Descrizione dell'offerta
Overview
At D-Orbit, we are pioneering the future of space logistics and transportation. We are looking for a Senior Space Segment Architect within our Business Unit Government & Defense to be the technical authority on space segment architecture of complex institutional and defense missions.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and lead the end‑to‑end space segment architecture for institutional, government and defense space missions, ensuring coherence across platform, payload and space segment elements.
- Translate mission objectives and customer needs into consolidated space segment architectures, including system budgets, functional decomposition and interface definitions.
- Drive system‑level trade‑offs and architectural decisions considering performance, cost, schedule, risk and program constraints.
- Define and maintain space segment requirements, ensuring proper allocation to system and subsystem levels and full traceability across the lifecycle.
- Develop and control key system budgets (mass, power, data, thermal, pointing), ensuring consistency with mission requirements and design maturity.
- Coordinate interfaces between space segment, ground segment and launch segment, ensuring technical consistency and compatibility.
- Support project execution by providing architectural guidance during design, AIT, verification and validation phases.
- Lead and participate in system‑level technical reviews and act as technical interface with customers, partners and institutional stakeholders.
- Contribute to proposal and pre‑sales activities by defining space segment concepts, architectures, development approaches and technical risk assessments.
- Contribute within the BU technical team to the definition of product, system and technology roadmaps, aligned with corporate strategy and market trends.
Skills & Qualifications
- Minimum 10+ years of professional experience in space system engineering and space segment architecture roles.
- Proven experience in defining space segment architectures for institutional, governmental or defense missions.
- Demonstrated experience covering the full development lifecycle of a satellite program, from early mission phases (Phase 0/A/B) through detailed design, AIT, verification, qualification and in‑orbit delivery.
- Direct experience on ESA and institutional programs (e.g., Copernicus, MoD) including familiarity with contractual frameworks, technical governance and ECSS compliance processes.
- Ability to operate effectively within multi‑stakeholder institutional environments, interfacing with agencies, prime contractors and international partners throughout the program lifecycle.
- Strong background in spacecraft system engineering, including requirements management, interfaces and system budgets.
- Solid knowledge of ECSS standards and familiarity with institutional program environments (ESA, national agencies, defense).
- Demonstrated ability to perform system‑level trade‑offs and manage technical complexity in multidisciplinary environments.
- Experience interfacing with ground and launch segments and with multiple industrial partners.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to engage customers and stakeholders at senior technical level.
- Experience in proposal preparation and early mission phase studies (Phase 0/A/B) is considered a strong asset.
- Good communication skills and willingness to operate in an international and institutional environment.
- Deep knowledge of AI tools.