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You will act as the overall technical authority, owning the engineering baseline and ensuring the integrated system is coherent, compliant, secure, and deliverable across a multi-disciplinary ground segment.\nYou operate with end-to-end engineering authority within programme governance, driving and owning technical decision-making, trade-offs, and cross-discipline alignment across the programme. 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