EU Technical Project Lead

• 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 • Connect the dots across related efforts so proposals and delivery reinforce each other

• 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. You keep complex work moving across multiple partners and deliver on what's committed • Experience contributing to or leading proposals, including the hands-on technical writing • Knowledge of the European Earth observation, geospatial, and space landscape and how it operates: programmes, procurement, and stakeholders • Excellent communication skills and attention to detail. Fluent in English, with additional European languages a plus • Based in an ESA member state in Europe, for eligibility and travel and time zone compatibility • 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