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Radar Systems Requirements Manager


Company : BAE Systems


Location : Ryde, Isle of Wight


Created : 2025-04-07


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Job Title: Radar Systems Requirements Manager Location: Cowes Salary: Circa 65,000+ depending on skills and experience plus bonus scheme What youll be doing: Leading and managing requirements activities across the engineering lifecycle, applying ISO 15288 principles to ensure traceability from definition to validation Owning and maintaining the requirements database, ensuring it supports effective decomposition, verification, and specification across system levels Defining and implementing robust requirements management processes, plans, and database schemas to meet project and customer needs Administer access, training, and support for requirements tools (e.g. DOORS Next) and ensure good practice is followed across the team Facilitating the integration of tools and data exchange with third parties, ensuring configuration control and data integrity Monitoring requirements stability, generate key metrics, and support the production of requirement documentation and specifications Your skills and experiences: Essential skills: Expert-level knowledge of Systems Engineering principles, with strong systems thinking and holistic approaches to requirement definition and management Familiarity with key standards related to requirements specification (e.g. ISO 15288, ISO 12207, ISO 29148, IEEE 1016) Proven experience in requirements management tools (e.g. IBM DOORS Next) and configuration control In-depth understanding of the full engineering lifecycle, including lifecycle models such as Waterfall and Agile, and tools like JIRA Educated to degree level (or equivalent experience) in a STEM discipline or equivalent experience Desirable skills: Experience using high-level design methodologies (e.g. UAF, NAF, TOGAF, SysML, UML) with a focus on requirements integration Awareness of the defence industry landscape and current UK government strategic priorities Benefits: As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts you may also be eligible for an annual incentive. The Future Radar team: Join us in shaping the Future of Radar Technology, we are evolving our radar portfolio enhancing our existing and developing brand-new radar products to address emerging and future threats in the realm of Future Air Dominance. With strong collaboration from our customers and investment in talent, our strategy is to stay at the forefront of defence innovation. As a Radar Systems Requirements Manager, you will support our leading Radar products, ensuring consistency and traceability across the full engineering lifecyclefrom definition through to integration, acceptance, and support. This role will take ownership of the requirements database and drive continuous improvement in related methodologies and tools, particularly around the exploitation of DOORS Next. Our workplace in Cowes is an easily accessible commute from Southampton with a regular foot passenger ferry and BAE shuttle service from the ferry terminal to site. As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home. Why BAE Systems? This is a place where youll be able to make a real difference. Youll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where youll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments. Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks. Closing Date: 22nd April 2025 We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. #LI-JP1 #LI-Onsite