Requirements Systems Engineer

Modern Technology Solutions, Inc.•Colorado Springs, CO

36d•Hybrid

About The Position

Support the management of the technical baseline throughout the portfolio and formal configuration management process. Facilitate requirements development and analysis across the enterprise and stakeholders. Manages requirements deviations and waivers from prime contractors/OEMs. Perform systems engineering and program management functions in support of major reviews, technical evaluations, and requirements verification. Performing requirements decomposition derived from governing documents such as CNS, ICD, CDD, etc. Using current best practices for assessing and prioritizing the requirements to ensure they are feasible, clear, and aligned with mission requirements/metrics for development activities. Establishing traceability matrices to track requirements throughout each individual system's lifecycle, ensuring that all requirements are addressed in the final deliverable. Documenting functional and non-functional requirements, use cases, and specifications. Allocating performance specifications and requirements to development activities. Interfacing and coordinating with stakeholders to ensure technical accuracy and verify correct capture of requirements for inclusion in requirements documents. Liaising between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders to ensure a shared understanding of the requirements. Coordinate and participate in technical meetings, generate requirements products as defined by the customer and stakeholders. Validating requirements through completeness, consistency, validity, realism, ambiguity, and verifiability checks. Performing cross-organization requirements satisfaction assessments, identifying alternative options for closing on the total requirements scope. Supporting requirements allocation excursions to include recommending requirement allocation to external parties where appropriate. Coordinating requirements allocation and status of delivery against requirements with both internal and external stakeholders. Managing changes to requirements throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that all stakeholders are informed and that changes are documented and analyzed for impact. Maintain a tracking tool of all ongoing requirements and change requests for leadership situational awareness. Updating the contents of the requirements database to align with approved database changes, additions, and closures.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of relevant requirements breakdown and tracing experience.
Experience analyzing and resolving proposed technical changes to the technical baseline (i.e., interface documents, specifications documents, architecture products).
Demonstrated experience managing multiple tech baseline portfolios across an enterprise portfolio.
Demonstrated experience with the management of database tools (DOORS, Access, Jira, SQL).
Demonstrated understanding of systems engineering practices, techniques, and procedures.
Experience working with DoD or IC acquisition organizations.
Experience working specifically on a Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test contract.
Experience working with Space Systems Command and/or Space Operations Command.
Understanding software-related topics such as database design, content management systems, and enterprise service bus architecture.
Familiarity with DevSecOps implementation and execution.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines executing in parallel.
Experience with requirements development using MBSE methodology and/or integrating requirements database with MBSE artifacts (e.g., Datahub).
B.S. in engineering, mathematics, physics, or related scientific discipline.
Security Clearance Level Required: An active TS/SCI security clearance is required to start, and you must be eligible for Special Access Program (SAP). (At least 2 years of TS/SCI experience required).
U.S. Citizenship is required for this position.

Nice To Haves

MS in related discipline (desired).

Responsibilities

Support the management of the technical baseline throughout the portfolio and formal configuration management process.
Facilitate requirements development and analysis across the enterprise and stakeholders.
Manages requirements deviations and waivers from prime contractors/OEMs.
Perform systems engineering and program management functions in support of major reviews, technical evaluations, and requirements verification.
Performing requirements decomposition derived from governing documents such as CNS, ICD, CDD, etc.
Using current best practices for assessing and prioritizing the requirements to ensure they are feasible, clear, and aligned with mission requirements/metrics for development activities.
Establishing traceability matrices to track requirements throughout each individual system's lifecycle, ensuring that all requirements are addressed in the final deliverable.
Documenting functional and non-functional requirements, use cases, and specifications.
Allocating performance specifications and requirements to development activities.
Interfacing and coordinating with stakeholders to ensure technical accuracy and verify correct capture of requirements for inclusion in requirements documents.
Liaising between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders to ensure a shared understanding of the requirements.
Coordinate and participate in technical meetings, generate requirements products as defined by the customer and stakeholders.
Validating requirements through completeness, consistency, validity, realism, ambiguity, and verifiability checks.
Performing cross-organization requirements satisfaction assessments, identifying alternative options for closing on the total requirements scope.
Supporting requirements allocation excursions to include recommending requirement allocation to external parties where appropriate.
Coordinating requirements allocation and status of delivery against requirements with both internal and external stakeholders.
Managing changes to requirements throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that all stakeholders are informed and that changes are documented and analyzed for impact.
Maintain a tracking tool of all ongoing requirements and change requests for leadership situational awareness.
Updating the contents of the requirements database to align with approved database changes, additions, and closures.