Manager - Systems Engineering

Cubic Corporation; Telangana; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cubic Transportation Systems in India seeks a Manager, Systems Engineering to provide technical leadership and delivery ownership across complex programs. You will drive governance for requirements, architecture, integration, verification, and lifecycle delivery.

The role requires strong leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and a track record of delivering complex systems while mentoring engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field.
• 8+ years of systems engineering or complex technical program delivery.
• Experience with lifecycle delivery, governance, and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead systems engineering delivery with strong governance across lifecycle stages.
• Provide technical direction for cross-functional teams on complex systems.
• Advance requirements engineering maturity and traceability.
• Lead architecture, design, interfaces, and readiness reviews.
• Drive subsystem and API integration readiness and validation planning.
• Collaborate with Product, Program, Software, and Operations teams to mitigate risks.
• Establish governance forums and release readiness checkpoints.
• Build and mentor a team of Systems Engineers.

Skills

Systems engineering leadership

Requirements engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related technical discipline

Tools

DOORS

JIRA

DevOps

ALM

Confluence

SysML/UML

SQL

APIs

JSON/XML

Integration debugging

Job description

Business Unit

Cubic Transportation Systems. Company Details: When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people's lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners. We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.

Job Details

We are seeking a Manager, Systems Engineering, to provide technical leadership and delivery ownership across complex systems engineering programs. This role is responsible for strengthening systems engineering capability across requirements, architecture/design, integration, verification, validation, configuration/change management, risk management, and lifecycle delivery. The successful candidate will be expected to operate as a Technical Systems Engineering Leader, with people management focused on coaching, capability development, performance support, and career progression. The role is expected to drive technical governance, system ownership, program execution leadership, and cross-functional decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead systems engineering delivery across assigned programs and products ensuring strong technical governance across requirements, design, integration, verification, validation, transition, operation, and sustainment.
• Provide technical direction to Systems Engineers working on complex, cross-functional systems involving software, hardware, devices, payments, back-office platforms, APIs, data flows, and operational environments.
• Drive requirements engineering maturity, including elicitation, decomposition, traceability, validation, and change control.
• Provide technical leadership for system architecture, high-level design, interfaces, integration, verification, validation, and readiness reviews.
• Drive system integration readiness across subsystems, interfaces, devices, APIs, data flows, and third-party dependencies.
• Support verification and validation planning, including test readiness, environment readiness, traceability review, defect triage, production-like validation, and operational acceptance.
• Partner with Product, Program, Software Engineering, Test, Operations, and customer-facing teams to resolve technical and delivery risks.
• Establish technical governance mechanisms including requirements reviews, design reviews, integration readiness reviews, defect triage forums, and release readiness checkpoints.
• Build and mentor a team of Systems Engineers, with focus on developing future technical leaders.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks, single points of failure, skill gaps, dependency risks, and program execution challenges.
• Improve systems engineering processes, templates, metrics, dashboards, and standard ways of working.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of engineering experience in systems engineering, solution engineering, integration, product engineering, or complex technical program delivery.
• Strong experience in requirements engineering, architecture/design, integration, verification, validation, and change management.
• Experience with DOORS, JIRA, DevOps, ALM, Confluence, SysML/UML, SQL, APIs, JSON/XML, and integration debugging.
• Proven ability to lead technical teams and resolve complex cross-functional engineering issues.
• Strong understanding of system lifecycle delivery and technical governance.
• Experience supporting bids, proposals, technical solutioning, effort estimation, and engineering inputs for customer / program pursuits.
• Experience managing or contributing to engineering budgets, resource planning.
• Experience working with Program Managers, Product Owners, Software Engineering, Test, Operations, and customer-facing teams.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, coaching, mentoring, and technical leadership skills.

Good-to-Have Qualifications

• INCOSE ASEP or CSEP certification.
• Familiarity with INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook, INCOSE Competency Framework, and Systems Engineering Competency Assessment Guide.
• Experience with Transit systems.

Worker Type

Employee

Equal Opportunity & Diversity Statement

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic under applicable law. Cubic creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation that make people's lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities that help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global challenges through innovation and service to our customers and partners. We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). CTS is an industry-leading integrator of payment and information solutions and related services for intelligent travel applications. CTS delivers integrated systems for transportation and traffic management, delivering tools for travelers to choose the smartest and easiest way to travel and pay for their journeys, and enabling transportation authorities and agencies to manage demand across the entire transportation network. Cubic Defense provides networked Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) solutions, and live, virtual, constructive and game-based training solutions for both U.S. and Allied Forces. These mission-inspired capabilities enable assured multi-domain access; converged digital intelligence; and superior readiness for defense, intelligence, security and commercial missions. Cubic is proud to have a presence in over 60 countries and employ over 5,000 people worldwide. We are committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce and are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer. We are committed to ensuring a workplace free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, military or veteran status, and any other basis protected by applicable law. For more information on Equal Employment please visit: http://www.cubic.com/Careers/Applicant-Help To learn more, visit Cubic.com. Follow us on LinkedIn!