutions
• Be self-motivated and possess a high degree of creativity, independence, and resourcefulness
• Have a strong sense of urgency in driving projects to completion and be motivated to achieve outcomes and results
• Can thrive in a dynamic environment and efficiently manage multiple projects for yourself and your team while making sure to meet deadlines

Things That Would be Great if You Brought to the Table :

• An active/current Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)
• Experience with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS), including experience as a Control Account Manager (CAM)
• Experience with the following technologies:
  • Python / Perl / C++/ Matlab
  • Kubernetes / Docker / OpenShift
  • JFrog Artifactory and Pipelining
  • Linux based environments and bash shell scripting
  • XML / JSON / SQL
  • No SQL based DBs (e.g., Mongo)
  • js / Apache Web Server
  • RESTful / HTTP / ELK or similar / WebSockets
  • Atlassian management/software development tools: Jira / Git / Bitbucket / Crucible / Confluence and/or Gitlab
  • Micro services architectures

We'll also need you to:

• Be a U.S. Citizen

Work Environment:

This position primarily works in the company office or in a home office. The position is largely sedentary with the majority of the position sitting in a chair and working with a computer. The role uses basic office equipment including a phone, video, computer, keyboard, mouse, and printer.

Iridium is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or status as a protected veteran. EOE of Minorities/Females/Vets/Disability and other protected categories.