Job
- Level
- Senior
- Location
- Betzdorf
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Job Field
- IT, Software, DevOps
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Salary
- 121.000 to 190.000€ gross/year
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop comprehensive test campaigns and procedures to verify complex systems, coordinate technical activities, and conduct analyses and assessments to ensure mission readiness.
Your role in the team
- The System Integration & Test (SI&T) Mission Test Lead is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for developing and delivering mission-test capabilities across a complex system-of-systems environment spanning spacecraft, ground systems, user terminals, communications networks, software platforms, operational processes, and supporting infrastructure.
- Working within the SI&T function, you will develop campaign plans, test procedures, readiness criteria, technical analyses, and evidence packages to verify mission objectives and demonstrate operational readiness.
- Leading through technical expertise and influence, you will coordinate engineering, operations, suppliers, and program stakeholders to deliver successful mission-test campaigns.
- The role supports ongoing Pathfinder activities while preparing future campaigns, leading rehearsals, readiness reviews, delegated mission-test execution, anomaly and retest coordination, and evidence closeout.
- While providing mission-test leadership during execution, spacecraft command authority and flight operations decisions remain with the designated flight authorities and operational organizations.
- Lead system integration, testing, verification, and validation work across hardware, software, networks, operations, laboratories, suppliers, and distributed teams.
- Turn incomplete or conflicting inputs into clear, practical technical plans with visible assumptions, dependencies, risks, and evidence needs.
- Apply discipline across requirements, interfaces, configuration control, readiness, anomalies, regression, traceability, and evidence.
- Produce clear, decision-ready technical recommendations and communicate effectively with engineering, program, supplier, and executive stakeholders.
- Define and lead System Integration & Test work while respecting retained authorities in product, facility, safety, flight, requirements, procurement, and acceptance decisions.
- Lead the development, planning, and execution of mission-test campaigns, translating mission objectives into executable event sequences, procedures, readiness criteria, and evidence requirements.
- Develop campaign strategies, technical solutions, and test approaches supporting concurrent Pathfinder and future mission-test activities.
- Define test success criteria, including entry and exit criteria, pass/fail measures, data collection requirements, abort conditions, and recovery approaches.
- Lead campaign rehearsals, technical reviews, and readiness assessments to ensure stakeholders, systems, procedures, and environments are prepared for execution.
- Coordinate anomaly investigation, retest planning, and technical resolution activities, providing recommendations based on evidence and test outcomes.
- Leiten Sie die delegierten Aktivitäten zur Durchführung von Mission-Tests gemäß genehmigten Verfahren und Governance-Rahmenwerken, wobei Sie die behaltenen Befugnisse für Flug- und Raumfahrzeugbefehle respektieren.
- Maintain end-to-end test traceability, ensuring evidence, decisions, actions, and outcomes are captured, reviewed, and closed out appropriately.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Aerospace, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Qualifications
- Nachgewiesene technische Führungsqualitäten, einschließlich Planung und Durchführung komplexer Testkampagnen sowie Koordination interdisziplinärer Teams.
- Strong understanding of requirements management, system interfaces, configuration control, readiness reviews, anomaly resolution, technical risk management, and evidence-based decision-making.
- Excellent technical writing, facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and executive communication skills.
- Vertrautheit mit Systemtechnikpraktiken, Testautomatisierung, Hardware-in-the-Loop-Umgebungen, Simulatoren, Digital Twins und Testmanagement-Tools.
- Ownership: Takes accountability for outcomes, drives issues to resolution, and balances speed, risk, and quality to deliver results.
- Systems Thinking: Understands how hardware, software, networks, operations, suppliers, and processes interact; always considers the full impact of decisions.
- Evidence Driven: Uses objective data, testing, and measurable results to guide decisions, assess risk, and build confidence in system readiness.
- Technical Leadership Through Influence: Builds alignment across teams and stakeholders through expertise, credibility, and sound judgment rather than formal authority.
- Collaborative & Low Ego: Values diverse perspectives, welcomes constructive challenge, and works across disciplines to achieve the best outcome for the system and the business.
- The candidate must be eligible for a "SECRET" security clearance, in accordance with the national regulations as well as EU/ESA/NATO equivalents.
- Willing to work 60% onsite from office.
- Reisen Sie bei Bedarf für die Projektumsetzung.
Experience
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in test engineering, system integration, verification and validation, mission operations, flight testing, or other complex system test environments.
- Experience in space systems, satellite communications, ground systems, mission operations, telecommunications, or other mission-critical engineering programs.
- Experience supporting flight-test, launch, satellite operations, FlatSat, field-test, or similar high-consequence test and operational environments is highly desirable.
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What we offer
- The USA salary range for this full-time position is $121,000 - $190,000.
- Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and geographic location.
- Individual compensation within the range is determined based on work location and a variety of factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and relevant education or training.
- Additional compensation and benefits may apply depending on the location and terms of employment.
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Benefits
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About Your Employer
SES
As the world's leading provider of digital price tags, the SES-imagotag Group supports leading retailers worldwide in digitizing their processes. 200 retail chains in more than 60 countries trust our 370 specialists for their digital solution expertise.
Description
- Company Size
- 1-49 Employees
- Language
- English
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Senior Architect, Mission Test & Pathfinder Integration
- Salary
- 121.000 to 190.000€ gross/yearEstimated net salary based on the gross salary in the job ad using tax class I.69.075 to 107.128 € net/year · Tax class I
- Location
- Betzdorf
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
