Staff MTS - Engineering Governance

In the first 6 to 12 months, assess current Technical Lead and Team Lead capability, identify training and learning gaps, and develop a practical plan to address those gaps through targeted learning, coaching, forums, and shared resources.

Develop recommendations, tools, templates, and guidance that make it easier for Technical Leads and Team Leads to plan technical work, manage risks and issues, understand when to escalate, and engage effectively with Project Managers.

Lead the implementation of governance improvements in a way that is practical, collaborative, and sensitive to project delivery realities, ensuring changes are communicated clearly and adopted sustainably.

Measure and track the effectiveness of governance improvements using defined metrics and feedback from the Technical Lead community.

Partner closely with Project Managers, Technical Leads, and Team Leads to strengthen the way technical leadership is paired with project leadership and aligned to project objectives, delivery rhythms, risk management, issue resolution, and escalation pathways.

Build and facilitate a collaborative Technical Lead and Team Lead community of practice that creates space for shared learning, problem solving, peer support, lessons learned, and consistent technical leadership behaviours across projects.

Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Quality, and the broader Engineering Governance team to ensure technical leadership governance enables project delivery while strengthening technical discipline, transparency, and accountability.

Lead the overall training and capability-building approach for Technical Leads and Team Leads.

This may include delivering training directly, bringing in external learning resources, coordinating subject matter experts, facilitating peer learning, or creating practical guidance and onboarding materials.

Grow and sustain the community by establishing recurring forums, onboarding support, coaching opportunities, mentoring connections, and learning pathways that help people build confidence and capability in technical leadership roles.

Define clear expectations and success criteria for Technical Leads and Team Leads related to technical execution, community contribution, engagement, risk ownership, task planning, issue management, collaboration with Project Managers, and timely escalation.

Provide transparent governance insight and trend data to support leadership understanding of community maturity, contribution levels, engagement, execution effectiveness, and areas requiring additional support or intervention.

Assess Technical Lead and Team Lead contribution and engagement using defined, transparent criteria, with the goal of recognizing strengths, identifying support needs, and guiding development conversations that improve community effectiveness and project execution.

Support onboarding, professional development, and capability planning for the Technical Lead and Team Lead community, helping create a clear path for people who want to grow into or strengthen technical leadership roles.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline (advanced degree is an asset).
• 10+ years of experience in a safety-critical, mission-critical, complex engineering, or technical project environment.

in aerospace, defense, space systems, regulated software, systems engineering, project engineering, operations excellence, or technical program delivery is an asset.

• Credibility in technical execution or technical leadership, with an understanding of how Technical Leads plan work, manage risk, resolve issues, partner with Project Managers, and know when to escalate.
• Demonstrated experience building governance practices, metrics, tools, training plans, or communities of practice that improve consistency, visibility, engagement, and shared learning across projects or teams.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate across functions, levels, and disciplines.
• Experience working collaboratively with Project Managers, Technical Leads, Team Leads, Engineering, Operations, Quality, and other stakeholders to enable successful project delivery without relying solely on formal authority.
• Experience leading training, coaching, mentoring, capability development, or community-building activities for technical or project delivery professionals.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and training skills.
• We encourage candidates with diverse technical, operational, project delivery, governance, and leadership backgrounds to apply. If you meet many, but not all, of the qualifications and are excited about building an inclusive technical leadership community, we welcome your application.

Successful candidates must obtain and hold security clearance at the

Reliability level

, and pass security assessment for the

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We’re a dream team of purpose-driven, collaborative and passionate people, and we are constantly looking for others to join #TeamMDA to ignite new and innovative approaches to problem-solving that push us forward to improve life on and above Earth.

If you’re excited to expand our place in space and driven to inspire the next generation, we’ll take you there.

We have entered a new era of exploration and development, and MDA welcomes all who yearn to suit up and be part of it.

An equal opportunity employer prizing diversity, integrity and collaboration, we are committed to growing MDA’s and Canada’s leadership in this next golden age.

MDA provides competitive compensation and benefits packages for its employees at all locations. As a team member of MDA, you and your qualified dependents are eligible to participate in a benefit plan that ensures a comprehensive level of protection through competitive health care including; extended healthcare and flexible drug plans, dental and vision benefits, disability income protection, life insurance, group retirement savings plans; and an employee and family assistance program.

MDA is proud to provide accommodation(s) during the recruitment process.

Should you require any accommodations, please indicate this on your application/cover letter and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

The compensation range for this position is CAD 130,000 - CAD 185,000 annually.

The specific compensation offered will be based on the qualifications and experience of the successful candidate.

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