Systems Engineer

Job Title: Systems Engineer
 
Location: Carmel, IN (hybrid)
 
Industry: Utilities
 
Job Description:
Theoris Services is assisting our client in their search for a Systems Engineer to consolidate and formalize requirements for a complex, software-intensive system. Requirements currently exist across documents, Jira stories, test artifacts, and subject-matter-expert knowledge. This role will organize those inputs into a clear, testable, and traceable requirements baseline in IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next (DOORS NG).
 
Responsibilities:

• Gather, analyze, and document business and technical requirements.
• Inventory and assess existing requirement sources, including specifications, Jira stories, architecture and interface documents, test cases, and stakeholder knowledge.
• Facilitate working sessions with engineers, operators, testers, and other subject-matter experts to clarify intent and resolve gaps or conflicts.
• Convert informal and inconsistent inputs into clear, concise, testable, and implementation-independent requirements using established systems engineering practices.
• Identify duplicates, ambiguities, contradictions, assumptions, obsolete content, and open decisions requiring stakeholder resolution.
• Load and structure the approved requirements in DOORS Next using the organization's established configuration and processes.
• Establish bidirectional traceability among requirements and source artifacts.
• Create concise process guidance and provide knowledge transfer to internal staff.

• Demonstrated systems engineering and requirements engineering experience with complex, software-intensive systems.
• Hands-on experience eliciting, analyzing, decomposing, writing, reviewing, baselining, and managing requirements.
• Experience using IBM DOORS Next or a comparable formal requirements management tool.
• Experience establishing traceability across requirements, design, delivery work items, and test evidence.
• Strong facilitation, technical writing, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work independently, bring structure to ambiguous information, and deliver incrementally in a collaborative environment.

• Experience analyzing source code to identify undocumented system behavior and develop candidate requirements.
• Experience with Jira, Agile delivery practices, and lifecycle traceability.
• Experience with model-based systems engineering, architecture modeling, or verification and validation.
• Experience using automation, static analysis, or AI-assisted techniques to improve requirements discovery or quality.
• Experience in utility, energy-market, or another high-availability operational environment.

• Robust Health Insurance
• 401(k) plan
• PTO
• Paid holidays

 
About Theoris:
Our goal is to Fuel Your Career! As a Theoris team member, you join a culture based on people-centered values and an environment that fosters both personal and professional growth. We build long-term relationships with our clients and our consultants. With over 30 years of building strong relationships in the industry, we’re uniquely positioned to make the right connections. This knowledge is used to find the right job placement. Our recruiting teams are experts dedicated to the information technology and engineering staffing space and are highly respected by our client base.