Staff Software Engineer / Product Owner - Clearance Required
Lockheed Martin · Littleton, CO
$113,900–$200,905from the description
Jul 10, 2026
Littleton, CO
Jul 21, 2026
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A Product Owner role embedded within a Scrum team working on Command and Control ground systems — primarily software covering mission planning, communications, and data processing. Day-to-day work spans backlog prioritization, sprint goal-setting, reviewing customer requirements, and hands-on system testing and validation throughout the development lifecycle. Suits a systems engineering professional with prior Product Owner experience and an active DoD Secret clearance.
Senior level · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO · Secret clearance · Full-time
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The role is a hybrid Product Owner / Systems Engineer / Tester — it spans backlog management, systems architecture documentation, test plan development, and field validation. SOC 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) was chosen as the best fit given the breadth of systems engineering and requirements analysis duties; 15-1253 (QA Analysts and Testers) is a credible runner-up given the explicit test planning and defect validation responsibilities.
The clearance gate is stated as 'Current/Active DoD Secret Security Clearance with SCI eligibility' plus the ability to obtain SAP access. The hard gate is Secret; SCI eligibility and SAP access are additional requirements noted but the posted clearance level is listed as 'Secret'.
The compensation range ($113,900–$200,905/year) is explicitly cited for Colorado (among other states); the facility referenced is Lockheed Martin's Deer Creek facility in Littleton, CO, placing the primary CBSA as Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO.
The role is part-time remote telework (hybrid), not fully remote.
No minimum total years of experience is stated in the posting; seniority is assessed as Senior based on the scope of responsibilities (leading a Scrum team as Product Owner, field deployments, systems architecture) and the 'Experienced Professional' experience level label.
Eggplant and TWIN are listed as example test automation tools under Desired Skills; they are captured as a single skill entry with alternatives per the interchangeable-options rule.
'Use case development' and 'test scenario creation' are listed under Desired Skills and are treated as preferred.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Systems Engineering lifecycle, use case development.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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