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Mission Control Application Engineer MW
2014-09-22 12:41:30| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
With 1.700 employees worldwide, the CS Group is a leading IT company in France and in Germany, and a prime contractor in designing, integrating and operating mission critical systems. It has now been over 30 years that comprehensive CS solutions for space systems and applications, both on the ground and in space, have been part and parcel of this odyssey. Our German activities grow at fast pace and to face our costumers high level expectations and needs, we are looking for talented profiles having relevant experience in Space systems and applications. TASKS The key person will provide hisher prime support to the Mission Control Applications and Tools Team of EUMETSAT and heshe will contribute to the requirements specification, design and development of Mission Control Applications for new Programmes PhaseBCD, including the setting up of the related maintenance arrangements and processes. The tasks of the key person will typically include Support to GSI MCA ActivitiesReference Architecture Participation to the definition and maintenance of the EUMETSAT TSS reference architecture for the Mission Control Applications part of the Ground Segment. Support to new Missions PhaseB activities Requirements engineering Participation to the functional analysis and decomposition of the Ground Segment requirements in the domain of Mission Control Applications. Support the definition of Ground Segment requirements in the area of the Mission Control Applications. Participation to workshops and review meetings. Interfacing with Operations to consolidate the operational concept in the Mission Control Applications requirements. Support the identification of the verification method and initial test cases for the Mission Control Applications requirements. Incorporate the reuse of the EUMETSAT Mission Control Application kernel products in the Ground Segment requirements. Interfacing with the Mission Control Applications kernel product experts in the MCA Team to coordinate their contributions to the requirements definition. System Architectural design Support the generation of the architectural system level design of the Mission Control Applications as part of the Ground Segment. Support the production of design models using Systems Engineering and CASE tools. Support the definition and documentation of all interfaces IRDsICDs between the elements of the Mission Control Applications and other Ground Segment or external elements. Incorporate the reuse of the EUMETSAT Mission Control Applications kernel products in the Ground Segment design. Support to New Mission PhaseCD activities Support to Applications implementation Support to the requirement and design engineering activities as part of the applications development. Participation and contribution in requirements, design and implementation reviews both internal and with external contractors. Follow the software development by external contractors of the Mission Control Applications. Support to IVV and Acceptance Participation in verification readiness reviews and verification testing campaigns both internal and with external contractors. PROFILE In addition to having a University degree in a relevant engineering discipline, the key person shall demonstrate significant knowledge and experience in the area of specification, design, implementation and maintenance of Mission Control Applications. The key person shall have skills and experience in the following mandatory areas 1. Domain Skills Experience minimum 3 years in the definition of system requirements and production of system architectural design artefacts in the domain of the Mission Control Applications of a Ground Segment. Experience minimum 3 years in the definition of requirements and architectural design for the following individual subsystems Satellite Monitoring Control, Mission Planning and Flight Dynamics. Experience minimum 3 years in software maintenance and evolution of Satellite Monitoring Control Systems based on MICONYS software suite from ESAESOC. In particular experience in the telemetry and commanding chains, archive and automation components is considered mandatory. Knowledge and understanding with actual working experience of space related standards ECSS and CCSDS concerning spacetoground interfaces and applicable to Satellite Mission Control Systems such as ECSS Packet Utilisation Standard PUS, CCSDS Space Packet Protocol SPP and CCSDS Space Link Extension Protocol SLE. 2. Software Development, Verification Maintenance Skills Extensive experience minimum 5 years in the full cycle of development of Mission Control Applications following formal software engineering processes. This includes user and system requirement analysis, software requirement engineering, software design, implementation, corrective and evolutive maintenance activities. Experience minimum 3 years in IVV integration, verification and validation activities for Mission Control Applications following formal engineering processes. This includes requirement verification, system and subsystem integration, generation of test plan and test procedures, nonregression testing, generation of test data, generation of test tools, running the test procedures on the target system, generation of test reports and anomaly tracking. It would be a distinct advantage for the key person to have knowledge andor experience with some of the following 3. Domain Skills Experience with Mission Control Applications for LEO spacecraft. Experience with Satellite Simulators. 4. Technology Skills IBM DOORS requirement management Tool. Vitech CORE Systems Engineering Tool. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect Tool. Linux Operating System. Data model design for RDBMS. XML processing schema design, validation, parser libraries, transformation XSLT and XPath. Eclipse Rich Client Platform applications development and maintenance. Experience using tools for the automation of software testing. The official languages of EUMETSAT are English and French. The working language for the position is English and therefore the key person must be able to work effectively in this language and have knowledge of the other. How to apply Please consider the following points before applying Please submit your complete application documents in English. An attached cover letter should mention your availability and salary expectations. Interested applicants should submit their CV to marina.ludwigcssystems.de with CC to francoisxavier.laffontcs.fr with the job title. Due to new work permit restrictions for this position, please apply only if you are citizen of a European Union state or if you hold all appropriate documentation and permits to work in Europe. Closing date 31 October, 2014
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