Requirements Manager – Transit Projects

SYSTRA Canada is part of the SYSTRA group, an international consulting and engineering group, a world leader in the design of transport infrastructures. SYSTRA Canada is an engineering and consulting firm whose primary focus is to offer transportation solutions, whether for passengers or goods: feasibility studies of building a new railway line, increasing the capacity of the existing infrastructure, privatization of a railway.

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Context

We are seeking a senior systems engineer to serve as our Requirements Lead, owning the development and governance of the Requirements Management Plan across a complex rail/transit infrastructure program. You will drive end‑to‑end requirements capture, allocation, traceability, and change control, ensuring alignment with the Project Agreement, applicable standards, and stakeholder needs while guiding multidisciplinary engineering and design teams.

Missions/Main Duties

As the Requirements Lead, you will

• establish and maintain our requirements management framework and the associated Integration and Assurance processes. This includes defining the plan, methods, and tools that govern how requirements are captured from the Project Agreement, standards, and stakeholder inputs.
• oversee structured capture and decomposition of requirements into system, subsystem, and component levels, ensuring complete allocation and bi‑directional traceability within DOORS.
• Day to day, you will manage change control of requirements, administer the configuration baseline, and produce traceability and status reports that inform design reviews and support verification, validation, and acceptance activities.
• A critical part of the role is coaching and supporting engineers and design teams in best practices, resolving allocation or interpretation issues, and ensuring quality and consistency of requirements artifacts throughout the lifecycle.
• responsible for the delivery of all aspects of requirements management for the consortium’s works and infrastructure.
• monitor the review of designs with delivery teams to ensure design specifications, guides, standards, and work processes are compliant to requirements and standards
• contribute to the project execution plans in conjunction with the delivery team
• review changes in incoming/emerging standards and corporate requirements to provide input on potential impacts to existing projects
• ensure deliverables are produced according to the project schedule with high quality
• support the creation of a work environment that fosters openness, trust, communication, teamwork, empowerment, innovation, and satisfaction
• build, strengthen, guide and mentor the Technical Project team

Profile/Skills

Education: Bachelor of Engineering or comparable technical degree

Years of experience: 10+ years of experience in requirements engineering for major rail, transit, or infrastructure projects.

Technical competencies:

• Familiarity with IEEE/ISO/IEC 15288, IEEE/ISO/IEC 29148, and EN 50126
• Experience with IBM DOORS as a user (administrator preferred) managing multiple subsystems
• Demonstrated experience establishing and executing requirements management plans covering capture, allocation, traceability, and change control.
• Strong working knowledge of IBM DOORS or similar requirements management (RM) tools.
• Proven ability to coordinate multiple contributors and cross‑disciplinary teams.
• Senior systems engineering background with significant requirements management experience.
• Formal training in requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS) is an asset.

SYSTRA Canada is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that values applications from all and offers employment equity based on the merits and abilities of candidates and personnel.

Note: In this description, the masculine gender is used for easy reading purposes and includes the feminine.

We use AI-enabled tools in our recruitment platform (iCIMS) for tasks like resume parsing and candidate matching. These tools do not make hiring decisions; all applications are reviewed by a human recruiter, and final decisions are made by our hiring team.

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