Requirements & Acceptance Lead

Babcock International Group; Corsham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Systems Requirements and Acceptance Lead to manage requirements engineering for defense projects. This full-time role involves working closely with technical teams and ensuring compliance with industry standards. The position offers hybrid working arrangements and competitive compensation, tailored to attract skilled professionals in the telecommunications and systems engineering fields.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefit

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in systems engineering.
• Knowledge of UK MOD practices required.
• Lead practitioner in requirement validation.

Responsibilities

• Manage requirements governance with Chief Engineer.
• Ensure quality of contract requirements.
• Facilitate DOORS training for stakeholders.

Skills

Stakeholder Requirement Management

System Verification and Validation

Requirements Management

Telecommunications Systems Compliance

Education

Degree in Telecommunications

HNC/HND relevant experience

Tools

DOORS

Job description

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Job Title: Systems Requirements and Acceptance Lead
Location: Corsham, Wiltshire, Bordon, Hampshire, or Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Systems Requirements and Acceptance Lead at our Hawthorn, Oakhanger, Corsham or Ashton House sites.

The role
As a Systems Requirements and Acceptance Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will take ownership of the requirements management plan and associated engineering process, tailored to the needs of the contract and associated replenish work packages.

Day-to-day, you’ll:

• Manage requirements engineering governance in liaison with the Chief Engineer
• Be responsible for the quality and integrity of Skynet contract requirements and associated updates as a result of change projects in accordance with policy and best engineering practice
• Be responsible for working with Technical Leads, supporting the creation and review of requirements documentation, from concepts through to in-life support, maintaining a focus on quality
• Carry out administration of the Requirements Management Databases (RMDB), hosted in Domain Object Oriented Requirements Systems (DOORS) schema and access
• Facilitate DOORS training and support for applicable stakeholders
• Manage the creation of high-quality requirements and acceptance documentation and reporting

This position involves occasional travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

This role is full time, thirty-seven hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Systems Requirements and Acceptance Lead

• Extensive and demonstrable systems engineering experience with specialism in requirements definition, verification, validation and transition to service
• Knowledge of UK MOD practices and ways of working
• Lead practitioner/expert in determining and managing stakeholder requirements, requirements validation and transition to operation
• Conversant with accreditation standards for bringing into service telecommunications systems including bespoke and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software applications
• Experience in delivery in a Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) environment

Qualifications for the Systems Requirements and Acceptance Lead

• Degree or equivalent in Telecommunications or Electronic Engineering
• HNC/HND with equivalent, relevant experience is valued and welcomed

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity