Job description

Job Description
Objective: Establish a technical and operational leadership team with clear accountability for autonomous ground stations, spacecraft mission operations, flight dynamics, mission control, and Space Situational Awareness. Introduction Wipro Innovation Networks is the innovation arm of Wipro, focused on cutting-edge research, foundational models, and application building across emerging technologies. It brings together engineers, research scientists, domain experts, and product teams to incubate solutions that help clients modernize core operations and build future-ready digital capabilities. We are seeking a Technical Director to own the integrated technical vision for spacecraft mission systems, system engineering, autonomous ground stations and Space Situational Awareness within the Space Tech practice. The role provides technical governance, mission assurance and architectural oversight across all space-operations functions, while empowering each domain lead to independently own and execute the respective specialist area. The ideal candidate combines strategic technology leadership with hands-on mission and systems-engineering judgement. The role sets the technical direction, leads integrated mission reviews, governs architecture and risk, builds customer and partner confidence, and ensures the team can take capabilities from research and engineering through operational deployment. ͏

Key Responsibilities
You will be responsible for future vision, research roadmap, technology bets, autonomous operations, SSA innovation, IP creation, patents, and commercial solution development and customer implementation for Ground Station, Mission Control, SSA areas. Technical Vision & Mission Leadership
• Define the technical strategy and reference architecture for autonomous ground stations, spacecraft mission operations, mission control and SSA.
• Govern the integrated mission operating model and cross-domain interfaces across planning, commanding, telemetry, flight dynamics, ground-station scheduling, SSA monitoring and anomaly response, with domain leads accountable for execution within their respective areas.
• Serve as the senior technical authority for technology choices, technical risk and mission assurance.




• Lead integrated mission reviews, architecture reviews, operational readiness reviews and major anomaly or incident reviews.
• Translate customer mission objectives into phased capability roadmaps, investment priorities and measurable outcomes. Systems Engineering & Mission Assurance
• Own end-to-end requirements, interface control, verification strategy, validation evidence and configuration baselines across space and ground segments.
• Own the structured research and implementation roadmap across autonomous operations, mission intelligence, SSA, simulation platform and AI Enabled Ground Operations.
• Establish safety, reliability, cybersecurity, resilience, autonomy and human-oversight principles for mission-critical operations.
• Ensure the system supports graceful degradation, fail-safe command paths, operational contingencies and auditable decision-making.
• Drive the use of digital twins, simulation, testbeds and operational data to validate mission concepts before deployment.
• Approve technical debt, exceptions, waivers and risk mitigations for production mission services. Customer, Partner & Ecosystem Leadership
• Act as the senior technical interface for satellite operators, space agencies, defence users, ground-station service providers, sensor providers and strategic partners.
• Run technology incubation, proof-of-concepts, simulation environments, and testbeds to validate scientific hypotheses and operational concepts.
• Build a partner ecosystem spanning spacecraft platforms, mission-control software, ground networks, SSA sensors, cloud/edge platforms and specialist analytics.
• Represent the practice in industry forums and technical discussions on autonomous operations, space-domain awareness and responsible space sustainability.
• Shape proposals, demonstrations,



solution blueprints and commercial offerings for autonomous mission operations and SSA. People & Operating Model
• Lead and coach the technical team, creating clear accountability across flight dynamics, spacecraft operations, control-centre, ground-station and SSA domains.
• Establish engineering governance, design authority, technical career paths, knowledge management and succession plans.
• Promote a safety-first culture in which operators retain appropriate authority over high-consequence actions. ͏ Desirable Skills & Experience
• 18–25+ years of progressive experience across spacecraft systems, satellite mission operations, ground segments, mission control, flight dynamics or SSA.
• Proven leadership of spacecraft or constellation missions from concept and development through commissioning and routine operations.
• Deep understanding of systems engineering, mission assurance, Telemetry Tracking & Command, command safety, flight dynamics, ground-station networks and SSA workflows.
• Experience in establishing operating models, technical organizations, control centres, partner ecosystems or mission services.
• Strong knowledge of autonomy, machine learning, digital twins, simulation, distributed systems, cybersecurity and resilient mission-critical architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to lead customer-facing technical engagements and communicate complex trade-offs to executives, operators and engineers.
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Aerospace, Astronautics, Space Systems, Electronics, Communications, Computer Science, Physics or a related discipline. Advanced postgraduate qualifications are highly desirable. ͏ ͏ Reinvent your world. We are building a contemporary Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA
- as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention. Come to Wipro. Realize your ambitions. Applications from people with disabilities are explicitly welcome.

📌 Technical Director (Bengaluru)
🏢 Wipro
📍 Bengaluru