Senior Requirements Engineer

Thales Avionics, Inc. (AGS); Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Thales Canada Defence & Security is seeking a Senior Requirements Engineer in Ottawa. The role supports RC Navy programs and AJISS, focusing on capturing, tracing, verifying and controlling contractual and technical requirements across the vessel lifecycle.

You will work with government stakeholders, DND, and engineering teams to establish enterprise‑wide requirements visibility, drive compliance, and ensure high‑quality artefacts. Hybrid work in Ottawa is offered.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in cross‑functional and multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities within a structured engineering environment.
• At least 10 years of professional experience in design and integration of complex systems in commercial and/or military domains.
• At least 6 years of professional experience with a primary focus on requirement engineering activities.
• University or college degree in engineering or a related discipline.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both written and oral.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, and document system, subsystem, and interface requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure requirements reflect operational needs and constraints.
• Ensure requirements are unambiguous, feasible, testable, and verifiable.
• Develop and maintain requirements specifications and artefacts in a requirement management tool.
• Ensure bidirectional traceability between requirements and architecture, design, verification, and validation artefacts.
• Lead requirements reviews, walkthroughs, and sign‑off activities with engineering and customer representatives.
• Review proposed requirement changes and support baseline management activities.
• Lead requirements baseline management and change activities, including impact analysis and configuration control.

Skills

Requirements engineering

Cross-functional teamwork

Stakeholder communication

Analytical problem solving

English communication

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Requirement management tool

DOORS

Job description

Location: Ottawa, Canada

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

This role is Hybrid Ottawa

Senior Requirements Engineer

Position Summary

Thales Canada, Defence & Security supports the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) through its In‑Service Support (ISS) programs. Through the Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships & Joint Support Ships (AOPS & JSS) In‑Service Support (AJISS) and the Minor Warships & Auxiliary Vessels (MWAV) programs, Thales Canada provides support to over 70% of the RCN fleet. Thales is leveraging cutting‑edge solutions to deliver preventive and corrective maintenance, Integrated Logistics Support (ILS), Program Management, Engineering, Life‑Cycle Material Management (LCMM), and new capability insertion across multiple naval platforms.

The Requirements Management team is central to AJISS program success, ensuring that all contractual, technical, and regulatory requirements are systematically captured, traced, verified, and controlled throughout the vessel support lifecycle. We are building a dedicated team to establish enterprise‑wide requirements visibility, support performance incentive achievement (SRVF), and maintain audit‑ready compliance documentation.

You will join the Requirements Management team located at a Thales facility in Canada, collaborating with stakeholders within the Government of Canada and the Department of National Defence (DND), as well as engineering and integrated project teams, to deliver mission‑critical requirements management capabilities. In this role, you will gain hands‑on experience on large‑scale naval programs while helping shape requirements that directly impact fleet readiness and operational capability.

Regulatory Compliance Requirement

This position requires direct or indirect access to hardware, software or technical information controlled under the Canadian Export Control List and/or the US the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All applicants must be eligible or able to obtain authorization for such access.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Requirements Engineers strive to understand the end‑user's needs, limitations, and concept of employment for the system and ensure that they are accurately captured, analyzed, documented, and maintained throughout the system lifecycle. At the senior level, the Requirements Engineer establishes and continuously improves processes and tools to deliver high‑quality requirements while collaborating closely with engineers, stakeholders, and subject matter experts. The role is critical to ensuring systems are fit for purpose and not merely technically compliant.

Key responsibilities include:

• Elicit, analyze, and document system, subsystem, and interface requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure requirements and related work products reflect agreed operational needs, constraints, and stakeholder concerns.
• Ensure requirements are unambiguous, feasible, testable, and verifiable.
• Develop and maintain requirements specifications and related artefacts within a requirement management tool.
• Ensure bidirectional traceability between requirements and architecture, design, verification, and validation artefacts.
• Perform and review requirements decomposition, including coverage and gap analysis.
• Lead requirements reviews, walkthroughs, and sign‑off activities with engineering and customer representatives.
• Review proposed requirement changes and associated impact analysis, and support requirements change and baseline management activities in accordance with configuration management processes.
• Lead requirements baseline management and change activities, including impact analysis and configuration control.
• A subject matter experts in producing high‑quality, detailed requirements and related engineering artefacts.

Typical assignments may include managing requirements for a defined capability area, supporting audits or compliance reviews through traceability evidence, and coordinating requirements updates.

Minimum Requirements

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in cross‑functional and multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities within a structured engineering environment.
• At least 10 years of professional experience in the design and integration of complex systems in commercial and/or military domains.
• At least 6 years of professional experience with a primary focus on requirement engineering activities.
• University or college degree in engineering or a related discipline.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both written and oral.Bilingualism (English/French) is considered an asset.
• Ability to obtain a