Senior Systems Validation Engineer

Position Summary

Senior Systems Validation Engineer responsible for managing and maintaining traceability between customer and internal requirements, prioritizing road systems and map features, and establishing clear feature definitions and success criteria.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Collect, manage and maintain traceability between customer and internal specifications.
• Prioritize road systems and map features across customers, data availability, internal goals and several conflicting inputs.
• Generate and disseminate formal definitions for all map features.
• Work with engineering teams to maintain deadlines for map production and ensure quality assurance across the map features.
• Work in team to develop success criteria for all map features.
• Work in team to develop testing procedures for automated validation of map building efforts.
• Collect, index, validate and store diverse datasets for the regression targeting each map feature.
• Mentoring coworkers on best practices and requirement gathering.
• Ability to present to both internal and external customers.
• Work with internal teams to perform trade studies to evaluate new methods and technologies to improve efficiency while maintaining requirement compliance and quality targets.
• Develop validation methods for new content and new technologies
• Capable of performing validation activities as required

Skills, Qualifications, and Competencies

• Bachelor’s Degree with major course work in GIS, geography, planning, computer science, information technology, or a related discipline or Bachelor’s Degree in engineering with focus on Production/Manufacturing
• (5) years of professional experience in either GIS mapping or Data Quality Management.
• Strong understanding of change management processes and production workflows
• Experience with process documentation and process mapping
• Proven ability to perform root cause analysis
• Experience using structured problem-solving methodologies (e.g., 8D)
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Analytical mindset with focus on data quality and customer impact

Preferred

• Experience in database-driven production environments
• Knowledge of production release or publishing workflows
• Continuous improvement experience (Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies)

Assets

• Experience in GIS or map building areas is a plus.
• Automotive or sensor experience is a plus.
• Experience with robotics or automated vehicular controls is a plus

Work Environment

• Works in a fast-paced office environment with multiple priorities and competing demands.
• Regular office hours with some requirements for additional work during busy times.
• May work for long periods reviewing data on computer.

Disclaimer

This job description is not designed to be a complete list of all activities required to be successful in the above position. DMP NA retains the right to change or assign other activities to this position.