Lead the design and architecture of the Telesat Lightspeed constellation, ensuring alignment with business goals and overseeing integration across systems.
This critical role focuses on the advanced systems architecture for the strategic Lightspeed product being developed by Telesat. The ideal candidate will lead the definition, prioritization, and design of the Lightspeed constellation, with a particular focus on end-to-end product system architecture. The architecture covers all components of the Lightspeed solution including satellites, terminals, networking, and ground systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and evolve the Telesat Lightspeed constellation architecture, enabling dynamic service orchestration, configuration management, telemetry, and lifecycle automation across distributed systems.
- Define and maintain the end-to-end product system architecture.
- Ensure architectural alignment with business and operational goals, including fault tolerance, observability, and maintainability.
- Provide architectural oversight during Agile Release Product Increment planning, sprint execution, and release readiness, ensuring technical consistency and strategic alignment.
- Prioritize development efforts based on business value, technical feasibility, and strategic alignment.
- Lead the development and governance of the system architecture for Telesat Lightspeed, including hardware, embedded software, cloud-native services, network orchestration, and edge computing.
- Define and maintain architectural standards, ensuring alignment with business goals, security, and performance requirements.
- Work closely with respective domain architects responsible for delivering hardware and software components and ensure seamless integration into the overall system architecture.
- Oversee technical evaluations, interface definitions, and integration strategies for third-party solutions.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
- 12+ years of experience in software development and systems architecture.
- Strong understanding of embedded systems, networking and communication protocols, network management operations, and satellite domains.
- Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering and the Capella toolset would be an asset.
- Knowledge of cloud computing platforms.
- Familiarity with Cybersecurity paradigms.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with Jira and Confluence would be an asset.
The successful candidate must be able to work in Canada and obtain clearance under the Canadian Controlled Goods program (CGP).
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Top Skills
Capella Toolset
Cloud Computing
Confluence
Embedded Systems
JIRA
Model Based Systems Engineering
Networking Protocols
Telesat Ottawa, Ontario, CAN Office
160 Elgin St, Suite 2100, , , Ottawa, Ontario , Canada, K2P 2P7
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