Senior Requirements Engineer

Location: Ottawa, Canada

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Senior Requirements Engineer

Position Summary

Thales Canada, Defence & Security supports the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) through its In‑Service Support (ISS) programs. Through the Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships & Joint Support Ships (AOPS & JSS) In‑Service Support (AJISS) and the Minor Warships & Auxiliary Vessels (MWAV) programs, Thales Canada provides support to over 70% of the RCN fleet. Thales is leveraging cutting‑edge solutions to deliver preventive and corrective maintenance, Integrated Logistics Support (ILS), Program Management, Engineering, Life‑Cycle Material Management (LCMM), and new capability insertion across multiple naval platforms.

The Requirements Management team is central to AJISS program success, ensuring that all contractual, technical, and regulatory requirements are systematically captured, traced, verified, and controlled throughout the vessel support lifecycle. We are building a dedicated team to establish enterprise-wide requirements visibility, support performance incentive achievement (SRVF), and maintain audit-ready compliance documentation.

You will join the Requirements Management team located at a Thales facility in Canada, collaborating with stakeholders within the Government of Canada and the Department of National Defence (DND), as well as engineering and integrated project teams, to deliver mission-critical requirements management capabilities. In this role, you will gain hands‑on experience on large‑scale naval programs while helping shape requirements that directly impact fleet readiness and operational capability.

Regulatory Compliance Requirement

This position requires direct or indirect access to hardware, software or technical information controlled under the Canadian Export Control List and/or the US the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All applicants must be eligible or able to obtain authorization for such access.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Requirements Engineers strive to understand the end-user’s needs, limitations, and concept of employment for the system and ensure that they are accurately captured, analyzed, documented, and maintained throughout the system lifecycle. At the senior level, the Requirements Engineer establishes and continuously improves processes and tools to deliver high‑quality requirements while collaborating closely with engineers, stakeholders, and subject matter experts. The role is critical to ensuring systems are fit for purpose and not merely technically compliant.

Key responsibilities include:

• Elicit, analyze, and document system, subsystem, and interface requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure requirements and related work products reflect agreed operational needs, constraints, and stakeholder concerns.
• Ensure requirements are unambiguous, feasible, testable, and verifiable.
• Develop and maintain requirements specifications and related artefacts within a requirement management tool.
• Ensure bidirectional traceability between requirements and architecture, design, verification, and validation artefacts.
• Perform and review requirements decomposition, including coverage and gap analysis.
• Lead requirements reviews, walkthroughs, and sign‑off activities with engineering and customer representatives.
• Review proposed requirement changes and associated impact analysis, and support requirements change and baseline management activities in accordance with configuration management processes.
• Lead requirements baseline management and change activities, including impact analysis and configuration control.
• A subject matter experts in producing high-quality, detailed requirements and related engineering artefacts.

Typical assignments may include managing requirements for a defined capability area, supporting audits or compliance reviews through traceability evidence, and coordinating requirements updates.

Minimum Requirements

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in cross‑functional and multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities within a structured engineering environment.
• At least 10 years of professional experience in the design and integration of complex systems in commercial and/or military domains.
• At least 6 years of professional experience with a primary focus on requirement engineering activities.
• University or college degree in engineering or a related discipline.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both written and oral.
• Bilingualism (English/French) is considered an asset.
• Ability to obtain and maintain security clearances as required under applicable regulatory and contractual obligations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORS and/or Polarion;
• Familiarity with DXL scripting.
• Exposure to scripting and integration technologies used in requirements and engineering toolchains such as REST APIs, XML/ReqIF exchange formats, Python, or database queries.
• Experience supporting in-service naval platforms or other complex, mission-critical systems.
• Eligible to obtain Professional Engineering designation (P. Eng) in Canada.

Physical Demands

• Standard office work.

Special Position Requirements

• Full time
• Standard business hours
• Possibility of travel to east or west coast sites for technical support / installation / inspection onboard ships in dock.

The reference Total Target Compensation (TTC) market range for this position, inclusive of annual base salary and the variable compensation target, is between Total Target Cash (TTC) $130,000 - $150,000 CAD Annual.

This reflects how companies in a similar industry and geographic region generally pay for similar jobs. This range helps the Company make pay decisions as one data point among many. Where a position falls within this range is also dependent on other factors including – but not limited to – the employee’s career path history, competencies, skills and performance, as well as the company’s annual salary budget, the customer’s program requirements, and the company’s internal equity. Thales may offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s status protected by local, state, or federal law.

We use artificial intelligence–enabled tools as part of our recruitment process to support activities such as candidate discovery, résumé matching, and interview scheduling. These tools may help screen and assess applications and recommend potential matches based on the requirements within the job description. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters. Artificial intelligence does not make hiring decisions on our behalf.

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Thales provides an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 24 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents, including the following:

• Company paid Extended Health, Dental, HSA, Life, AD&D, Short-term Disability, Cancer Care Program, travel insurance, Employee Assistance Plan and Well-Being program.

• Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP, DCPP, TFSA) with a company contribution and a match to a DCPP, with no vesting period.

• Company paid holidays, vacation days, and paid sick leave.

• Voluntary Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Long-Term Disability.

• Employee Discounts on home, auto, and gym membership.

Thales is an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Thales is committed to providing accommodations in all parts of the interview process. Applicants selected for an interview who require accommodation are asked to advise accordingly upon the invitation for an interview. We will work with you to meet your needs. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of providing an accessible candidate experience.

This position requires direct or indirect access to hardware, software or technical information controlled under the Canadian Export Control List, the Canadian Controlled Goods Program, the Canadian Industrial Security Program, the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the US Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All applicants must be eligible or able to obtain authorization for such access including eligibility to the Canadian Controlled Goods Program and able to obtain a Canadian NATO Secret clearance.