Job Description - Radar Systems Requirements Manager (00125907)
Job Title: Radar Systems Requirements Manager
Location: Cowes
Salary: Circa £65,000+ depending on skills and experience plus bonus scheme
What you’ll be doing:
* Leading and managing requirements activities across the engineering lifecycle, applying ISO 15288 principles to ensure traceability from definition to validation
* Owning and maintaining the requirements database, ensuring it supports effective decomposition, verification, and specification across system levels
* Defining and implementing robust requirements management processes, plans, and database schemas to meet project and customer needs
* Administer access, training, and support for requirements tools (e.g. DOORS Next) and ensure good practice is followed across the team
* Facilitating the integration of tools and data exchange with third parties, ensuring configuration control and data integrity
* Monitoring requirements stability, generating key metrics, and supporting the production of requirement documentation and specifications
Your skills and experiences:
Essential skills:
* Expert-level knowledge of Systems Engineering principles, with strong systems thinking and holistic approaches to requirement definition and management
* Familiarity with key standards related to requirements specification (e.g. ISO 15288, ISO 12207, ISO 29148, IEEE 1016)
* Proven experience in requirements management tools (e.g. IBM DOORS Next) and configuration control
* In-depth understanding of the full engineering lifecycle, including lifecycle models such as Waterfall and Agile, and tools like JIRA
* Educated to degree level (or equivalent experience) in a STEM discipline or equivalent experience
* Experience using high-level design methodologies (e.g. UAF, NAF, TOGAF, SysML, UML) with a focus on requirements integration
* Awareness of the defence industry landscape and current UK government strategic priorities
The Future Radar team:
Join us in shaping the Future of Radar Technology, we are evolving our radar portfolio enhancing our existing and developing brand-new radar products to address emerging and future threats in the realm of Future Air Dominance. With strong collaboration from our customers and investment in talent, our strategy is to stay at the forefront of defence innovation.
As a Radar Systems Requirements Manager, you will support our leading Radar products, ensuring consistency and traceability across the full engineering lifecycle—from definition through to integration, acceptance, and support. This role will take ownership of the requirements database and drive continuous improvement in related methodologies and tools, particularly around the exploitation of DOORS Next.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.
We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Closing Date: 22nd April 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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