Senior Requirements Engineer (m/f/d)
Core
Ensure quality, structure, and traceability of requirements throughout the development lifecycle, linking stakeholder needs to verification and validation.
Role type
Senior Requirements Engineer (Systems Engineering focus)
Builds
Requirements baselines, traceability matrices, management dashboards, and system architecture models
Domain
Defense technology, autonomous unmanned systems, safety-critical systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Requirements elicitation and analysis, Systems Engineering, Jama Connect administration, Cameo Systems Modeler (SysML/MBSE), Requirements Management Plans, traceability management, impact analysis, metrics definition, cross-functional facilitation
Preferred skills
Experience in regulated or safety-critical environments, configuration and change management
Technologies
Jama Connect, Cameo Systems Modeler, SysML, MBSE
Responsibilities
Elicit, analyze, structure, and document stakeholder, customer, system, and subsystem requirements; Translate operational scenarios and regulatory requirements into verifiable requirements; Ensure requirements quality regarding clarity, consistency, completeness, atomicity, and testability; Maintain requirements hierarchy and facilitate resolution of conflicting objectives; Ensure end-to-end traceability from stakeholder needs through requirements and architecture to verification and validation; Create traceability overviews, status reports, and maturity assessments; Prepare and facilitate requirements reviews and cross-functional alignment meetings; Create, approve, and manage requirements and architecture baselines; Define and monitor baseline processes, approval criteria, and change rules; Conduct impact analyses for changes affecting requirements, architecture, interfaces, schedules, costs, and risks; Create, implement, and continuously improve the Requirements Management Plan; Create and maintain Requirements Engineering guidelines, templates, quality criteria, and work instructions; Develop and maintain architecture and modeling guidelines together with System Architects; Advise project teams on Requirements Engineering, Systems Engineering, and the effective use of tools; Tool ownership for Jama and Cameo; Provide functional administration and continuous improvement of Jama Connect; Manage users, roles, permissions, projects, and relevant configurations; Maintain requirements structures, relationships, workflows, reviews, baselines, views, and reports; Support and enable Jama users through consultation, training, and guidance materials; Ensure data quality and methodological consistency in Jama; Provide functional ownership and continuous improvement of Cameo Systems Modeler and the relevant Cameo environment; Define and maintain modeling and architecture standards in Cameo; Support the development and maintenance of models, packages, relationships, interfaces, and architecture artefacts; Ensure consistency between requirements in Jama and the system architecture and models in Cameo; Work with IT and tool owners on integrations, updates, and continuous improvements to the tool landscape; Management reporting and Systems Engineering; Develop and maintain management dashboards providing transparent insight into the status, quality, coverage, maturity, and risks of the requirements and architecture baselines; Define suitable metrics and evaluation criteria together with Project Management, Engineering, and senior management; Prepare metrics on requirements progress, traceability coverage, review and approval status, open and overdue requirements, change volume, baseline status, and verification and validation coverage; Analyse trends, bottlenecks, dependencies, and quality risks, and derive appropriate measures; Prepare regular status reports and decision-ready management materials; Present status, risks, required actions, and improvement proposals to management, project leadership, and technical stakeholders; Ensure that dashboards are based on reliable, consistent, and traceable data from Jama and Cameo; Support the definition and analysis of system functions, system boundaries, interfaces, and technical constraints; Contribute to the decomposition and refinement of requirements at subsystem and component level; Support System Architecture in evaluating solution alternatives, dependencies, and conflicting objectives; Contribute to architecture and design decisions and assess their impact on requirements and verification evidence; Support system integration, verification, and validation, including the assignment of appropriate verification methods; Review consistency between requirements, architecture models, interface descriptions, and test or verification artefacts; Collaborate with Product Management, Systems Engineering, Software, Hardware, Integration, Test, Safety, Security, Quality, and other specialist functions; Facilitate cross-functional alignments to clarify requirements, interfaces, responsibilities, dependencies, and outstanding decisions; Document outcomes, decisions, assumptions, and open points, and consistently follow up on agreed actions
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic oversight
