Working for Open Cosmos
Aim high, go beyond! At Open Cosmos we are solving the world’s biggest challenges from space, providing businesses, governments and researchers access to more readily available information than ever before - ready for the challenge? Then read on…
Ground Segment Products Team
Our team develops, operates, and maintains cloud-based ground segment software critical for satellite operations. This includes our mission operations and image processing products that maintain reliable operations and provide valuable data insights to our customers. We follow a highly agile methodology in the team, we look for suggestions & contributions from all team members, and we’re not afraid to try new ways of working when we see an opportunity for improvement.
What will you be doing?
As Ground Segment Team Lead, you'll provide leadership and day-to-day line management for a team of Engineers. You'll take responsibility for Engineering velocity (burndown rate of the backlog), and the quality of the product area they cover.
You’ll be the main point of contact for product and system engineering teams for the ground segment products, identifying feasibility and deltas for proposals, capturing project requirements and deriving the roadmap for the team to deliver.
The successful candidate will be expected to have a strong knowledge of software and development lifecycles in order to have a deep understanding of our systems. Be proactive about ways to improve the team's velocity to deliver new releases quicker by improving these processes.
What you need to be successful
We’re more interested in what you can do than being dogmatic about your background! We’d love to take a look at your CV even if you’re not sure you tick all the boxes.
To succeed in this role, you’ll need: