Senior Requirements Engineer

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. Today, 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.

Ottawa, On., Halifax N.S., Fredericton, N.B., Victoria, B.C., (CAN.), Hybrid

Position Summary

Thales Canada, Defence & Security is engaged in supporting the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) through its In-Service Support (ISS) Programs. Between the AOPS & JSS In-Service Support (AJISS) and Minor Warships & Auxiliary Vessels (MWAV) programs, Thales Canada provides support to over 70% of the RCN fleet. Thales Canada is leveraging cutting edge solutions to deliver preventative and corrective maintenance, Integrated Logistics Support (ILS), Program Management, Engineering and Lifecycle Material Management (LCMM), and new capabilities to numerous platforms.

Thales requires a Senior Requirements Engineer to join the requirements management team. The requirements management team is central to AJISS program success, ensuring that all contractual, technical, and regulatory requirements are systematically captured, traced, verified, and controlled throughout the vessel support lifecycle. We are building a dedicated team to establish enterprise-wide requirements visibility, support performance incentive achievement (SRVF), and maintain audit-ready compliance documentation.

You will join the Requirements Management team located in Ottawa, Canada, working in a collaborative environment with Canada/DND stakeholders, engineering teams, and integrated project teams to deliver mission-critical requirements management capabilities.

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 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 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 will 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…