Satellite Planning & Integrated Design Assistant Manager

stc; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

STC in Saudi Arabia seeks an experienced professional to plan and optimize Satellite Services Infrastructure, ensuring capacity, resilience, and alignment with business needs. You will coordinate investment planning, network integration, regulatory compliance, engineering governance, and project delivery.

The role covers defining the rollout roadmap for next-generation satellite technologies, driving modernization, and ensuring service readiness across GEO/MEO/LEO domains, with collaboration

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Telecommunications Engineering or related Engineering field.

Responsibilities

• Prepare annual CAPEX for Satellite Services Infrastructure (GEO, MEO, and LEO).
• Analyze plans to ensure transport and optical network requirements are aligned.
• Coordinate with WBU, CBU, EBU, Royal, STS, Infra to assess forecasts for satellite services.
• Review capacity, utilization and performance reports to ensure adequate capacity and readiness.
• Optimize investments and drive evolution of satellite infra for efficiency, resilience, and coverage.
• Lead rollout planning for next-gen satellite technologies aligned with business priorities.

Education

Bachelor Degree in Telecommunications Engineering or Engineering

Job description

Job Purpose

The role holder is responsible for planning and optimizing Satellite Services Infrastructure to ensure capacity, resilience, performance, and alignment with business requirements. The role holder coordinates investment planning, network integration, regulatory compliance, engineering governance, and project delivery to ensure reliable and future-ready satellite services. The role holder shall carry out his duties in accordance with the stipulated business policies and procedure

Job Purpose

The role holder is responsible for planning and optimizing Satellite Services Infrastructure to ensure capacity, resilience, performance, and alignment with business requirements. The role holder coordinates investment planning, network integration, regulatory compliance, engineering governance, and project delivery to ensure reliable and future-ready satellite services. The role holder shall carry out his duties in accordance with the stipulated business policies and procedure

Job Responsibility

• Prepare the annual CAPEX for Satellite Services Infrastructure (GEO, MEO, and LEO)
• Analyze Satellite Services Infrastructure plans to ensure transport, and optical network requirements are aligned.
• Coordinate with all stakeholders teams including WBU, CBU, EBU, Royal, STS, and Infra to assess voice and broadband project forecasts for Satellite services.
• Review network capacity, utilization, and performance reports for Satellite to ensure adequate capacity and service readiness.
• Optimize investments and drive the evolution of Satellite services infrastructure to improve network efficiency, resilience, and coverage.
• Lead the planning and execution of the rollout roadmap for approved next-generation satellite technologies, ensuring alignment with business priorities and network transformation objectives.
• Develop and maintain the Satellite Services Infrastructure strategy, including modernization, expansion, spectrum utilization, and technology evolution.
• Monitor Satellite Services Infrastructure performance and availability, ensuring compliance with service KPIs and implementing optimization plans where required.

Job Responsibility (cont.)

• Oversee the design of GEO/MEO/LEO satellite access and transport networks, including all integration requirements.
• Integrate multi-orbit satellite systems seamlessly with terrestrial infrastructure.
• Support partnerships, drive satellite network improvements, and ensure cross-functional technology alignment to achieve network security, scalability, and future readiness.
• Review standards and ensure regulatory compliance for all satellite projects.
• Coordinate space segment requirements with the related business demand and regulatory teams for satellite projects.
• Develop and govern engineering improvement initiatives that enhance Core and Transport SoWs delivery, minimize PAT rejections, and strengthen data quality and engineering accuracy.
• Maintain and Enhance Data Quality Health Index (DQHI) for CDE’s related to satellite ISOW Systems.
• Solve & track Technology Performance critical cases that are pending with infra departments in coordination with concerned stakeholders.
• End-to-End Tracking, Controlling, and Reporting functionalities for the integrated SOWs till PAT/HO to SEA

Years Of Experience

Above 5 years of experience in a related discipline

Nature Of Experience

Prior experience in Satellite Services Infrastructure within the Telecommunication industry

Job Band

Employee

Skills

Education

Bachelor Degree in Telecommunications Engineering or Engineering

Additional Education

Certifications