Engineering Manager - EU Communication Gateway, Ground Segment

This role is critical to ensuring that the system is technically coherent, verifiable, and ready for acceptance in a high-complexity, multi-partner delivery environment.
 
In this role, you will lead the full engineering delivery for SSC’s contribution to IRIS² as prime contractor. You will act as the overall technical authority, owning the engineering baseline and ensuring the integrated system is coherent, compliant, secure, and deliverable across a multi-disciplinary ground segment.
 
You operate with end-to-end engineering authority within programme governance, driving and owning technical decision-making, trade-offs, and cross-discipline alignment across the programme. You will resolve conflicts, steer technical direction, and ensure delivery readiness at every major milestone.
 
You will operate at programme leadership level, engaging senior stakeholders across SSC, partners, and customer organisations.
 
 This role is for you if you:

•  Have led large, multi-disciplinary engineering delivery in complex system environments
•  Thrive in integrating multiple engineering domains into a coherent solution
•  Are comfortable making and owning high-impact technical decisions
•  Bring experience from ESA, ECSS, or similarly governed environments
•  Can lead teams and suppliers under demanding timelines and technical complexity

 

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the engineering baseline, ensuring technical integrity, consistency, and delivery readiness
• Lead and scale the integrated engineering organisation across all relevant disciplines
• Drive and own technical governance, decision-making, trade-offs, and cross-discipline alignment
• Ensure alignment between engineering, programme schedule, cost, and subcontractor delivery
• Lead verification, validation, qualification, and review readiness across the lifecycle
• Own the technical integration of subcontractor deliverables in close collaboration with the Subcontractor Manager
• Ensure compliance with ECSS, contractual requirements, and programme-level standards

 
 What success looks like:

• A coherent, stable, and fully traceable engineering baseline
• Strong alignment across engineering disciplines, suppliers, and programme stakeholders
• Successful delivery of design milestones and lifecycle reviews
• High confidence in system readiness, verification evidence, and acceptance preparation 

Requirements

• Proven experience leading engineering delivery within complex space, defence, telecommunications, or infrastructure programmes
• Strong systems engineering background including architecture, requirements, interfaces, and verification
• Experience working in prime contractor or system integrator environments
• Strong knowledge of ECSS engineering processes and lifecycle reviews
• Experience managing engineering teams across multiple disciplines and locations
• Excellent communication skills and ability to engage senior stakeholders

Highly valuable:

• Experience with satellite communications, ground segment, or secure infrastructure
• Experience leading SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and acceptance reviews
• Knowledge of RF systems, infrastructure, software-intensive systems, or cybersecurity
• Experience with RAMS, ILS, or operations engineering 

About SSC

Welcome to SSC Space (formerly Swedish Space Corporation), the perfect workplace for those passionate about technology in general and space in particular.
 
With space organizations, research institutes, institutional and commercial actors as customers, we offer specialist expertise in satellite communications, spacecraft consulting services, rocket and balloon systems, and much more.
 
SSC Space also has one of the world’s largest global networks of ground stations for satellite communications. We own and operate the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, northern Sweden, with the aim of launching satellites in the near future.
 

• Are you driven by technical excellence and motivated to deliver complex systems at scale?
• Are you ready to take on the technical leadership of one of Europe’s most ambitious space programmes?

 
 If you answer yes, we invite you to make a significant impact as IRIS² Engineering Manager. We are looking for someone who shares our core values of Customer passion, Care, Collaboration, Curiosity, and Courage.