Requirements Engineer
12 Month Contract - Outside IR35
Hybrid Working/Stratford
Key Accountabilities
* As a requirements management engineer you will work with projects across the London to identify their needs, translating and moulding them into formal, verifiable requirements.
* Experienced in eliciting requirements from multiple stakeholders with different viewpoints, you can distil the results into a complete and coherent specification suite providing full traceability.
* Maintaining it all through the project lifecycle, from concept to acceptance into service, you will be proactive in managing changes and highlighting their impact.
* You’ll be working with project teams, supporting them in developing requirements and maintaining the requirements set in the IBM DOORS database.
* You’ll also help to develop our strategic direction for requirements management, ensuring the business has the tools and processes in place to maximise value from the requirements process.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
* Ability to elicit ‘system needs’ from diverse stakeholder groups and translate them into formal clear, coherent and verifiable requirements (Essential)
* Ability to work as part of a project delivery team to refine and manage requirements, acceptance criteria and traceability (Essential)
* Ability to develop key requirements related products including system requirements specifications and requirements management plans (Desirable)
* Ability to assess the impact of change through requirement tracing (Desirable)
* Ability to resolve and negotiate requirements conflicts and establish acceptance criteria for inter-connected requirements (Desirable)
* Ability to assess the verification and validation of requirements, assembling evidence in support of verification submissions (Desirable).
* A detailed understanding of elicitation, decomposition and traceability methodologies appropriate to the management of requirement hierarchies (Essential)
* A detailed understanding of the role of good acceptance criteria in the definition of verifiable requirements (Essential)
* Good understanding of general systems engineering principles and their relationship to requirements management (Desirable)
* Experience of engaging with, managing and influencing stakeholders, both internally & externally (Essential)
* Extensive experience of eliciting stakeholder requirements and managing requirement sets through the full project lifecycle on a major programme or several smaller projects (Essential)
* Extensive experience using IBM DOORS to create and manage requirements for projects (Essential)
* Extensive experience of applying the outcomes of requirements analysis through design, test and commissioning stages (Desirable)