System Application Design Engineer

Alstom Transportation; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Alstom Transportation in Bengaluru seeks an experienced Railway Signalling professional to translate customer contracts into robust system designs and ensure compliance with safety standards. You will define system-level documents and deliver design artifacts across architecture, requirements, and operational specifications.

Collaborate with requirement managers and project teams to ensure traceability in DOORS, develop scheme plans, signaling rules, and related documentation, and contribute to

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-6 years of professional experience in Railway Signalling domain.
• Knowledge of Railway Safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Identify technical requirements from customer contracts (General, Particular and Technical Specifications).
• Collaborate with requirement manager for allocating contractual requirements to project stakeholders.
• Define system level documents (Functional, Operational and Constructional) and satisfy the technical requirements.
• Define and produce System Application Design Deliveries (Scheme plan, Architecture, Requirements/Operational specification).
• Ensure system requirement traceability in DOORS and traced through system specification.
• Deliver Project System level documents and Project Application documents (Scheme Plan, Signalling rules, Network Addressing Plan, System Parameter computation, System Database, Review reports).
• Prepare project training materials and contribute to continuous improvement.

Skills

Fluent English (reading/writing/speaki

Technical writing

Engineering planning

Signaling domain knowledge

Requirements traceability

Analytical skills

Tools

DOORS

Job description

• Identify the technical requirements from the customer contract (General specification, Particular Specification and Technical Specification)
• Collaborate with requirement manager for allocating the contractual requirements to the Project stakeholders.
• Define the System level documents for identified technical requirements from the contract (Functional, Operational and Constructional). Satisfy & comply the technical requirements.
• Define and produce all System Application Design Deliveries, Ex: Signalling Scheme plan, Signalling Design Principles, Architecture, Requirements specification and Operational specification.

Performance measurements:

• Project QCD (quality, cost, delivery on time)
• Customer approval of System Application Design Documents Ex: (Scheme plan, Architecture, Requirements/Operational specification and Headway simulation)
• Number of design defects detected during the validation phases

Key responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Requirement manager and Project Architect and be accountable to the Technical requirement allocated to System Application Design.
• Adhere to Signalling design principles and project schedules, follows the Project Engineering plan, Change management plan and configuration management plans.
• For the system Application design, he/she:
  • Conducts Kick Off Meeting with design team to decide on scope and delivery dates.
  • Analyse and confirms the input required to Project Engineering manager and Sub System Leaders for the architecture description and system specification.
  • Ensures system requirement traceability is managed in Requirement management Tool DOORS and traced through system specification.
  • To deliver Project System level documents Ex: Requirement Specification/Architecture/Operational Specification, External Interface specification etc.
  • To deliver Project Application documents Ex: Scheme Plan, Signalling rules, System naming rules, Network Addressing Plan, System Parameter computation, System Database, Review reports.
  • Analysing and replying to the reports/comments from Testing & Commission, Verification and Validation, Customer.
• Prepares the project training materials Ex: System Functions and Operations, Architecture, Scheme plan and Application Design Details.
• Contributes to continuous improvement/Innovation (RoE: Return on Experience, Work method statements, etc.)

Promoting and Practicing the Alstom Code of Ethics and adhering to the highest standards of ethical conduct

Competencies & Skills

• Writing skills required: clarity, rigor and concision
• Adhering to Engineering planning and deliverables
• Competent to interact with signaling sub-system across the project team for technical convergence.
• Capability to analyze the technical queries from project team.
• Fluent in English reading, writing and speaking

Experience

Mandatory:

• Minimum 5-6 Years of professional experience in Railway Signalling domain.
• Knowledge on Railway Safety standards

Desirable:

• Hands on Mainline / Urban/ Passenger & Transit railway signalling
• Knowledge on any of the signaling sub-system such as Train control systems, wayside Interlocking and supervision systems
• Worked on Signaling Design including Installation, Testing and commissioning

Software skills (VBA, CAD, Visio, MS-office and Excel)