IRIS2 Senior/Programme Test Manager

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As a leader in satellite communications, we provide global connectivity solutions - connecting businesses, communities, and governments around the world. 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.

With Eutelsat You'll Get To:

• Pioneer the future of Space Technology
• Bring connectivity to remote frontiers
• Collaborate with customer-centric experts
• Embrace cultural diversity in our global team

In 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.

Why Eutelsat ?

• Commitment 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.
• Ways of Working That Drive Us: As \"One Team,\" we work collaboratively towards shared goals, with customer‐centricity, respect, and inclusivity as our guiding principles.
• Sustainability 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.
• Work-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.

Job Overview

We 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.

Who You Are:

• A strategic test and IVV leader who can operate at executive level while retaining the technical depth to challenge architects, engineers and suppliers.
• An independent, evidence‐led decision‐maker, comfortable presenting system readiness, residual risk and difficult recommendations to senior boards and external authorities.
• A systems thinker who creates clarity across complex technical, organisational, commercial and regulatory boundaries.
• A collaborative leader who builds trusted relationships without compromising the objectivity or authority of the IVV function.
• Proactive in identifying integration risk early and pragmatic in balancing engineering rigour, programme pace and commercial realities.

What You'll Do:

• Own programme‐level IVV, integration, test and acceptance strategy, translating mission, service, contractual and regulatory requirements into an executable assurance approach.
• Establish the IVV operating model, governance forums, quality gates, escalation routes, decision rights and acceptance authorities, maintaining appropriate independence from delivery organisations.
• Define a progressive acceptance pathway from component and subsystem testing through segment integration, cross‐segment validation, service readiness and full E2E acceptance.
• Create 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.
• Set clear entry, exit and acceptance criteria, with traceability from requirements and operational scenarios through evidence, defects, limitations, risks and acceptance decisions.
• Lead assurance across the complete service chain, including space, ground, network, security, service management, operations and user‐terminal domains, covering functional and non‐functional performance.
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