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We can connect you at on land, at sea and in the air. We also deliver broadcast television channels and packages, transmitting vital news reports around the world.\nWith Eutelsat You’ll Get To:\nPioneer the future of Space Technology\nBring connectivity to remote frontiers\nCollaborate with customer-centric experts\nEmbrace cultural diversity in our global team\nIn a dynamic industry where passion drives our teams to make a difference to become the most trusted partner for global satellite connectivity, you will elevate your skills in a stretching, rewarding, and meaningful environment. At Eutelsat, we’re united by inclusion and diversity, striving for gender balance and social responsibility, on Earth and in Space.\nWhy Eutelsat ?\nCommitment to Diversity & Inclusion: With colleagues from over 75 countries, we embrace our global DNA and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We are proud that one-third of our executive team and 60% of our board are represented by women.\nWays of Working That Drive Us: As \"One Team,\" we work collaboratively towards shared goals, with customer-centricity, respect, and inclusivity as our guiding principles.\nSustainability at Our Core: At Eutelsat, sustainability is more than just a word; it’s woven into our strategy. We’re dedicated to balancing social, environmental, and economic growth - both on Earth and in space.\nWork-Life Balance: We offer flexible schedules and hybrid work options to help you balance your personal and professional life. At Eutelsat, we are committed to supporting your well-being and ensuring you have the flexibility you need to succeed both at work and at home.\nReady to grow with us? Apply today and help us build a more inclusive, sustainable future in the world of satellite technology.\nJob Overview\nWe are looking for an accomplished Senior Programme Test & Integration Verification and Validation (IVV) Manager to lead end-to-end assurance for the IRIS2 programme. You will define and drive the integration, verification, validation and progressive acceptance strategy across a complex multi-vendor satellite communications ecosystem. Working with programme leadership, suppliers, system integrators, ESA, regulatory bodies and institutional partners, you will ensure that capability is tested objectively and incrementally as it becomes available - not deferred to a single late-stage end-to-end campaign. You will also establish the governance, teams, laboratories and evidence base required to support confident acceptance decisions.\nWho You Are:\nA strategic test and IVV leader who can operate at executive level while retaining the technical depth to challenge architects, engineers and suppliers.\nAn independent, evidence-led decision-maker, comfortable presenting system readiness, residual risk and difficult recommendations to senior boards and external authorities.\nA systems thinker who creates clarity across complex technical, organisational, commercial and regulatory boundaries.\nA collaborative leader who builds trusted relationships without compromising the objectivity or authority of the IVV function.\nProactive in identifying integration risk early and pragmatic in balancing engineering rigour, programme pace and commercial realities.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nOwn programme-level IVV, integration, test and acceptance strategy, translating mission, service, contractual and regulatory requirements into an executable assurance approach.\nEstablish the IVV operating model, governance forums, quality gates, escalation routes, decision rights and acceptance authorities, maintaining appropriate independence from delivery organisations.\nDefine a progressive acceptance pathway from component and subsystem testing through segment integration, cross-segment validation, service readiness and full E2E acceptance.\nCreate capability based integration increments and minimum viable test configurations, using simulators, emulators, stubs, reference implementations and digital twins to retire priority risks before all production elements are available.\nSet clear entry, exit and acceptance criteria, with traceability from requirements and operational scenarios through evidence, defects, limitations, risks and acceptance decisions.\nLead assurance across the complete service chain, including space, ground, network, security, service management, operations and user-terminal domains, covering functional and non-functional performance.\nAlign suppliers and partners to common test standards, readiness criteria, evidence requirements and reporting conventions; identify coverage gaps and hold delivery organisations accountable for credible evidence.\nDrive resolution of cross-supplier defects and interface issues where technical or contractual ownership is unclear, working closely with systems engineering, architecture, security, operations, commercial and procurement teams.\nDefine and establish the programme integration laboratory, representative test environments and test-data roadmap, combining physical equipment with simulation, automation, observability, telemetry and results analytics.\nMaintain the integrated test and acceptance plan, dependencies, resources, executive metrics and readiness reporting, and provide objective recommendations on whether the integrated capability is fit for operational use.\nBuild and lead a multidisciplinary IVV organisation spanning internal teams, specialist partners and supplier resources, creating a culture of transparency, collaboration and engineering discipline.\nWhat You’ll Need:\nSignificant programme-level leadership experience in testing, IVV, system integration or acceptance on a complex system-of-systems.\nA strong track record on large-scale, mission-critical, safety-critical or nationally significant infrastructure programmes.\nProven experience defining end-to-end test and acceptance strategies, including progressive integration of capabilities delivered at different times by multiple organisations.\nExperience of complex multi-vendor delivery and of assessing whether supplier strategies and evidence are sufficient for programme acceptance.\nExperience working with ESA, regulatory bodies, government organisations or comparable international institutions, and presenting to executive decision-makers.\nPractical experience establishing integration laboratories, representative test environments or assurance capabilities from the ground up.\nStrong knowledge of systems-engineering lifecycles, requirements management, verification, validation, configuration control, governance and risk management.\nRelevant professional accreditation or membership would be advantageous.\nTechnical Skills\nBachelors degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or Maths. Masters degree preferred.\nProfessional experience in systems engineering, telecommunications, satellite communications, electronics, software engineering or a related discipline.\nTechnical experience in one or more of: LEO/MEO/GEO systems; 5G/NTN or 4G/LTE; user terminals; satellite ground systems; IP networks; RF; service platforms; resilience, security or test automation.\nWorking ability to script in Python and SQL, Bash, Perl or similar languages.\nExcellent understanding of IP networking, RF engineering, 4G/LTE, QoS. 5G experience strongly preferred.\n10+ years experience preferred with LEO/MEO/GEO satellite systems, their CONOPS and systems performance variables and their optimization.\nExperience with Linux, VMWare, AWS/Azure or other cloud providers.\nExperience in leading E2E test automation, framework design and implementation\nWhere You’ll Work:\nToulouse or Paris or Torino, with travel required between Eutelsat, supplier and partner sites.\nCandidate must be an EU27 citizen, which is a requirement for this role.\nEutelsat treats the protection of personal data submitted to it seriously. By submitting this application, you agree to the collection and retention of your personal data by Eutelsat and acknowledge notice of, and understand the terms of Eutelsat’s Privacy Policy (as amended from time to time).\nThis role is a Eutelsat job opening; all of our open roles are posted on the current OneWeb and Eutelsat websites. 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