Manager - Systems Engineering

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Responsibilities

• Lead systems engineering delivery across assigned programs and products ensuring strong technical governance across requirements, design, integration, verification, validation, transition, operation, and sustainment
• Provide technical direction to Systems Engineers working on complex, cross-functional systems involving software, hardware, devices, payments, back-office platforms, APIs, data flows, and operational environments.
• Drive requirements engineering maturity, including elicitation, decomposition, traceability, validation, and change control.
• Provide technical leadership for system architecture, high-level design, interfaces, integration, verification, validation, and readiness reviews.
• Drive system integration readiness across subsystems, interfaces, devices, APIs, data flows, and third-party dependencies.
• Support verification and validation planning, including test readiness, environment readiness, traceability review, defect triage, production-like validation, and operational acceptance.
• Partner with Product, Program, Software Engineering, Test, Operations, and customer-facing teams to resolve technical and delivery risks.
• Establish technical governance mechanisms including requirements reviews, design reviews, integration readiness reviews, defect triage forums, and release readiness checkpoints.
• Build and mentor a team of Systems Engineers, with focus on developing future technical leaders.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks, single points of failure, skill gaps, dependency risks, and program execution challenges.
• Improve systems engineering processes, templates, metrics, dashboards, and standard ways of working.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of engineering experience in systems engineering, solution engineering, integration, product engineering, or complex technical program delivery.
• Strong experience in requirements engineering, architecture/design, integration, verification, validation, and change management.
• Experience with DOORS, JIRA, DevOps, ALM, Confluence, SysML/UML, SQL, APIs, JSON/XML, and integration debugging.
• Proven ability to lead technical teams and resolve complex cross-functional engineering issues.
• Strong understanding of system lifecycle delivery and technical governance.
• Experience supporting bids, proposals, technical solutioning, effort estimation, and engineering inputs for customer / program pursuits.
• Experience managing or contributing to engineering budgets, resource planning.
• Experience working with Program Managers, Product Owners, Software Engineering, Test, Operations, and customer-facing teams.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, coaching, mentoring, and technical leadership skills.

Good-to-Have Qualifications

• INCOSE ASEP or CSEP certification.
• Familiarity with INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook, INCOSE Competency Framework, and Systems Engineering Competency Assessment Guide.
• Experience with Transit systems.
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