Requirement Manager

About Systra

SYSTRA is a global engineering and consultancy group specializing in public transport and sustainable mobility. With over 10,300 employees, SYSTRA designs safe and sustainable transport solutions globally, focusing on social inclusion and access to essential services. The Group supports cities and regions in developing, improving, and modernizing infrastructure and transport systems across project lifecycles, from design to maintenance, operating in over 80 countries.

The Role

SYSTRA is seeking a Requirement Manager to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position involves overseeing and managing the requirements process for a major Rail project client. The successful candidate will lead the requirements management process for large-scale Rail projects, ensuring clear definition, documentation, verification, validation, and traceability of business, functional, and technical requirements throughout the project lifecycle. The role acts as the primary interface between stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring contractual compliance and successful fulfillment of client requirements during contract execution and engineering delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide expertise in requirements management to analyze, track, and clarify requirements.
• Manage the process for developing and maintaining requirements processes.
• Establish and apply processes and tools for capturing, structuring, and managing requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage the application of the Requirements Management Plan in alignment with project governance.
• Track and maintain traceability of technical information across the entire lifecycle.
• Coordinate with engineering, operations, safety, environmental, and stakeholder teams to validate requirements.
• Advise the Client and coordinate with project stakeholders to resolve requirements-related issues.
• Manage a requirements database, ensuring full traceability from contract and program requirements to design and delivery.
• Ensure requirements are clearly communicated and implemented across all design and construction disciplines.
• Lead verification, validation, and acceptance activities, ensuring compliance with contract, regulatory, and customer requirements.
• Identify and resolve requirement gaps, conflicts, and dependencies in collaboration with project teams.
• Support change, configuration, and interface management processes.
• Liaise with designers and consortium teams using tools such as DOORS / ComplyPro, including evidence linking.
• Track and report requirements compliance KPIs to project leadership.
• Promote a structured and disciplined approach to requirements management across the program.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree and/or Chartered Engineer Status.
• Not less than 10 years of experience in the management of design and/or construction of rail projects.
• Extensive experience in the management and implementation of requirements management practices as applied to major railway/Metro projects.
• Detailed working knowledge and experience in requirements management tools, particularly ComplyPro/IBM DOORS or similar, demonstrating compliance with standards including EN 50126/50128/50129 and ISO 29148.
• Ability to analyze and validate requirements, including requirements writing and acquisition-related tasks.
• Solid understanding of systems engineering principles.
• Experience in the application of systems assurance standards such as EN 50126, EN 50128, EN 50129, IEC 61508, etc.