Intermediate Systems Engineer
Seeking a specialization in Requirement Management to ensure that contractual, technical, and regulatory requirements are systematically captured, traced, verified, and controlled to deliver Engineering work products through all stages of the EC process.
Regulatory Compliance Requirement
This position requires direct or indirect access to hardware, software or technical information controlled under the Canadian Export Control List and/or the US the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All applicants must be eligible or able to obtain authorization for such access.
Key Areas of Responsibility
The Systems Engineer with specialization in Requirement Management will strive to understand the end-user’s needs, limitations, and concept of employment for the system and ensure that they are accurately captured, analyzed, documented, and maintained throughout the system lifecycle. They play a significant role in ensuring that we build systems which are fit for purpose and not merely technically compliant.
The essential functions and responsibilities of a requirements engineer include:
Lead the elicitation, analysis, and documentation of system, subsystem, and interface requirements;
Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure requirements and related work products are consistent with the needs, desires, and concerns of the end-users;
Ensure that requirements are unambiguous, feasible, testable, and verifiable;
Develop and maintain requirements specifications and related artefacts within the requirements management tool;
Ensure bidirectional traceability between requirements and architecture/design, verification, and validation artefacts;
Perform / Review requirements decomposition / fan-out, including coverage and gap analysis;
Plan and participate in requirements reviews, walkthroughs, and signoff activities with engineering and customer representatives.
Manage requirements baselines and changes, including impact analysis and configuration control.
For this specific project, typical duties will include:
Contribute to the design of the requirements tracking architecture
Configuring tool modules, views, attributes, and automated compliance reports
Writing, decomposing, reviewing, and maintaining up-to-date requirements
Reviewing impact analyses and proposed changes to requirements
Assisting subject matter experts in producing detailed, high-quality requirements
Basic Qualifications
Skills and Abilities:
At least 4 to 6 years of professional experience in the design and integration of complex systems in commercial and/or military domains.
At least 2 years of professional experience with a major focus on requirements.
Ability to succeed in cross-functional/multidisciplinary teams.
Ability to obtain clearances as specified under the Regulatory Compliance section, below.
Education:
Preferred Qualifications
In addition to the minimum professional experience specified above, experience in any of the following areas would be considered an asset:
Requirements management tools such as DOORS and/or Polarion;
Familiarity with DXL;
Scripting and Integration technologies - REST APIs, XML/ReqIF exchange formats, Python, Database queries;
Experience in the in-service-support of naval platforms;
P. Eng designation is considered an asset.
Physical Demands
Standard office work.
Special Position Requirements
Full time, standard business hours. Possibility of travel to east or west coast sites for technical support / installation / inspection onboard ships in dock.
40 hours per week
Hybrid position – a mix of working from home
