Senior Systems Engineer

Vattenfall; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Full time

Job summary

A leading utility company in Amsterdam seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead systems engineering across offshore wind projects. You will manage the Requirements Management System and ensure high-quality traceable requirements. The ideal candidate has over 7 years of experience in systems engineering and strong communication skills. This position offers competitive pay and a supportive work culture.

Benefits

Limitless growth opportunities

Healthy work-life balance

Diverse and inclusive workplace

Qualifications

• 7+ years applying Systems Engineering in complex projects.
• Experience with RMS/ALM tools and integrating them into governance.
• Strong command of English; excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead SE Adoption and act as Technical Authority.
• Manage RMS, track delivery, and steer scrum workstreams.
• Enable high-quality, traceable, verifiable requirements.

Skills

Systems Engineering

ISO/IEC 15288 processes

RMS/ALM tools

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Education

INCOSE certification (or equivalent)

Tools

Siemens Polarion

Job description

Overview

Want to be in your element working for fossil freedom using the power of wind and the sun? We’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to help us reduce technical risk and accelerate delivery across offshore wind projects. By embedding systems engineering excellence and driving digital integration, you’ll play a key role in enabling Vattenfall’s mission to power a fossil-free future.

You will join our business unit Offshore Wind, within the Systems Integration team (covering Systems Engineering & Interface Management). Our mandate is to integrate stakeholders, systems, and information across complex, multi-partner wind-farm projects—reducing technical and delivery risk while enabling reuse, standardization, and lower levelized cost of energy. We implement standards-based systems engineering practices and toolchains that connect development, engineering, procurement, construction, and operations.

Be in your element with BA Wind

As part of BA Wind, you will play a key role in one of the most exciting pipelines in the industry, with 24GW of capacity stretching out more than a decade ahead across our key European markets.

You won’t only be involved in developing projects but also pioneering cutting-edge innovation, new business models, and ways of working with communities and the environment. Working as part of a leading European utility also means you could be helping a growing number of major businesses and brands achieve their own sustainability goals through partnerships.

Your role / what will you do?

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will lead the implementation of our Requirements Management System (RMS)—Siemens Polarion—and embed ISO/IEC 15288 and INCOSE practices across priority offshore wind projects. You’ll define and apply improvement frameworks to elicit, structure, trace, verify, and validate requirements; translate business demands into features and tasks; and integrate the RMS with adjacent tools and project governance. During your tenure, you may also be called upon to support technical solution development (use cases, needs, and concepts) and the delivery of Systems Engineering (SE) processes on key projects—building momentum, enabling adoption, and reducing risk in multi-technology, multi-commodity, multi-partner environments.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Lead SE Adoption: Champion systems engineering across BU Offshore Wind; act as Technical Authority and Process Manager for SE.
• RMS Ownership (Polarion): Co-drive the roadmap with the System Owner; manage the backlog; steer scrum workstreams; track delivery and benefits.
• Standards & Methods: Tailor and deploy ISO/IEC 15288 / INCOSE practices; author a Systems Engineering Management Plan and Requirements Management Plan integrated with project governance.
• Requirements Excellence: Enable high-quality, traceable, and verifiable requirements, with clear links to verification evidence and contractual deliverables.
• Toolchain Integration: Oversee interactions and the integration between RMS and the wider digital landscape.
• Change & Enablement: Train and support users; identify pilots for new capabilities; capture and implement feedback; standardize successful approaches into reusable frameworks.
• Innovation: Contribute to MBSE practices and apply state-of-the-art GenAI/NLP for requirements improvement and decomposition.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Connect engineering, contract management, procurement, project delivery, operations & maintenance, and partners; expand and implement SE use cases.

Your profile / who are you?

You are a systems thinker with a strategic mindset who enjoys turning complexity into clear, testable requirements and robust interfaces. Empathetic and diplomatic, you bring people with you through change—explaining the “why,” not just the “what.” You thrive in dynamic, multi-stakeholder environments, communicate fluently across disciplines, and take pride in delivering on commitments with high quality and resilience.

Next to this you bring:

• 7+ years applying Systems Engineering across multiple lifecycle stages in complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
• Demonstrated experience across a breadth of ISO/IEC 15288 technical processes; INCOSE certification (or equivalent) highly recommended.
• Hands-on experience implementing RMS/ALM tools (preferably Siemens Polarion) and integrating them into project governance.
• Exposure to MBSE practices and/or AI/NLP for requirements is advantageous.
• Offshore wind experience is a plus (not required).
• Strong command of English (written and spoken); excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Comfortable working cross-culturally in hybrid/remote teams; willing to travel between core countries (Amsterdam, Hamburg, Kolding, London).

Our offer

Looking for a role where your superpowers can be leveraged to the maximum and with limitless opportunities for growth?

The scale and ambition of our wind, battery, and solar business means you can really find your element with us. We’ll also provide you with all the learning and development you need to expand your horizons.

We strive to be the best place to work in the industry with highly competitive pay and conditions and an open, supportive culture. A commitment to a healthy work-life balance aims to ensure everyone plays to their strengths, whatever their background and experiences.

You will be part of a growing team of 1,700+ colleagues from 50+ nationalities where our positive approach to diversity is reflected in the fact that more than a quarter of staff are women.

More Information

For more information about the position you are welcome to contact hiring manager Stephanos Kythreotis, [e-mail]. For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Christian Pathuel, [e-mail].