Principal Systems Engineer

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• Lead the establishment and governance of a requirements management framework across projects by administering and optimizing the requirements database (e.g., DOORS), including its structure, controls, versioning, and integration, while ensuring end-to-end traceability, enforcing quality standards and review processes, and supporting stakeholders through training, coaching, and troubleshooting.
• Coordinate systems engineering and integration across multiple venues and domains by defining and managing interfaces between systems and delivery partners, addressing cross-venue dependencies and risks, and supporting integration planning, staging, readiness, and operational transition.
• Apply systems engineering best practices across the lifecycle by managing requirements, interfaces, verification and validation, and configuration control, ensuring alignment with recognized standards (e.g., ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288), and supporting the development of system architectures and concepts of operations aligned to event delivery needs.
• Engage and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders—including venue delivery teams, technology providers, and government agencies—by facilitating requirements workshops and integration forums, providing clear, evidence-based advice on status and risks, and acting as a key interface between engineering, operations, and program management teams.

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in Systems Engineering on complex, large-scale programs across infrastructure, technology, or major events.
• Strong expertise in requirements management, particularly using IBM DOORS (administration and advanced user capability).
• Proven ability to manage requirements and interfaces in multi-stakeholder, integrated environments, handling complexity and competing priorities.
• Solid understanding of the full systems engineering lifecycle, including V&V, configuration management, and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).

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You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

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