Agility Partners is seeking a contract Systems Engineer to help consolidate, organize, and formalize requirements for a complex, software-intensive system. The ideal candidate will bring structure to information currently spread across multiple sources, including documentation, Jira stories, test artifacts, and stakeholder knowledge, transforming it into a clear, testable, and traceable requirements baseline using IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next (DOORS NG).
Key Responsibilities:- Inventory and assess existing requirements sources, including specifications, Jira stories, architecture and interface documentation, test cases, and stakeholder input.
- Facilitate working sessions with engineers, testers, operators, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements, resolve ambiguities, and identify gaps.
- Translate informal, incomplete, or inconsistent information into clear, concise, testable, and implementation-independent requirements.
- Identify duplicates, conflicts, ambiguities, assumptions, outdated content, and unresolved decisions requiring stakeholder action.
- Configure, organize, and maintain approved requirements within DOORS Next following established processes and standards.
- Establish and maintain bidirectional traceability between requirements and supporting artifacts.
- Develop lightweight process documentation and provide knowledge transfer to internal teams.
- Requirements inventory, gap assessment, and prioritized execution plan.
- Consolidated and baselined requirements modules in DOORS Next, including source traceability and identified open issues.
- Traceability, quality, and coverage reports highlighting gaps, overlaps, and duplicate requirements.
- Requirements management documentation and knowledge-transfer materials.
Required Qualifications:- Proven experience in systems engineering and requirements engineering for complex software-intensive systems.
- Hands-on experience eliciting, analyzing, decomposing, documenting, reviewing, baselining, and managing requirements.
- Experience with IBM DOORS Next (DOORS NG) or a comparable enterprise requirements management platform.
- Experience establishing traceability across requirements, design artifacts, development work items, and testing activities.
- Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, technical writing, and analytical skills.
- Ability to independently navigate ambiguity, organize complex information, and drive work to completion.
- Strong understanding of requirements management, requirements analysis, and requirements capture methodologies.
Preferred Qualifications:- Experience analyzing source code to identify undocumented functionality and derive candidate requirements.
- Experience with Jira, Agile methodologies, and lifecycle traceability practices.
- Experience with model-based systems engineering (MBSE), architecture modeling, or verification and validation (V&V).
- Experience leveraging automation, static analysis, or AI-assisted approaches to improve requirements quality and discovery.
- Experience with Systems Modeling Language (SysML).
- Experience supporting highly regulated, mission-critical, or large-scale enterprise environments. Why You'll Love This Opportunity
- Play a key role in bringing clarity, traceability, and structure to a critical software system.
- Work with a high degree of autonomy while collaborating across engineering, testing, and operational teams.
- Apply best-in-class systems and requirements engineering practices in a technically challenging environment.
- Leave a lasting impact through process improvements, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
- Work with modern requirements management tools and explore innovative approaches to improving requirements quality and efficiency.
