Software Engineering Manager

Description: Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more — we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.

At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.

Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you.

Responsibilities

• Directly and indirectly support the execution of classified and unclassified programs via a combination of direct program work and indirect staffing support, engineering planning, workforce management, and organizational strategy
• Manage a team of roughly 15-18 engineers
• Have direct cost, execution, and schedule oversight for project/program budgets
• Lead, drive, and energize a team of multiple skills and job disciplines across multiple programs & business pursuits
• Adapt to agile management methods that will require a dynamic staffing approach, depending on the time-phased needs of the program
• Deliver on Functional Management tasks related to personnel such as: career development, salary planning, training, employee development, succession planning, and the execution of strategic staffing initiatives

Agile Leader Duties

• Product ownership/management
• Cost account management
• Release management
• Escalation and removal of team impediments
• Management of risk and the drive for continuous improvement

Basic Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in full lifecycle of Software Engineering or Systems Engineering for software intensive projects
• Demonstrated experience and understanding managing software and systems engineering efforts using Agile methods, processes, and practices
• Recent formal leadership experience (within the last year)
• Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance

Desired Skills

• Ability to adapt, teach, mentor, and guide Individual Contributors
• Full Spectrum Leadership behavior, attitude, and perspective
• Experience supporting geographically dispersed team
• Strong Interpersonal Skills
• Experience in delivery of systems and/or software releases to customers
• Experience leading and contributing to software systems using modern practices, tools, technologies, and languages
• Proposal and BOE experience
• Recent Experience as Product Owner, Scrum Master, and/or Release Train Engineer
• Experience Interviewing and Building Teams
• Agile certifications (e.g. Product Owner, Scrum Master, SAFe, etc.)

Security Clearance

This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US citizen for consideration.

Clearance Level: TS/SCI

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.

Experience Level: Experienced Professional

Business Unit: SPACE

Relocation Available: Possible

Career Area: Management

Type: Full-Time

Shift: First