Senior Requirements Engineer

Overview

Location: Ottawa, Canada

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

For decades, Ottawa has been a global technology leader. Canada’s capital holds one of the brightest and most diverse technological ecosystems in North America. Voted as Canada’s best place to live 2017 by Maclean's, Ottawa offers a low cost of living with a high quality of life. The Thales Ottawa office has been a major supplier and long-term trusted partner to DND, enabling the Canadian Armed Forces and the Canadian Coast Guard to achieve mission success.

Position: Senior Requirements Engineer. This role is part of the requirements management team, central to AJISS program success, ensuring that all contractual, technical, and regulatory requirements are captured, traced, verified, and controlled throughout the vessel support lifecycle.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Requirements Engineers 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 ensure we build systems that are fit for purpose and not merely technically compliant.

• Lead the elicitation, analysis, and documentation of system, subsystem, and interface requirements. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure requirements are aligned with end-user needs.
• Ensure that requirements are unambiguous, feasible, testable, and verifiable. Develop and maintain requirements specifications and related artefacts in the approved 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 sign‑off activities with engineering and customer representatives.
• Manage requirements baselines and changes, including impact analysis and configuration control.

This role leads the technical implementation of requirements management processes and tools. Typical duties include:

• Designing and maintaining the requirements architecture in IBM DOORS/Polarion ALM. Building and maintaining the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) with bidirectional links.
• Configuring tool modules, views, attributes, and automated compliance reports. Designing & developing the points-of-contact between DOORS, IPESA, DRMIS, and PfMS. Leading complex requirements decomposition and contract amendment impact analysis.
• Creating technical procedures for requirements flowdown and verification method assignment. Mentoring intermediate and junior team members on tool usage and requirements best practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• University or college degree in engineering or a related discipline.
• At least 12 years of professional experience in the design and integration of complex systems in commercial and/or military domains.
• At least 5 years of professional experience with a major focus on requirements.
• Ability to succeed in cross-functional/multidisciplinary teams.

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 preferred.
• IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) - Foundation or Advanced
• INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional (SEP) or Associate (ASEP)
• ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148
• INCOSE SE Handbook

Special Position Requirements

Full time, standard business hours. Possibility of travel to east or west coast sites for technical support / installation onboard ships in dock.

What We Offer

• Thales provides an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 24 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents, including:
• Company paid Extended Health, Dental, HSA, Life, AD&D, Short-term Disability, Cancer Care Program, travel insurance, Employee Assistance Plan and Well-Being program.
• Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP, DCPP, TFSA) with a company contribution and a match to a DCPP, with no vesting period.
• Company paid holidays, vacation days, and paid sick leave.
• Voluntary Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Long-Term Disability.
• Employee Discounts on home, auto, and gym membership.

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The reference Total Target Compensation (TTC) market range for this position, inclusive of annual base salary and the variable compensation target, is between 110,000.00 - 140,000 CDN annually. This reflects industry pay ranges and is influenced by factors including career path, competencies, skills, performance, program requirements, and internal equity.

Thales may offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s status protected by local, state, or federal law.

AI in Recruitment

We use artificial intelligence–enabled tools as part of our recruitment process to support activities such as candidate discovery, résumé matching, and interview scheduling. These tools may help screen and assess applications and recommend potential matches based on the requirements within the job description. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters. Artificial intelligence does not make hiring decisions on our behalf.

Thales is an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Thales is committed to providing accommodations in all parts of the interview process. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of providing an accessible candidate experience.

This position requires direct or indirect access to hardware, software or technical information controlled under the Canadian Export Control List, the Canadian Controlled Goods Program, the Canadian Industrial Security Program, the US ITAR and/or EAR. All applicants must be eligible or able to obtain authorization for such access including eligibility to the Canadian Controlled Goods Program and able to obtain a Canadian NATO Secret clearance.

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