Vehicle Function Owner

ALTEN Technology USA; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 95,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

ALTEN Technology USA in Michigan seeks a Vehicle Function Owner – System Requirements Management to provide technical leadership across vehicle feature development and to act as the authoritative voice for requirements management.

You will collaborate with Vehicle Feature Owners, Architecture, Design Engineering, and Test & Validation to translate needs into system-level requirements, assess change impacts, and guide release decisions. Experience with DOORS/Jama and MBSE is preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience in system requirements management and cross-functional integration.
• Ability to decompose requirements and ensure verifiability.
• Proven ability to defend technical decisions with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead Vehicle Function Owner requirements activities across engineering domains.
• Assess impacts of new features and carry-over content on system requirements.
• Govern requirements content, validation, and release decisions.
• Collaborate with Vehicle Feature Owners, Architecture, Design Engineering, and Test & Validation.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

Stakeholder management

MBSE

Leadership

Tools

IBM DOORS / DOORS Next

Jama

Job description

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company that provides solutions for engineering, technology, and product development projects. For decades, we’ve been helping our clients develop products that are changing the world, whether that’s by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set a new standard of care, or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. Our team of more than 600 people works across industries including aerospace, medical devices and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicle, electric vehicles, rail, and more. Our offices across the US have different industry focuses and engage with our clients in different ways, ranging from working on-site at client facilities to performing product development at our delivery centers.

ALTEN Group, our parent company, has been a leader in engineering and information technology for more than 30 years. ALTEN Group operates in 30 countries across Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East and employs more than 36,000 people, 88% of whom are engineers. The company covers the whole development cycle and offers a choice of service levels, from technology consulting to complete project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you join a group of people passionate about collaborating to solve some of the world’s most technical engineering challenges. Our success is tied to taking care of our employees by building relationships and providing opportunities for mentorship and career growth. We offer comprehensive benefits for all full-time employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) plan with employer matching; paid time off (PTO); paid parental leave; and mentorship to help you take your career to the next level. You don’t have to take our word for it that we are a great place to work—we were named on the 2023 Top Workplaces list thanks to feedback from our proud employees.

Job Description:

Position Summary:

• The Vehicle Function Owner– System Requirements Management is responsible for technical leadership of system requirements activities supporting vehicle feature development across multiple engineering domains.
• Operating upstream of product design and verification activities, the Vehicle Function Owner evaluates the impact of new features, feature modifications, and carry-over content on existing vehicle system requirements.
• The role serves as the authoritative voice for requirements management, ensuring that technical changes are properly assessed, documented, justified, and released before product design and validation activities begin.
• The Vehicle Function Owner acts as a key interface between Vehicle Feature Owners, Systems Engineering, Architecture, Design Engineering, and Test & Validation organizations.
• Success in this role requires strong systems engineering knowledge, sound technical judgment, assertiveness, stakeholder management skills, and the ability to defend requirement decisions that may impact program timing, cost, and downstream engineering activities.

Key Responsibilities:

Requirements Impact Assessment & Governance

• Evaluate technical impacts associated with:
• New vehicle features
• Feature modifications
• Carry-over content between vehicle programs
• Determine whether changes require creation, modification, or release of system requirements.
• Provide technical direction to Requirements Engineers regarding required updates and requirement rework activities.
• Ensure requirements remain:
• Complete
• Consistent
• Verifiable
• Aligned to intended feature functionality
• Drive requirement reviews and release decisions.
• Serve as technical authority for system requirement content and quality.

Front-End Systems Engineering:

• Operate upstream of design engineering and validation organizations.
• Translate customer, business, regulatory, and feature needs into robust system-level requirements.
• Analyze feature interactions and cross-functional dependencies.
• Identify technical gaps, assumptions, conflicts, and risks during early development phases.
• Support development of system architecture concepts when necessary to ensure requirement quality.
• Collaborate with Vehicle Feature Owners and Architecture teams to assess technical impacts of proposed changes.

Stakeholder Management & Technical Representation:

• Represent the Requirements Management organization within Client and customer-facing discussions.
• Defend requirement decisions and recommendations when challenged by development teams.
• Facilitate technical alignment among:
• Vehicle Feature Owners
• Architecture teams
• Design Engineering teams
• Test & Validation organizations
• Program leadership
• Present and synthesize complex technical information for audiences ranging from technical specialists to executive stakeholders.
• Drive decisions through influence and technical credibility.

Process Improvement

• Promote INCOSE-aligned systems engineering practices.
• Improve requirements management methodologies, standards, and governance processes.
• Contribute to organizational capability growth in:
• Requirements Engineering
• Change Management
• Technical Risk Assessment
• In addition to technical SME responsibilities, the role includes operational leadership of a small team.

Responsibilities include:

Candidates must demonstrate a strong understanding of:

• Requirement decomposition and allocation
• Requirement change management
• Cross-functional system integration
• Technical impact assessment

Experience with requirements management tools such as:

• IBM DOORS / DOORS Next
• Jama

Preferred Qualifications

• Vehicle E/E architecture knowledge.
• INCOSE certification (ASEP, CSEP, or ESEP).
• Experience with MBSE methodologies.
• Prior customer-facing technical leadership experience.
• First-level people leadership or team lead experience.

ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.