Pr025-026 Product Owner

QTEC Aerospace is seeking a PRODUCT OWNER to join our team of professionals in Huntsville AL. The qualified applicant will become part of a team of professionals supporting a large Missile Defense Development Program. The successful candidate will be a team leader detail oriented have a proven track record and a positive work ethic.

Job Summary

QTEC Aerospace is looking for highly capable and motivated individuals. The candidate will serve as one of the Product Team Product Owners on the Missile Defense Program Fire Control System. The Product Owner role will require the selected individual to spend 80% of their time performing software development and the remaining 20% of their time performing product owner responsibilities. Therefore the selected candidate will require recent software development experience with a math/physics background. Occasional travel may be required.

Minimum Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree in a Science Technology Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and at least 8 years of related experience or a Masters degree with 6 years of related experience or 4 years with a PhD not to exceed 14 years

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Recent and extensive Experience Developing Software in Ada or C or Java
• Willingness to become highly proficient with Ada software development
• Experience leading a technical team of 5 or more employees
• Strong technical presentation skills
• Experience estimating planning and scheduling software development work for a technical team
• Eager to learn and absorb new concepts and information
• Must have an Interim or Active Secret Clearance
• Unix/Linux Operating System Experience
• Must be able to support an in-person / closed-area work environment
• Experience with Agile Project Management tools (Jira/Confluence) and DevSecOps tools and methods (Jenkins Ansible Git/Gitlab) of continuous integration/continuous delivery and deployment (CI/CD) automation
• Proven experience understanding complex algorithms and implementing them in software
• Proven team player willing to understand multiple aspects of the project
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and prepare and brief presentations to the customer as needed
• Self-motivated and customer-oriented

Desired Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• MDA and Missile Defense Systems experience and knowledge strongly desired
• Recent MATLAB and Python Experience
• Highly experienced with Linux scripting and operations
• Experience with the MDA GMD program.
• Very solid background in math and physics
• Advanced degree in Mathematics or Physics
• Math Skills: Linear Algebra Statistics Algorithms
  • Can be from course work or work experience
• Physics Skills: Astro or Orbital mechanics
  • Can be from course work or work experience
• Experience with optimization algorithms
• Experience with planning / scheduling algorithms
• Experience with sensor modeling communication modelling and / or missile modelling
• Battle Management or Fire Control experience

Security Clearance

Candidates must currently have and be able to maintain a minimum DoD SECRET level security clearance.

QTEC Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and advancement in employment without regard to any applicable local state or federally protected class characteristic or non-merit based factor.