Lead Requirements Analyst

Five Stones Research Corporation•Portsmouth, VA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Five Stones Research Corporation (5SRC) is seeking energetic candidates to join our established and growing Huntsville-headquartered team. THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD. This role involves leading and coordinating a team performing requirements development, analysis, management, documentation, and communication activities supporting Coast Guard C5I programs. The Lead Requirements Analyst will collaborate with Government personnel, system engineers, technical leads, and stakeholders to develop, refine, and maintain system requirements and requirements baselines. Responsibilities include developing high-quality requirements, specifications, and supporting documentation, conducting elicitation activities, analyzing and managing requirements throughout the lifecycle, and maintaining requirements data in Government-approved Systems. The role also involves developing supporting artifacts, identifying requirements gaps and risks, producing reports and metrics, supporting the Enterprise Requirements Library, providing technical guidance to junior analysts, preparing project status updates, and participating in technical meetings and reviews. Travel within CONUS is expected.

Requirements

Associate degree in a technical, engineering, business, information technology, or related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and directly related experience.
Minimum of five (5) years of experience supporting requirements development, requirements analysis, requirements management, or requirements documentation for complex technical or information systems.
Experience leading or coordinating technical teams and managing work assignments and deliverables.
Demonstrated proficiency in requirements development, analysis, management, and documentation.
Experience working collaboratively with Government customers, engineers, technical leads, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Experience using LAUNCH PAD or a comparable enterprise Requirements Management System.
Experience developing and maintaining requirements traceability, requirements baselines, and configuration-controlled documentation.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare technical reports, briefings, and requirements documentation.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and SharePoint).
Ability to work effectively in a hybrid work environment and travel within CONUS as required.
Active Department of Defense (DoD) Secret security clearance.
U.S. Citizenship required.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in a technical, engineering, business, or related discipline.
Experience supporting the U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security, or other Federal Government organizations.
Experience supporting Systems Engineering Life Cycle (SELC) activities.
Experience developing Functional Requirements Documents (FRDs), Operational Requirements Documents (ORDs), System Requirements Documents (SRDs), Interface Control Documents (ICDs), or similar engineering artifacts.
Familiarity with requirements modeling techniques, UML, SysML, or LML.
Experience supporting C5I, enterprise IT, or systems engineering programs.
Experience briefing technical information to Government stakeholders and senior leadership.

Responsibilities

Lead and coordinate a team performing requirements development, analysis, management, documentation, and communication activities supporting Coast Guard C5I programs.
Collaborate with Government personnel, system engineers, technical leads, and stakeholders to develop, refine, and maintain system requirements and requirements baselines.
Develop high-quality requirements, specifications, and supporting documentation in accordance with established engineering and C5ISC standards.
Conduct requirements elicitation activities through meetings, interviews, technical discussions, document reviews, and stakeholder engagement.
Analyze, organize, validate, and maintain requirements to ensure completeness, consistency, traceability, and compliance with applicable standards.
Manage requirements throughout the lifecycle, including baseline development, change control, configuration management, and traceability.
Maintain requirements data within Government-approved Requirements Management Systems, including LAUNCH PAD and associated repositories.
Develop and maintain requirements models, work breakdown structures, use cases, templates, data dictionaries, and other supporting artifacts.
Identify requirements gaps, conflicts, dependencies, risks, and data deficiencies, and develop recommendations for resolution and continuous improvement.
Produce reports, metrics, briefings, templates, and other documentation supporting requirements management activities and program decision-making.
Support the development and maintenance of Enterprise Requirements Library content, requirements inventories, and associated documentation.
Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and quality assurance oversight to junior analysts and project team members.
Prepare project status updates, level-of-effort estimates, risk assessments, and recommendations for Government leadership.
Participate in on-site and virtual technical meetings, Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), reviews, and working groups.
Perform CONUS travel, as required, to support customer meetings, collaboration activities, and program execution.