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 focuses on designing safe and sustainable transport solutions to enhance social inclusion and facilitate access to essential services worldwide. The group has 65 years of experience in developing, improving, and modernizing infrastructure and transport systems, engaging in projects from design to maintenance across more than 80 countries.

The Role of Requirements Manager

SYSTRA is seeking a Requirements Manager to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves overseeing and managing the requirements process for a client on a major Rail project. The successful candidate will be responsible for defining, documenting, verifying, validating, and maintaining traceability of business, functional, and technical requirements throughout the project lifecycle. The role requires acting as the primary interface between stakeholders and technical teams to ensure contractual compliance and the successful fulfillment of client requirements during contract execution and engineering delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide requirements management expertise to analyze, track, and clarify requirements.
• Manage the process for developing and maintaining requirements.
• 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 in resolving 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.
• A minimum of 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 for major railway/Metro projects.
• Detailed working knowledge and experience with requirements management tools, specifically 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.

Work Location

This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.