Brederode, L.R.L.R.BrederodeMARASSI, AlessandroAlessandroMARASSIRIGGI, SimoneSimoneRIGGI2020-03-302020-03-302015978-3-95450-148-9http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/23712The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the world's largest radio telescope once it is complete and will use hundreds of thousands of receivers, spanning Africa and Australia to survey the sky in unprecedented detail. The SKA will be ground breaking in many respects such as image resolution, sensitivity, survey speed, data processing and size to name a few. The SKA Telescope Manager Consortium is currently designing the SKA Phase 1 (SKA1) Telescope Manager Element that will orchestrate the SKA Observatory and associated telescopes. In this paper, we report on the current status of the SKA1 Telescope Manager pre-construction project, the development process and its high-level architecture.ELETTRONICOenConference paper10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2015-MOA3O01https://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/ICALEPCS2015/FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA