Location: Ottawa, Halifax, Fredericton, Victoria, Mill Bay (Canada) — Hybrid

Position Summary

Thales Canada, Defence & Security supports the Royal Canadian Navy through In-Service Support programs. Thales provides preventative and corrective maintenance, integrated logistics support, program management, engineering, lifecycle material management, and new capabilities to numerous platforms. The Requirements Management team is central to program success, ensuring contractual, technical, and regulatory requirements are captured, traced, verified, and controlled throughout the vessel support lifecycle.

Thales requires a Senior Requirements Engineer to join the requirements management team in Ottawa, working 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 end-user needs and ensure they are accurately captured, analyzed, documented, and maintained throughout the system lifecycle. Essential functions include:

Lead elicitation, analysis and documentation of system, subsystem, and interface requirements; collaborate with stakeholders to ensure requirements meet end-user needs.
Ensure 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, coverage and gap analysis; plan and participate in reviews, walkthroughs and sign-off activities.
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 and building the Requirements Traceability Matrix with bidirectional links.
Configuring tool modules, views, attributes, and automated compliance reports; designing and developing interfaces 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.

Objective

Provide products and customer solutions that are consistent with stakeholders' needs and policies, while continuously enhancing engineering competitiveness.

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 and multidisciplinary teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in any of the following is an asset:

Requirements management tools such as DOORS and/or Polarion.
Familiarity with DXL.
Scripting and integration technologies — REST APIs, XML/ReqIF, Python, database queries.
Experience in in-service support of naval platforms.
P.Eng designation is preferred.
IREB CPRE (Foundation or Advanced), INCOSE SEP/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 or installation onboard ships in dock. This position requires direct or indirect access to controlled hardware, software or technical information under Canadian and U.S. export and controlled goods regulations. Applicants must be eligible or able to obtain authorization for access, including eligibility to the Canadian Controlled Goods Program and ability to obtain a Canadian NATO Secret clearance.

What We Offer

Extensive benefits program for full-time employees (24+ hours/week) and eligible dependents: 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 company contribution and match to DCPP, no vesting period.
Company-paid holidays, vacation, and paid sick leave.
Voluntary life, AD&D, critical illness, long-term disability options.
Employee discounts (home, auto, gym).

The reference Total Target Compensation (TTC) range for this position is Total Target Cash 110,000.00 - 140,000 CAD annually. Thales may offer additional benefits and compensation depending on circumstances.

Thales is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusivity and is committed to providing accommodations in the interview process. Applicants requiring accommodation should advise upon invitation to interview. Accommodation information will be treated confidentially.

Senior Requirements Engineer