Senior Engineering Delivery Lead
Role Overview
The Senior Engineering Delivery Manager coordinates engineering execution across the Core User Terminal platform.
The role aligns software, hardware, integration, test, and release work across disciplines and teams.
The position focuses on engineering execution leadership and delivery coordination, not direct people management, product ownership, project management, or architecture decisions.
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About Telesat
Telesat is a global satellite operator serving broadcast, telecommunications, corporate, and government customers.
Telesat Lightspeed is a planned Low Earth Orbit satellite network scheduled to begin service in 2027.
Role overview
The Senior Engineering Delivery Manager coordinates engineering execution across the Core User Terminal platform.
The role aligns software, hardware, integration, test, and release work across disciplines and teams.
The position focuses on engineering execution leadership and delivery coordination, not direct people management, product ownership, project management, or architecture decisions.
Engineering delivery and integration
- Own the integrated Core UT delivery plan and establish milestones, priorities, ownership, critical paths, and execution plans.
- Coordinate engineering teams and resolve dependencies, risks, blockers, and schedule issues; escalate unresolved concerns with mitigation recommendations.
- Lead platform integration and release planning, readiness criteria, quality gates, go/no-go reviews, and integration events.
- Provide status, risk, dependency, and readiness assessments for solution-level planning and governance.
Governance and collaboration
- Maintain dashboards, milestone reports, dependency trackers, risk registers, and blocker-management processes.
- Facilitate delivery reviews and coordination forums, and report progress, risks, mitigation actions, readiness, and release status.
- Coordinate with product, program, engineering, architecture, technical specialist, and Solution Train stakeholders.
- Lead post-release reviews, develop delivery metrics, and recommend improvements to engineering practices and governance.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 7+ years leading complex engineering development programs in software, hardware, telecommunications, aerospace, networking, or related technology industries.
- Experience coordinating multiple engineering teams in a technical product development environment and managing dependencies, integration, and release execution.
- Strong understanding of systems engineering, software development lifecycles, product development processes, and technical risk management.
- Strong leadership, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills; able to influence without direct authority.
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Release Train Engineering, or similar execution frameworks.
- Must be able to work in Canada and obtain clearance under the Canadian Controlled Goods Program.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in satellite or wireless communications, networking, modem development, or user terminal systems.
- Experience leading platform-level integration and release activities involving hardware and software deliverables.
- Familiarity with large-scale telecommunications or aerospace programs; experience developing engineering metrics, dashboards, and execution governance processes.
- SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), PMP, Agile, or equivalent certification.
Working conditions
- The role offers a hybrid work environment in a generally comfortable office setting.
- International travel is required.
- This is an individual-contributor role.
Success measures
Improve delivery predictability, release readiness, platform quality, and visibility across stakeholders.
Reduce dependency-related schedule impacts and aging blockers through earlier risk identification and resolution.
Successfully execute major integration, validation, and release milestones.
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