Technical Manager - Aircraft Self-Protection Systems

Technical Manager - Aircraft Self-Protection Systems

Indra
Indra
Madrid, SpainCompetitiveOn-siteAdded 22 days agoSenior🇬🇧English: Required

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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 to bring on board a Technical Manager – Aircraft Self-Protection Systems to take part in CARMENTA, a strategic European program aimed at developing the next generation of self-protection systems for fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft platforms.

The selected candidate will join the program's lead technical team, leading the definition of complex solutions and coordinating multiple engineering disciplines to ensure system success throughout its entire life cycle.

📍 Location: Torrejón de Ardoz

What you'll do

• Technically lead the development and evolution of aircraft self-protection systems.

• Contribute to the definition and evolution of complex system architectures.

• Act as the technical point of reference for customers, industrial partners, and internal teams.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams in a matrix environment.

• Ensure compliance with technical, regulatory, certification, and safety requirements.

• Lead configuration management, change control, and critical issue resolution activities.

• Identify and manage technical risks, defining mitigation plans.

• Ensure the technological and industrial maturity of the solutions developed.

• Contribute to the program's technical planning by defining milestones, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.

• Coordinate the integration of hardware, software, and embedded systems solutions.

• Represent the program's technical position with customers, agencies, partners, and strategic suppliers.

What you'll get

Stability and Future 🏢✨: Participation in one of the most innovative European programs in the Defense sector.

Innovation 🚀: Development of advanced technologies for the protection of aircraft platforms.

Real Impact 🤝: Your contribution will have a direct influence on defining future defense capabilities.

International Environment 🌍: Collaboration with European industrial partners and agencies.

Career Path 📈: Growth toward key technical positions in strategic programs.

Continuous training 📚: Open University and Udemy for Business.

Exclusive benefits 🎁 and flexible compensation 💸📊.

🎯 What are we looking for in you?

Education:

Telecommunications, Electronic, Computer Engineering, or similar.

Minimum experience:

Solid experience in the technical leadership of complex engineering programs, preferably in Defense, Aerospace, or critical systems.

Technical knowledge:

• Systems engineering and architecture of complex systems.

• Multidisciplinary systems integration.

• Product life cycle management.

• Requirements management and traceability.

• Configuration management and change control.

• Technical risk management.

• Embedded hardware and software systems.

• Validation and verification of complex systems.

Valuable functional knowledge:

• Defense electronic systems.

• Sensors, mission systems, or self-protection.

• European defense programs (EDF).

• Coordination of technical reviews (SDR, PDR, CDR).

• Certification and qualification processes.

• Aeronautical standards (DO-178, DO-254, or similar).

• Industrialization and transition to production.

Key competencies:

• Technical leadership.

• Ability to influence and coordinate in matrix environments.

• Overall system perspective.

• Communication and negotiation skills.

• Analytical thinking and results orientation.

• Effective management of priorities in complex environments.

Languages:

• Advanced English (minimum B2, C1 valued).

Other requirements:

• Ability to obtain or hold a Personal Security Clearance (PSC).

Additional information

As a company, we understand equality as a cross-cutting principle and a driver of social change. From this conviction, we reaffirm our commitment to equal treatment and opportunities between women and men, non-discrimination, pay equity, and the reconciliation of professional and personal life.

This commitment is reflected in the promotion of respectful and inclusive work environments in which all people are treated with dignity, can develop professionally, and have equal opportunities in selection, training, and promotion processes, offering a workplace 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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