Senior Systems Requirements Engineer

Overview

Agratas is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons. We design, develop and manufacture high-quality, high-performance, sustainable batteries for the mobility and energy sectors. We are a scale-up business with a start-up mentality and the backing of a well-established parent company. The UK business headquarters are in the Midlands and we are building a battery manufacturing facility in Somerset, with R&D facilities in Abingdon and Coventry.

Our battery technology roadmap focuses on world-class solutions for multiple applications, industrialising best-in-class high energy density and long-lasting battery cells, and developing the next generation of battery technologies.

Role

The Senior Systems Requirement Engineer is a crucial role in the Systems Team. This role requires a high level of analytical and critical thinking. It is responsible for leading requirements engineering activities within the scope of a defined project, including coordination of resources, planning timelines, and delivering engineering milestones, while supporting team and company initiatives with a similar approach. The Senior Systems Requirements Engineer will directly impact the company’s ability to design, develop, and deliver safe, reliable, and high-performance battery systems to customers. This is a hybrid working role based in our Coventry office, offering an opportunity to shape the future of sustainable energy solutions in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead elicitation, documentation, analysis, and management of system and sub-system requirements from stakeholders and standards.
• Ensure traceability across safety, mechanical, hardware, software, and test domains using ALM tools (e.g., DOORS, Polarion).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to decompose and refine system requirements.
• Maintain high-quality requirements following industry best practices.
• Mentor engineers on requirements writing and traceability.
• Manage change control, impact assessments, and configuration tracking.
• Prepare and maintain specifications, traceability matrices, and change logs.
• Drive continuous improvement of requirements processes and tools.
• Support traceability into system architecture and validation planning.
• Work with testing teams to align test cases with requirements.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 26262, ISO 21434, and ASPICE standards.
• Support automated quality checks and requirements baselining.
• Participate in technical reviews, safety audits, and analyses (HARA, TARA, FMEA).
• Promote best practices and continuous process improvement.

Qualifications And Experience

• Proven experience in systems/requirements engineering within automotive, aerospace, high-voltage battery systems, or embedded systems.
• Degree in a relevant field: Systems, Electrical, Mechanical, Automotive Engineering, Mechatronics, or equivalent.
• Proven track record in requirements engineering, especially in EV battery systems.
• Strong grasp of requirements management principles, including elicitation, documentation, validation, and change control.
• Proficient in requirements tools such as Polarion or DOORS.
• Solid understanding of ASPICE, ISO 15288, and traceability between ALM and system modeling environments.
• Familiarity with functional safety (ISO 26262) and cybersecurity (ISO 21434) and their impact on system requirements.
• Working knowledge of MBSE (Model-Based Systems Engineering) methodologies.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across cross-functional, multi-cultural teams.
• Ability to lead tasks independently and influence cross-functional development.
• Certification in IREB CPRE, INCOSE SEP, or similar is advantageous.
• Experience with Tier 1 automotive suppliers is a plus.

What You’ll Get

As a new company, our reward scheme is constantly evolving. We continue to review the market to deliver a competitive benefits package, which currently includes private healthcare, company bonus, enhanced parental leave policy and a cash allowance to boost your benefits. We are a flexible business that is committed to promoting work-life balance, partnering with Yulife to provide our team members with total wellbeing support.

You’ll work in a rapidly scaling-up environment as a subsidiary of the multinational corporation, Tata Sons, to help build the UK’s biggest battery manufacturing facility and make your mark in a new organisation.

Agratas is a place to be authentically you. At Agratas we strongly believe that people are at their best when they feel supported and happy in their workplace. We therefore warmly welcome applicants from any race, gender, sexuality, and ability. Should you have a preference in how your suitability is assessed for this role or require any reasonable adjustments please let the Talent Acquisition team know.

Location and Recruitment Notes

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Walsall, Coventry and other UK locations are listed for recruitment visibility in this posting.