Technical Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Own project management and product ownership on awarded projects: scope, work packages, costing, planning, backlog, and prioritisation.
• Be a trusted point of contact to ESA, ECMWF, and EUMETSAT technical and contract officers to consortium partners and the wider landscape.
• Contribute with delivery and field experience to our business development, supporting the proposal team on the technical approach and doing the hands-on technical writing on EU proposals.

Requirements:

• Experience leading technical projects as a lead engineer, project manager, or product owner, in environments where you stayed close to the engineering work.
• A strong technical understanding of our domain, comfortable coordinating research & development as well as operational application engineering.
• Solid project management discipline: quarterly scoping and tracking, realistic costing, governance, and version control.
• Experience contributing to or leading proposals, including the hands-on technical writing.

Preferred Experience:

• An existing network across European partners like ESA, VITO, DLR, EOX, Telespazio, CNES et al.
• Experience writing or leading ESA or EU competitive proposals.
• Familiarity with cloud-native data formats and architectures and geospatial specifications and technologies such as OGC API, STAC, TiTiler, openEO, eoAPI.