Defence Requirements Engineer – Systems & Verification Lead

Akkodis; Cheadle; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Akkodis is seeking an experienced Electronics Requirements Engineer to support a major defence programme in a highly regulated environment. You will translate customer and system requirements into structured, traceable engineering deliverables, ensuring compliance with programme, industry and regulatory standards.

Working with multidisciplinary teams, you will support requirements capture, verification activities and compliance evidence generation, helping to deliver complex hardware solutions

Qualifications

• Degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering or related discipline.
• Eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).
• Strong background in requirements, systems engineering, verification and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements capture, analysis, allocation and management activities.
• Maintain traceability from customer requirements through design, integration, verification and acceptance.
• Support verification and validation activities, ensuring compliance evidence is generated and maintained.
• Develop test specifications, verification strategies and acceptance criteria alongside engineering teams.
• Produce and review requirements documentation, test documentation and compliance reports.
• Support regulatory and standards compliance activities.
• Collaborate with customers, stakeholders and technical teams to resolve requirements and engineering issues.
• Assess the impact of requirement changes and support engineering change management processes.
• Contribute to project planning, progress reporting and programme governance.
• Promote best practice in requirements management and systems engineering.

Skills

Requirements engineering

Traceability

Verifica tion & validation

Education

Bachelors in Electronic/Electrical/Systems Engineering

Tools

DOORS

Jira

PLM

Job description

Akkodis is seeking an experienced Electronics Requirements Engineer to support a major defence programme in a highly regulated environment. You will translate customer and system requirements into structured, traceable engineering deliverables, ensuring compliance with programme, industry and regulatory standards.

Working with multidisciplinary teams, you will support requirements capture, verification activities and compliance evidence generation, helping to deliver complex hardware solutions