Head of The Flight Software Section

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Noordwijk, Nederland European Space Agency Voltijd

Head of the Flight Software Section

**Job Requisition ID**:19111**Date Posted**:5 November 2024**Closing Date**:26 November 2024 23:59 CET/CEST**Publication**:Internal & External**Type of Contract**:Permanent**Directorate**:Technology, Engineering and Quality**Workplace**:Noordwijk, NL**Grade Band**:A2 - A4

**Location**
ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands**Description**
Head of the Flight Software Section in the Avionics and EEE Division, Electrical Department, Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality (D/TEC).
Reporting to the Head of the Avionics and EEE Division, as Head of the Flight Software Section, you will be responsible for the management of the Section, its resources and its activities. In addition, you will be accountable within the Agency for the outcome of operational activities conducted within the Section’s technical domain.
The Flight Software Section is responsible for providing support to all ESA projects in the area of flight software and functional engineering, in particular covering:

- engineering of on-board software in all phases, including independent verification and validation of critical software and its verification and validation means, including SVFs and OBC simulators;
- support for software system-related activities, such as FDIR and hardware-software co-engineering, and functional engineering, for example system functional design, verification and validation activities, AIT/AIV activities, launch preparations and operations in collaboration with other groups in D/TEC and D/OPS (Directorate of Operations);
- the development and assessment of technologies, methods and tools for on-board software, such as software design, verification and validation methodologies, software ecosystems and reference software implementations;
- the development of software-related engineering standards in the framework of ECSS and other standardisation bodies;
- the establishment and maintenance of a flight software laboratory in support of Section and industrial activities.

**Duties**
Within the technical domains defined above, your tasks and responsibilities will include the following:
**Workload assessment and assignment**:

- Establishing the (multi-year) plan of activities for the Section, covering required competences and assignment of resources;
- Establishing annual objectives and managing/coordinating, on a day-to-day basis, specialised technical support in the Section’s fields of expertise in full collaboration with the functional managers;
- Actively contributing to increasing the agility and flexibility required to meet the short-notice and peak-period resource needs of projects;
- Accountability for all activities and resources delegated to the Section, and for resolving possible conflicting demands on the use of the Section’s resources.

**Talent management**:

- Maintaining state-of-the-art expertise in the Section - identifying, developing, maintaining and tracking the technical competences required to meet current and future strategic needs;
- Driving the development of people within your area of responsibility, facilitating the development of people beyond your area of responsibility, and encouraging mobility when it serves the organisation’s interests;
- Encouraging the integration of newcomers and contributing to their initial development plans, in particular in the first three years of their contracts.

**Support management**:

- Monitoring, measuring and reporting on performance at individual and team level, in particular regarding the Section’s objectives;
- Accountability to the hierarchy for all daily matters within the Section and for the achievement of the Section’s objectives.

**Expertise: management of tools/processes/working methods**:

- Ensuring regular interaction between the Section members, supporting teamwork, the exchange of experience and lessons learned, and the gathering of feedback;
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of working procedures, tools, processes, expert working methods and delivery methods, such as lessons learned and knowledge management, and to reflections on the evolution of the Section’s role and activities;
- Representing the Agency in your area(s) of expertise within ESA and with external entities, including industry and delegations;
- Coordinating the dissemination of the Section’s results within and beyond ESA, in particular via conferences, workshops and R&D presentation days.

**R&D/technology management**:

- In line with anticipated technology trends and project needs, defining, promoting and implementing the Section’s contributions to ESA technology programmes and R&D activities;
- Coordinating, where applicable, the requirements of technology elements in your domain of expertise with the overall requirements of systems being developed under the responsibility of other areas in the Directorate;
- Liaising with relevant technology expert groups and coordination mechanisms.

**Laboratories**:

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