Requirements Management Engineer

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Key Information

Job title: Requirements Management Engineer 

Salary: up to £65k (depending on skills & experience) 

Grade: Band 3 

Contract type: TfL, permanent                             

Reference: SF1013  

Contract details: Full time                         

Location: Stratford/Hybrid* 

Application closing date: Wednesday 12th November @23:59 

** Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements

Overview of role

As a Requirements Engineer, you shall provide technical expertise and advice to support the development and delivery of requirements engineering activities. This shall be achieved by establishing and systematically documenting the associated definition of customer/user needs and requirements early in the development cycle, followed by design synthesis, change and configuration control, systems integration, verification and validation to enable the successful and safe refurbishment, renewal, improvement and/or extension, etc., of TfL assets. A systematic approach shall be deployed in considering the complete problem and the required outcome, including cost and schedule, performance, testing, manufacturing, training, operations, and disposal.

To be considered for the role, you will ideally have experience in:

• Applying requirements engineering processes and activities.
• Applying supporting systems engineering processes and activities.
• Planning requirements engineering activities.
• Eliciting requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Practising a variety of different requirement elicitation techniques.
• Performing functional analysis.
• Defining requirements at different levels of business and system interest.
• Defining requirements that comply with standards and good practice.
• Establishing and assessing requirements traceability.
• Planning verification and validation activities.
• Defining verification and validation criteria.
• Assessing verification and validation responses.
• Documenting requirements specifications and related reports.
• Measuring and reporting on requirements related metrics.
• Utilising requirements management tools.
• Interacting with risk, assumption, issue & dependency management processes.
• Interacting with configuration and change control management processes.
• Working on major projects and complex systems.
• Working independently with limited guidance and quickly understand complex issues and tasks.
• Working to tight deadlines in a high-pressure environment.

Our culture is open and collaborative where we encourage positive challenge, original thought, and passionate input. As a Requirements Engineer it is also equally important for you to contribute to the TfL’s Vision, Values and Strategy.

Key Accountabilities

• Work with projects across TfL to identify their needs, translating and moulding them into formal, verifiable requirements.
• Eliciting requirements from multiple stakeholders with different viewpoints
• Maintaining requirements all through the project lifecycle, from concept to acceptance into service
• Be proactive in managing changes and highlighting their impact.
• Working with project teams from across TfL, supporting them in developing requirements and maintaining the requirements set in the IBM DOORS database
• Help to develop TfL’s strategic direction for requirements management, ensuring the business has the tools and processes in place to maximise value from the requirements process.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Skills

• Ability to elicit ‘system needs’ from diverse stakeholder groups and translate them into formal clear, coherent and verifiable requirements (Essential)
• Ability to work as part of a project delivery team to refine and manage requirements, acceptance criteria and traceability (Essential)
• Ability to develop key requirements related products including system requirements specifications and requirements management plans (Desirable)
• Ability to assess the impact of change through requirement tracing (Desirable)
• Ability to resolve and negotiate requirements conflicts and establish acceptance criteria for inter-connected requirements (Desirable)
• Ability to assess the verification and validation of requirements, assembling evidence in support of verification submissions (Desirable).

Knowledge

• A good understanding of elicitation, decomposition and traceability methodologies appropriate to the management of requirement hierarchies (Essential)
• An awareness of the role of good acceptance criteria in the definition of verifiable requirements (Essential)
• Good understanding of general systems engineering principles and their relationship to requirements management (Desirable)

Experience

• Experience of eliciting stakeholder requirements and managing requirement sets through the full project lifecycle on a major programme or several smaller projects (Essential)
• Extensive experience using IBM DOORS to create and manage requirements for projects (Essential)
• Experience of applying the outcomes of requirements analysis through design, test and commissioning stages (Desirable)

Application Process 

Please apply using your CV and answering the screening questions provided. 

We recommend that you consider the motivations, skills, knowledge, and experience required for this role and ensure your CV outlines where you meet these criteria. PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. 
 
Benefits  

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow.  Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below:
 

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel
   

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.