With over 90,000 employees worldwide, Leonardo is a global high-technology company and a key player in the international defence and security sector. Leonardo Canada – Electronics (LCE) continues to grow and expand our footprint in Ottawa. We offer a dynamic and collaborative work environment where innovation is encouraged, and employees are empowered to grow professionally. Our team supports Canadian and international customers with world-leading technologies across land, air, and naval domains.

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced, highly skilled and motivated Systems Engineer to join our growing engineering team in Ottawa to actively contribute to the ongoing delivery of the Exercise Planning Solution to support the NATO Joint Electronic Warfare Core Staff (NATO JEWCS) EW Training System.

In this role you will be responsible for providing guidance and direction to the software and systems engineering teams, leading the day-to-day delivery activities of the team with an emphasis on quality and customer satisfaction. This is a Hybrid position that will require in person support at our Ottawa office.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work within an Agile Environment as a Product Owner.
• Manage solution delivery life cycle through to Solution Acceptance;
• Convert customer requirements and product ideas to features and stories and collaborate with a scrum team of Engineers to launch features;
• Continuously improve backlog ensuring all items are clearly described, estimated and prioritized;
• Lead backlog grooming with your scrum team;
• Collaborate with external stakeholder as well as internal cross-functional teams (e.g. Project Management, Engineering, Operations, Marketing, Business Development, Capability, Finance, QA) to deliver projects;
• Research latest technologies, best practices, and online trends to provide recommendations for the team across all target platforms;
• Collaborate with Software Architect to build a modular distributed solution; and
• Maintain a strong sense of accountability and ownership of the product.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria and other Product-relevant specifications;
• Knowledge of Agile principles and how to apply them using methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and tools (Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus and Confluence);
• Working and operational knowledge/experience developing GIS solutions;
• Excellent interpersonal, written/verbal communication and customer interaction skills;
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills;
• Experience collecting and reporting project metrics to internal and external stakeholder; and
• Experience analyzing project metrics to facilitate process changes to promote efficiencies.
• Experience in a leadership or mentorship role.

Desirable Qualifications (Nice to Have):

• 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner/Business Analyst for distributed solutions;
• Knowledge of EW data types such as Emitters (radars, ECM systems/jammers, etc.), Weapons (missiles, artillery systems, etc.), Platforms (land mobile and stationary sites, surface vessels and submarines, aircraft, helicopters, UAVs and satellites), and Intercepts;
• Experience in Systems and Software Engineering in the military industry;
• Knowledge/experience with the ESRI GIS API;
• Experience delivering distributed solutions using Microservices based architectures with technologies such as (gRPC, REST, JSON Protocol buffer);
• Working and operational knowledge/experience developing and deploying microservices services solutions within docker containers;
• Working and operational knowledge/experience developing solutions deployed within a VM environment;

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering related field (or equivalent work experience).

Security Clearance:
Given the nature of our software development work, it is a condition of employment that the successful candidate receive the required security clearances. Successful candidates must be eligible for Controlled Goods Regulations Program (CGRP) government clearances and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) . In addition, candidates must be able to obtain a Canadian Industrial Security Clearance to NATO SECRET level.

If you are unfamiliar with the process, you can find information about Security Clearance requests process on the Government of Canada website (search for "Security Clearance Request Process")

In general, in order to obtain these clearances, you

• Must be either a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada;
• Must have lived in Canada continuously for the past 10 years;
• Must not have a criminal record.

Good to know:

• Group benefits are 100% Company-Paid from first day on the job (including dependents)
• Group Health, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Plan, Out-of-Province travel, E-A-P
• Employer-matched Group RRSP program
• Industry-leading Vacation entitlements
• Generous Paid Personal Leave & additional Company Holidays
• Dynamic Flex-time policy
• Remote & Office work flexibility
• Annual Incentive bonus programme
• Exceptional Employee Referral programme
• Professional Development and Credentialing support - internal and external opportunities
• Exceptional professional environment: you'll join a team of some of the best talent in the business (!)

Special needs of candidates with disabilities will be accommodated. Successful candidates must fulfil requirements for Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and Canadian Security Clearance. Leonardo supports the principles of employment equity and is an equal opportunity employer.

Please apply to this position as indicated.