Senior Requirements Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Requirements Engineer

Description

You will bridge editorial, product, and business operations with engineering, treating both end users and internal solution users as your customers. You will capture needs, formulate use cases, and structure requirements into clear, testable deliverables. You will continuously validate requirements and raise the bar on quality, efficiency, and modern requirements-engineering processes.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with stakeholders across editorial, product management, marketing, and sales to identify needs

• Formulate use cases and structure requirements

• Create precise requirement documentation, user stories, epics, and features with clear acceptance criteria

• Prioritize requirements considering business value, feasibility, and available resources

• Collaborate with UX/UI, Data Science, and Engineering to ensure usability, performance, data protection, and scalability

• Critically review work from external service providers and provide constructive feedback

• Drive efficient, high-quality, innovative delivery

• Validate requirements continuously through reviews, tests, and user feedback

• Help establish and evolve process standards for requirements engineering; introduce best practices and modern tools

• Identify uncertainties, assumptions, and dependencies early and define measures to minimize risk

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Media Informatics, Business Informatics, Engineering, or comparable qualification

• Multiple years of experience as Requirements Engineer, Business Analyst, or similar role (ideally in media or digital products)

• Strong analytical skills and ability to present complex topics clearly and structured

• Confident use of agile methods (Scrum or Kanban)

• Solid understanding of software architecture, data models, and interfaces

• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Miro, requirements management tools, or comparable systems

• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Very good German and English skills (written and spoken)

• Availability to work onsite regularly (about 2–3 days per week)

Benefits

• Competitive compensation

• Large scope of responsibility with room for independent decisions

• Hybrid work (partially mobile)

• 30 vacation days

• Secure job in a large German media group with ongoing digital growth

• Regular team events

• Individual training and further education via the MADSACK Medien Campus

• Subsidized, regional seasonal cafeteria

• Free parking

• Discounted public transport tickets

• Company pension via salary conversion

• Discounted subscription to media brands

• Opportunity to place ads for free