Chief Engineer - HSPN Program

Indra·Madrid, Spain

What they ask for

  • Have the right to work in Spain

    Indra doesn't mention sponsorship in the ad.

  • Work in English

    English is required, per the ad.

  • Work on-site in Madrid

    No relocation package mentioned.

  • Have senior-level experience

    Lead-level role.

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About the role

At Indra Group, we protect what matters most.

We lead the development of cutting-edge technological solutions that strengthen national and international security.

🛰️ Join our Systems Engineering team!

We are looking for a Chief Engineer to technically lead the HSPN program, taking overall responsibility for technical decisions and ensuring the balance between performance, cost, risks, schedule, and industrialization throughout the entire system lifecycle.

📍 Location: Torrejón de Ardoz

What you'll do

• Technically lead the program, acting as the highest engineering authority and technical reference for customers, partners, and internal teams.

• Define, integrate, and evolve the system architecture and its main subsystems.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams in a matrix environment, fostering collaboration across Program, Engineering, Production, Quality, Procurement, and ISS.

• Ensure proper management and traceability of technical, regulatory, certification, and security requirements.

• Lead technical reviews, configuration management, change control, and resolution of critical issues.

• Manage technical risks, defining mitigation plans and ensuring the technological and industrial maturity of solutions.

• Define technical milestones, deliverables, and acceptance criteria for the program.

• Actively participate in technical planning and project monitoring.

• Represent the technical position of the program with customers, certification bodies, strategic suppliers, and partners.

• Ensure proper integration of hardware, software, and embedded systems technologies, as well as industrialization.

Languages

• Advanced English is required.

What you'll get

Stability and Future 🏢✨: Involvement in high-impact strategic programs within the Defense sector.

Innovation 🚀: Work with advanced technologies and complex systems.

Leadership 🤝: Key role in the technical direction of a strategic program.

International Environment 🌍: Collaboration with top-tier clients, partners, and suppliers.

Career Path 📈: Growth toward technical leadership and program management positions.

Continuous Training 📚: Open University and Udemy for Business.

Exclusive Benefits 🎁 and flexible compensation 💸📊.

🎯 What are we looking for?

Education:

Degree in Telecommunications Engineering, Electronics, Computer Science, or a related field.

Minimum experience:

Consolidated experience in technical leadership roles within complex engineering programs, preferably in the Defense sector or critical systems.

Technical skills:

• Systems engineering and architecture of complex systems.
• Integration of multidisciplinary systems.
• Product lifecycle management.
• Requirements management and technical traceability.
• Configuration management and change control.
• Technical risk management.
• Hardware, software, and embedded systems.
• Validation, verification, and acceptance of complex systems.

Valuable functional knowledge:

• Defense systems development programs.
• Technical review and certification processes.
• Planning and execution of complex programs.
• Relationship with institutional customers and certification bodies.
• Aeronautical regulations, methodologies, and standards (DO-178, DO-254, ARP4754, or similar).
• Industrialization and production processes.

Key competencies:

• Technical leadership and organizational influence.
• Decision-making capability in complex environments.
• Holistic product and system vision.
• Ability to interface with customers and strategic stakeholders.
• Results orientation and commitment to deadlines.
• Team management and coordination of multidisciplinary groups.

Additional information

As a company, we understand equality as a cross-cutting principle and a driver of social change. Based on this conviction, we reaffirm our commitment to equal treatment and opportunities between women and men, non-discrimination, equal pay, and work-life balance.

This commitment is reflected in the promotion of respectful and inclusive work environments, where all people are treated with dignity, can develop professionally, and have equal opportunities in selection, training, and promotion processes, offering a work environment free from any discrimination based on sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, ethnicity, marital status, or any other personal or social circumstance.

¡INDRA is a Top Employer 2026 company! Join a company certified as one of the best employers in Spain, thanks to our comprehensive HR management and the conditions we offer our professionals.

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About the company

Indra

Indra

IT and Defense

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Spanish company
57000 employees