Systems Requirements Manager

BAE Systems; Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 76,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading international defense company is seeking a Systems Requirements Manager in the Portsmouth area. This role involves leading requirements activities throughout the engineering lifecycle, managing the requirements database, and implementing robust management processes. Ideal candidates will have expert-level Systems Engineering knowledge, familiarity with key ISO standards, and experience in requirements tools. This position offers flexibility in working hours and a range of benefits including a competitive pension and health plans.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Strong systems thinking and holistic approaches to requirement definition.
• Proven experience in configuration control.
• Proficient with lifecycle models like Waterfall and Agile.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage requirements activities across the engineering lifecycle.
• Maintain the requirements database for verification and specification.
• Define and implement requirements management processes.

Skills

Expert-level knowledge of Systems Engineering principles

Familiarity with ISO standards related to requirements specification

Experience in requirements management tools

Understanding of the full engineering lifecycle

Educated to degree level in STEM

Education

Degree in a STEM discipline

Tools

IBM DOORS Next

JIRA

Job description

Job Title: Systems Requirements Manager

Location: Isle of Wight – Cowes or Portsmouth – BroadOak or Great Baddow – Chelmsford

Salary: Up to £75,900 depending on skills and experience plus bonus scheme. Part time & accruing hours available. Please let us know if you would like to discuss these options.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading and managing requirements activities across the engineering lifecycle, applying ISO 15288 principles to ensure traceability from definition to validation
• Owning and maintaining the requirements database, ensuring it supports effective decomposition, verification, and specification across system levels
• Defining and implementing robust requirements management processes, plans, and database schemas to meet project and customer needs
• Administer access, training, and support for requirements tools (e.g. DOORS Next) and ensure good practice is followed across the team
• Facilitating the integration of tools and data exchange with third parties, ensuring configuration control and data integrity
• Monitoring requirements stability, generate key metrics, and support the production of requirement documentation and specifications

Your skills and experiences:

• Expert-level knowledge of Systems Engineering principles, with strong systems thinking and holistic approaches to requirement definition and management
• Familiarity with key standards related to requirements specification (e.g. ISO 15288, ISO 12207, ISO 29148, IEEE 1016)
• Proven experience in requirements management tools (e.g. IBM DOORS Next) and configuration control
• In-depth understanding of the full engineering lifecycle, including lifecycle models such as Waterfall and Agile, and tools like JIRA
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent experience) in a STEM discipline or equivalent experience

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Future Radar team:

Join us in shaping the Future of Radar Technology, we are evolving our radar portfolio enhancing our existing and developing brand-new radar products to address emerging and future threats in the realm of Future Air Dominance. With strong collaboration from our customers and investment in talent, our strategy is to stay at the forefront of defence innovation.

As a Radar Systems Requirements Manager, you will support our leading Radar products, ensuring consistency and traceability across the full engineering lifecycle—from definition through to integration, acceptance, and support. This role will take ownership of the requirements database and drive continuous improvement in related methodologies and tools, particularly around the exploitation of DOORS Next.

Our workplace in Cowes is an easily accessible commute from Southampton with a regular foot passenger ferry and BAE shuttle service from the ferry terminal to site.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 5th December 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.