IT Systems Lead

About this role

ROLE HIGHLIGHTS: - IT Systems Lead - Location: Espoo, Finland - Department: IT & Applications - Reports to: Director, IT & Applications - Employment type: Permanent - Workplace model: Hybrid - Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required) WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS: ICEYE’s teams need state-of-the-art collaboration tools, available wherever they work and delivered on highly secured endpoints.

As IT Systems Lead, you’ll lead a team of 7 engineers in Finland and Poland who own our client platform, collaboration and AI systems, and identity management for users in 10+ countries. Your mandate is to turn a setup that grew fast into one consolidated, secure and scalable foundation, in an environment shaped by defence and national security requirements. It’s a role for a leader who can set direction, stay hands-on, and adapt quickly as the business grows.

WHO WE ARE ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space. We deliver persistent monitoring capabilities to detect and respond to changes in any location on Earth. ICEYE owns the world's largest and most advanced SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation. To our customers we provide intelligence with unmatched quality, latency and revisit times, in any weather, day or night. To governments who choose to operate their own constellation we provide this proven capability as a sovereign system.

ICEYE-built constellations serve customers in defence and intelligence, environmental monitoring, insurance and emergency management. We enable fast decisions that contribute to a safer future. Founded and headquartered in Finland, ICEYE operates globally with over 1000 employees across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. YOUR DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES - Own the systems strategy and roadmap across client platforms, AI systems, collaboration systems and identity management, and give the team a consistent technical direction - Lead the consolidation of a fast-grown toolset into a standardised, secure and scalable platform - Keep the client platform highly secure and aligned with industry best practices, adapting systems as business needs change - Keep things running: incident and problem management, escalation, monitoring and SLAs - Embed business continuity, patch management and logging into how systems are built and run - Support security audits, accreditations and certifications - Work with business stakeholders, product teams and neighbouring IT teams (IT Infrastructure, IT Support and Assets, IT Steering and Enablement) to balance priorities, compliance and speed - Own the systems budget, manage suppliers and consultants, and contribute to quarterly financial planning WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR Must haves: - 5+ years leading an IT systems or infrastructure team, with hands-on technical experience - Deep expertise in at least one major collaboration suite (Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace) and tools such as Slack and Atlassian - Strong experience with identity and access management (e.g.