We are looking for a System Architect to join our team who will work on both our current missions and future projects.

The successful candidate will act as the technical authority for the mission and will ultimately be responsible for its technical success. We are looking for an experienced, confident leader who has held a senior position before and displays a strong balance of technical acumen, management skills and stakeholder management skills. The successful candidate must have a high level of expertise in all aspects of spacecraft engineering, design, and operations.

Key responsibilities

• Leading technical teams to successfully deliver end-to-end mission development activities including Space, Ground, Launch Segments and in-orbit operations.

• Manage technical schedule on a day-to-day basis ensuring on time delivery of all elements necessary to achieve the program schedule.

• Manage technical baseline, ensuring impact assessment of changes and non-conformances across the system

• Responsibility for technical risk register and cost

• Identifying, analysing, and deriving technical, programmatic, and business requirements, constraints and assumptions impacting missions.

• Defining and analysing overall mission architectures.

• Coordinating the activities of a wide range of domain experts to successfully deliver full mission developments.

• Defining and coordinating the specific engineering support activities at system level for all aspects of the spacecraft. Monitor and control the interfaces between the sub-systems and Spacecraft-Launch vehicle/Spacecraft-Ground Segment interfaces

• Coordinating the engineering activities for the Ground Segment and operations ensuring design and development compatible with the spacecraft and mission

• Defining and co-ordinating a design development and verification philosophy for the system and implementation of the plan ensuring coherency between areas

• Leading interactions with customers, partners, and subcontractors

• Monitor and control the technical work of subcontractors and team relating design, development, production and assembly integration and test (AIT) at subsystem and system levels to ensure that the agreed Contractual Requirements are met

• Provide support and expertise to anomaly and failure reviews at all levels (equipment, sub-system/system and in-orbit), and develop solutions/resolutions to the problems

• Coordinate the support to design reviews and evaluate declared compliance versus system level requirements. Closely monitor and control all system level budgets and establish and maintain up to date versions of the budgets and analyses

• Provide support to in-orbit operations including LEOP and IOT

• Support Spacecraft Program Manager in negotiations of technical aspects of spacecraft and launcher contract

• Support the definition of strategic direction

• Support proposal writing for future business

Nice to have

• MSc Degree in Aerospace, Engineering, Mechatronics, Physics or similar
• A team player, willing to get stuck in and collaborate wherever is needed.
• Agile, flexible and able to work across a geographically-distributed teams
• A great communicator