About this job

Sapienza Consulting, a tpgroup company, is recruiting a Solutions Architect who will be working on a very exciting satellite mission.

We require a candidate with an excellent understanding of satellite projects (ideally nano satellite) at both system and subsystem levels, incorporating space and ground segments, with experience conceiving solutions and leading a team to deliver them.

The team is involved in supporting system design, system analysis, major bids, implementation, and testing of military satellite communications networks including satellites built to civil and military specifications. These networks can involve GEO, MEO and LEO satellite, whilst we are also supporting experimental work using nano-satellites.

Responsibilities

• Analyse customer requirements that involved complex technical aspects and trade off studies
• Design, develop and prepare system designs for GEO and non-GEO/LEO/CubeSats constellations and their associated test environments
• Ground segment engineering, development and test
• Technical Project Management
• Lead meetings involving sub-contractors and/or customers
• Review and provide commentary on existing customer analysis and documents
• Delivering key work packages

Profile

Essential:

• Graduate with a good Honours or Masters degree in a relevant subject; equivalent qualifications and/or experience can be considered as an alternative
• At least ten years’ experience
• Thorough understanding of satellite systems and associated engineering concepts
• Good appreciation of mission design, constellation concepts, environmental effects, orbital mechanics, space regulations
• Ability to work creatively and methodically to conceive design solutions to mission requirements and constraints, encompassing systems and operations; to direct and evaluate the work of other design engineers
• Experience of decomposing system solutions, managing their development, and managing subsystem acceptance, qualification and integration
• Experience of specifying systems for procurement and with the process of technical engaging and evaluating suppliers, and of technically managing suppliers during development
• Strong practical knowledge of systems engineering practices from requirements engineering through design/development, integration and on to VV&T; depth of understanding to tailor standards appropriate to the project and organise team engineering activities accordingly
• Experience with ESA project and documentation processes and familiarisation with ECSS and other standards
• Experience in producing feasibility and trade-off studies
• Technical Project Management experience.
• Good customer-facing and communication skills with the ability to produce and present clear, concise and unambiguous presentations to customers and other clients
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK

Nice to have:

• Experience and knowledge of IP network design, protocols and security of data; experience of troubleshooting of network, RF signal connection and protocol problems, including identifying and solving problems and issues
• Chartered Engineer or equivalent
• Satellite Link Budgets and System Capacity Modelling
• Practical experience in the commissioning and testing of satellite systems (space and/or ground segment based) with a leading satellite network operator (GEO and/or non-GEO)
• Experience with challenges associated with systems integration, including COTS (Commercial Off the Shelf) integration, capacity and performance analysis and system architecture design

If you are interested in applying then please click apply and one of the recruitment team will be in touch.