Requirements Management Systems Engineer

Salary: £76,000 - 94,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience in requirements management and requirements engineering within a complex engineering environment.
• Experience analysing and managing stakeholder requirements.
• Experience developing system and subsystem requirements.
• A strong understanding of good requirements practice, including quality, traceability, verification, and change management.
• Experience using requirements management tools such as IBM DOORS or equivalent.
• Understanding of the relationship between requirements, functional architecture, interfaces, and verification and validation activities.
• Experience developing non-functional requirements, such as safety, security, manufacturing, or supportability requirements.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
• A proactive approach, with the ability to take ownership of technical work and deliver outcomes collaboratively.
• Experience leading or coordinating requirements activities across multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience scoping and defining requirements work, such as producing Requirements Management Plans or similar governance documentation.
• Broader systems engineering experience across the engineering lifecycle.
• Experience working within Electro-Optic (EO) or other complex sensing systems domains.

Responsibilities:

• Analyse and manage stakeholder requirements, ensuring they are clearly understood, traceable and aligned to programme objectives.
• Develop and maintain EO system and subsystem requirements and requirements sets throughout the engineering lifecycle.
• Use requirements management tools, such as DOORS, to maintain requirements baselines, traceability, and change control.
• Support the development of functional architectures and ensure requirements are appropriately allocated to system elements.
• Support interface definition and management activities, ensuring interfaces are clearly specified and traceable.
• Support verification and validation (V&V) planning and activities through the development of clear, testable requirements.
• Develop and manage non-functional requirements, including areas such as safety, security, manufacturability, and supportability.
• Communicate recommendations, progress, dependencies, and risks effectively to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure requirements remain aligned with system design and programme needs.
• Scope, define and plan requirements activities and documentation where required, including Requirements Management Plans and associated governance artefacts.

Technologies:

• IBM
• Support
• Security

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We are Leonardo, a global leader in Aerospace, Defence, and Security, headquartered in Italy, with over 53,000 people worldwide including 8,500 across 9 UK sites. We offer a comprehensive, company-funded benefits package designed to support wellbeing, career development, and work-life balance, including generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year, an award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution, free mental health and financial advice, bonus eligibility for employees at management level and below, access to 4,000+ online courses, a referral programme, flexible benefits worth up to 500 annually, and flexible hours with hybrid working options. We are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace where diversity drives innovation and better outcomes. The role is based in Edinburgh and is permanent, full time, with onsite hybrid working.

last updated 36 week of 2026