EUMETSAT is Europe’s meteorological satellite agency. Its role is to establish and operate meteorological satellites to monitor the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This information is supplied to the National Meteorological Services of the organisation's Member and Cooperating States in Europe, as well as other users worldwide.
BACKGROUND
The Director of Technical and Scientific Support (TSS) is responsible for delivering coherent and cost-efficient technical and scientific support to the development and operations of satellite systems, including delegated development projects, as well as generic ICT and management support services to the whole of EUMETSAT.
He/she is a member of the EUMETSAT Management Board and reports directly to the Director-General.
DUTIES
- Manage the TSS department and its allocated resources, such that key competencies are maintained and available at the level required, in particular the areas of:
- System, ground segment and software engineering, including information security;
- Cloud and other big data technology and related concepts and applications;
- Remote sensing science, product development and calibration/validation;
- Process assurance, project control, and configuration and information management processes.
- Organise and supervise system engineering support to the operations of satellite systems, including harmonisation and upgrades of ground systems and service infrastructure, in response to obsolescence and evolving needs and for efficiency gains;
- Guide and supervise the design, development and deployment of innovative and high security cloud infrastructure, applications and services to meteorological and other stakeholders and users;
- Maintain the architecture of the EUMETSAT multi-mission ground segment and related infrastructure, and provide cost effective long term and expert maintenance of ground systems, infrastructure, equipment, sites and services supporting operations and services to users, including expert support to anomaly investigation;
- Organise and supervise system and ground system engineering support to the development of new satellite systems, including management of a portfolio of delegated ground segment development and upgrade projects;
- Organise and supervise the design, development and verification of algorithms and processing chains, the calibration and validation of output meteorological and climate products, and the related interactions with the science and user community;
- Deliver state-of-the art and cost effective generic ICT services to the full organisation, and maintain related tools, including the ERP system;
- Deliver state of the art, harmonised management support services to the whole of EUMETSAT in the areas of process and quality assurance, project control and planning, configuration and information management.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Minimum of ten years experience in the management of the design, development and testing of ground segments of Earth Observation or other satellite systems;
- Minimum of five years experience in a technical managerial position, including management responsibility for a portfolio of development projects;
- Successful management of complex development projects involving multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists;
- Proven experience in product and process assurance throughout the full lifecycle of complex operational systems, from design to development, verification and validation;
- Successful experience of customer - supplier relationship models, and management of support resources in a matrix organisation would be an advantage.
QUALIFICATIONS
- University degree in a relevant engineering discipline, or other qualification and equivalent professional experience.
LANGUAGES
- The official languages of EUMETSAT are English and French. Candidates must be able to work effectively in English and have some knowledge of French.
Application email address: eumetsat@kornferry.com
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