Principal Systems Engineer

Everi Pty; City of Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

6 weeks annual leave

Volunteer and representation leave

Flex public holidays

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a senior Systems Engineering lead to establish and govern a requirements management framework across large projects in Australia. You will administer DOORS, manage interfaces, and ensure end-to-end traceability while coordinating across venues and delivery partners.

You will apply best practices across the lifecycle, supporting V&V, configuration control, MBSE, and system architectures aligned to event delivery needs. Hybrid work options are available.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience in systems engineering on large-scale programs.
• Experience across infrastructure, technology, or major events.
• Proven ability to manage requirements and interfaces in multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong understanding of lifecycle, V&V, configuration management, and MBSE.

Responsibilities

• Lead establishment and governance of a requirements management framework across projects by administering the requirements database (e.g., DOORS) including its structure, controls, versioning and integration with end-to-end traceability.
• Coordinate systems engineering and integration across multiple venues and domains by defining and managing interfaces between systems and delivery partners.
• Apply systems engineering best practices across the lifecycle by managing requirements, interfaces, verification and validation, and configuration control, aligned to ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288.
• Engage with stakeholders by facilitating requirements workshops and integration forums, providing evidence-based status and risk updates.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Stakeholder engagement

MBSE

Verification & Validation

Tools

IBM DOORS

Job description

Job Description

• Lead the establishment and governance of a requirements management framework across projects by administering and optimizing the requirements database (e.g., DOORS), including its structure, controls, versioning, and integration, while ensuring end-to-end traceability, enforcing quality standards and review processes, and supporting stakeholders through training, coaching, and troubleshooting.
• Coordinate systems engineering and integration across multiple venues and domains by defining and managing interfaces between systems and delivery partners, addressing cross-venue dependencies and risks, and supporting integration planning, staging, readiness, and operational transition.
• Apply systems engineering best practices across the lifecycle by managing requirements, interfaces, verification and validation, and configuration control, ensuring alignment with recognized standards (e.g., ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288), and supporting the development of system architectures and concepts of operations aligned to event delivery needs.
• Engage and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders-including venue delivery teams, technology providers, and government agencies-by facilitating requirements workshops and integration forums, providing clear, evidence-based advice on status and risks, and acting as a key interface between engineering, operations, and program management teams.
• Flexible work arrangements, including alternative start/finish times, part-time, job-sharing and hybrid work options
• Purchase up to 6 weeks additional annual leave per year
• Volunteer and representation leave
• Flex public holidays - swap Easter or other holidays for ones that suit you better

About the Employer

Come grow with us.

AECOM is involved in the most interesting and challenging transport infrastructure projects that are shaping the landscape around us and defining the future of Australia and NZ. We live and breathe culture, making sure our lives are integrated with our professional development and we actively enjoy the journey.

Our teams work collaboratively across the world and our transportation experts leverage local knowledge and global capability to help clients navigate challenges and build a better world. Our expertise in planning, designing, and managing transportation systems allows us to help public and private clients move people and goods in smarter, more advanced, and sustainable ways.

Everyone belongs at AECOM

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public-and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.

About the Candidate

• Minimum 10 years' experience in Systems Engineering on complex, large-scale programs across infrastructure, technology, or major events.
• Strong expertise in requirements management, particularly using IBM DOORS (administration and advanced user capability).
• Proven ability to manage requirements and interfaces in multi-stakeholder, integrated environments, handling complexity and competing priorities.
• Solid understanding of the full systems engineering lifecycle, including V&V, configuration management, and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).