Lead Product Engineer / Architect

About the role

Deloitte Space is expanding flight‑proven satellite cybersecurity capabilities and managed services into the commercial space market. Building on flight heritage from Deloitte‑1, this role will help scale cyber‑resilient solutions for emerging space companies, satellite operators, primes, and large constellation operators. The Lead Product Engineer / Architect will serve as the senior technical authority for the offering, working as a peer to the Lead Product Manager, shaping technical vision, architecture, engineering standards, and delivery roadmap across cyber, software, hardware, AI, space, ground, and user segments.

Responsibilities

• Own the target architecture, interfaces, trust boundaries, and design patterns across space, ground, and user segments, embedding security by design throughout.
• Serve as the senior technical authority for release readiness, engineering standards, and architecture decisions that protect system integrity and mission outcomes.
• Lead technical integration across cyber, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, and systems teams to ensure implementation consistency and transition capabilities from research to production.
• Productize solutions for repeatable deployment across client satellites, constellation profiles, and commercial space environments as the offering grows.
• Guide system‑level testing and validation across integration, security, mission readiness, and operational acceptance, including failure analysis, root‑cause resolution, and compliance‑aligned delivery controls.
• Travel up to 50 % of the time, based on client and industry needs.

Skills

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product.
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships.
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 10 + years of experience as a product engineer, solution architect, systems architect, technical product leader, or similar role delivering cyber, aerospace, space, embedded, or mission‑critical systems.
• Experience delivering multidisciplinary cyber and/or space systems into production and operations.
• Experience designing secure architectures across cloud, on‑premises, hybrid, and space/embedded environments.
• Experience authoring reference architectures, design patterns, or platforms adopted by multiple teams and operating within NIST, Authority to Operate, STIG, or CMMC compliance requirements.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Preferred:

• Experience taking a product or platform to market through pilots, co‑development, or first‑of‑kind deployments with external clients.
• Experience with satellite mission operations or aerospace delivery environments.
• Experience with embedded and real‑time systems integration.
• Experience with artificial intelligence and machine learning model deployment pipelines in constrained environments.
• Experience with Space Attack Research and Tactic Analysis threat frameworks.
• Active security clearance at the Secret level or higher.

Benefits

• Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to program rules and individual/organizational performance.