Lead Engineer PSD (Intermap Technologies | Engineering & Technology)

LEAD ENGINEER - PSD

Intermap Technologies is a company with the commercial capacity to meet world demand for highly-accurate, low-cost digital elevation models. These include digital surface models and digital terrain models, as well as cartographic products vital to producing accurate base maps that drive a proliferation of GIS, GPS and 3D visualization applications.

Working for governments and private industry worldwide, Intermap collects data with its airborne interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR). These systems, mounted on airborne platforms, enable the Company to map large areas accurately, quickly and in overcast or dark conditions. We generate our products in highly automated facilities in Munich; Denver, Calgary, Ottawa and Jakarta. Thanks to our new business model, NEXTMap, mapping entire countries, the company is currently in a state of rapid development while remapping the world!

Intermap is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Lead Engineer - PSD. This position is regular, full time Engineering position and based in our Engineering office in Calgary, Alberta Canada.

Job Description:
The Production Systems Department develops, deploys, maintains, and supports geospatial production systems for our main customer - Intermap’s Operations Division. Three levels of support are provided:
• Level 1 focuses on keeping the current systems up and running
• Level 2 efforts are maintenance and improvements to existing systems
• Level 3 efforts are Capital Development of new innovative production systems.
The Production Systems Department is looking for a technical lead to support Level 3 Capital Development. This position requires a person with an innate ability to understand corporate and customer needs from a “big picture” perspective and take these through system design, implementation, validation and transition to reality and production. The position also requires ongoing maintenance and support of the newly transitioned and existing systems and processes as a primary responsibility of the department.

Job Duties and Responsibilities
Primary:
• Coordinate, motivate, and lead the development team to create and build advanced mapping and geospatial production systems
• Leverage in house expertise to facilitate system architecture and design to enable the “right” technology
• Lead multiple concurrent development projects to success – within scope, budget and schedule
• Provide customer interaction leadership and diplomacy for development team – set the example
• Provide technical leadership and assist PM with project definition: scope, time, and cost baseline development to ensure project budget and schedule can be managed to within +-5%
• Lead evaluation of COTS options and third party technologies for build vs. buy decisions
• Provide leadership and technical expertise in all aspects of the engineering development cycle including: detailed requirements, architecture and design, implementation, code reviews, code standardization, unit and ATP testing, configuration management, transition, support for custom and COTS geospatial production systems
• Ensure development of accurate, consistent, and usable technical and project documents including training and process documentation
• Supervise and monitor the performance and accountability of technical development team
• Learn and become subject matter expert on new systems as well as one or more of the existing systems
• Provide periodic reporting to operations and management
• Prepare Operations report and report status of key capital development activities at weekly Ops meetings
• Provide weekly status reports and meetings with PSD department manager
• Build and maintain professional relationship within PSD, Engineering & Technology Division, and external team members
• International travel may be required

• Geomatics, Software, Electrical Engineering, physical science, or math degree or demonstrated equivalence
• Minimum 3-5 years experience in the remote sensing industry with 5-10 years in engineering field with experience in design and development of
o Object oriented and client server applications
o Web applications using Java Server Pages and Java Servlets
o Databases and database driven applications
o Data production environments
• Minimum 2 years in a team leadership role
• Understanding of airborne or space borne radar data and processing techniques, geospatial mapping processes and applications would be an asset
• Familiarity with radar data interpretation, geospatial mapping processes and applications, as well as large scale mapsheet production or equivalent experience would be an asset.
• Development experience in: Java and J2EE technologies (JSP, Beans, Servlets), C++, Oracle, SQL, PERL, Tomcat, OAS, JDeveloper,.NET, UML
• Familiarity with GIS or other COTS systems such as: PCI, ERDAS, ER Mapper, ESRI ArcGIS, MapInfo, OpenGIS standards (WMS)
• Passion to excel as a self starter and self motivated individual
o Have strong verbal and written communication and organizational skills
o Produce quality results
o Meet project schedules
o Ensure issues are followed through to completion
o Work with a team in a dynamic environment
o Work with minimal supervision
• Customer focus with strong communication skills

We offer competitive wages and benefit package, a pleasant work environment, and much more. For a comprehensive description of duties please view the job posted in the Engineering & Technology section at (http://www.intermap.com/corporate/careers.cfm).

Please include salary requirements with cover letter. For more information regarding Intermap Technologies visit: www.intermap.com