Lead Senior System Engineering Specialist

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About the role

  • Senior systems engineer coordinating Telesat Lightspeed satellite and ground infrastructure adaptations for Canadian military Ka-band communications. Supporting secure, resilient communications for Canada’s defence programs.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical coordination to adapt Telesat Lightspeed’s low Earth orbit constellation and ground infrastructure for military Ka-band communications
  • Translate customer and mission requirements into traceability matrices and coordinate resolution of gaps, assumptions, conflicts, and ambiguities
  • Lead focused engineering trade studies and coordinate input from segment specialists
  • Review test and verification approaches and evidence against customer requirements
  • Maintain system-level interface and verification plans for high-risk operating scenarios
  • Identify evidence gaps and coordinate tests, analyses, and demonstrations
  • Coordinate mission-operations and service-management integration with operations and product teams
  • Assess capabilities for mission planning, configuration, monitoring, reporting, service requests, maintenance information, and customer reporting
  • Coordinate security, data-protection, and safety requirements with relevant specialists
  • Lead system-level performance assessments for military Ka-band user-terminal configurations, including throughput and capacity
  • Lead technical discussions with customers and internal teams
  • Maintain action and decision logs and track issues to disposition or escalation
  • Report technical status, requirement coverage, interface readiness, test evidence, and delivery risks
  • Serve as a senior individual contributor without managing staff

Requirements

  • Must be able to work in Canada
  • Must obtain clearance under the Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP)
  • Ability to obtain and maintain security clearance up to Top Secret level
  • Bachelor’s degree in systems, electrical, communications, aerospace, or computer engineering, or equivalent experience
  • At least 10 years of systems engineering experience on complex communications, aerospace, satellite, or defence programs
  • Technical leadership experience across multiple teams
  • Experience with end-to-end satellite communications systems and space, gateway, network, mission-operations, and user-terminal interfaces
  • Experience in requirements management, traceability, interface control, technical risk management, and system verification and validation
  • Experience leading customer-facing technical discussions, resolving requirement ambiguity, and producing compliance and customer-acceptance evidence
  • Working knowledge of cybersecurity and data-protection engineering in government programs
  • Model-based systems engineering experience or tools is an asset
  • Experience coordinating Canadian defence, communications, radio-frequency safety, or environmental standards is an asset

Benefits

  • Full-time employment with benefits
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Interview-process accommodations provided as needed
  • Confidential handling of accommodation information

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Cyber Security

Location requirements

HybridOttawaCanada

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