Senior Lead Systems Engineer

Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security

At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 30 brands, 12,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. Additionally, in 2024 we were awarded the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award, which recognizes the most engaged workplace cultures in the world.

Senior Lead Systems Engineer

Allegion is looking for a passionate Senior Lead Systems Engineer to work as part of a highly engaged small team within a global organization of 12,000+ employees, representing 30+ brands (including Schlage, Von Duprin and LCN) focused on safety, security and access management.  You’ll work on creating solutions integrating physical products, software, and mobile applications that will enable seamless access and help keep you and your loved ones safe and secure where they work, live and thrive.

Hybrid:

At Allegion, we are driven by a bold vision: redefining safety while empowering our employees to thrive. When you join our team, you become part of a culture that values innovation, purpose, and excellence. This role offers the benefits of our dynamic hybrid work model—combining in-person collaboration for meaningful moments with the flexibility of remote work. Since hybrid arrangements can vary based on the needs of the individual, team and business, your talent acquisition partner will provide specific hybrid details about this role.

We are committed to fostering a healthy work-life balance and building meaningful connections, ensuring you have the tools, resources, and support needed to excel in any environment. Together, we’ll unlock your potential and create a lasting impact.

While this is the current structure and we currently have no plans to change, we reserve the right to make changes to the hybrid schedule as needed at the Company’s discretion.

Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. The company does not intend to provide sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B, TN, etc.) for this employment position.

What you’ll do:

• Work with business and engineering leaders to develop requirements from customer need statements for Commercial market applications across multiple hardware and software products that meet customer, marketing, and internal stakeholder needs.
• Collaborate with business and engineering leaders to decompose and allocate requirements to the correct system elements across hardware and software domains.
• Collaborate with the test teams to define and execute a comprehensive verification and validation plan for all levels of requirements.
• Identify areas of reuse for consistent system behavior across multiple commercial system elements.
• Work directly with multiple project managers and technical leaders to plan and communicate program status, resourcing issues, and schedule expectations throughout the program duration.
• Serve as a key contact with physical product, software, and mobile application teams to deliver coordinated integrations that meet the overall solution schedule milestones.
• Lead technical risk management, structured problem solving, solution verification and validation activities.
• Facilitate Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) activities with the team (i.e. System FMEA  and/or User FMEAs). Leverage the failure mode analysis to create resilient systems with effective error handling and diagnostics.
• Grow Systems Engineering best practices and systems thinking at Allegion through mentorship, training, and driving for common systems engineering processes throughout the Engineering organization.
• Work closely with Software teams to coordinate between software and hardware deliverables.
• Work in a highly collaborative, hybrid work environment.

What you need to succeed:

• BS or higher in Systems, Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field from an ABET accredited university.
• 10+ years work experience in new product development.
• Demonstrated experience in: requirements management, technical risk management, program execution, software development (Agile and/or SAFe), and systems thinking.
• Has demonstrated excellent communication and team leadership skills in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Comfortable with the facilitation of Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) events.
• Exhibits a coaching and mentor mindset.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.
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