Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer

Peraton•Herndon, VA

1d•$135,000 - $216,000•Onsite

About The Position

Peraton is seeking an experienced Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer to join their BNATCS Architecture and Systems Engineering group. This role involves performing integration, traceability, and baseline management of requirements for a large-scale federal program. As a key member of a multi-vendor systems integrator program, the engineer will ensure requirements from various sources (government, internal teams, subcontractors, vendors) are captured, harmonized, and maintained as a coherent baseline. This includes resolving conflicts, closing gaps, and maintaining traceability from mission intent to allocated responsibility. The position is hands-on and requires an individual who can own tasks, produce high-quality artifacts, operate independently, and provide guidance to leadership. The role is based on-site in Herndon, VA.

Requirements

US Citizenship
Public Trust Clearance — Ability to Obtain and Maintain
15+ years of experience in requirements engineering, systems engineering, or technical program support within large-scale programs
Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of degree)
Demonstrated hands-on expertise in requirements integration and traceability within a systems integrator environment, with a proven track record of directly performing requirements integration and traceability activities across multi-vendor, multi-technology solutions.
Deep expertise in requirements engineering practices — analysis, specification, decomposition, allocation, and management — applied to complex system-of-systems, mission-critical, or enterprise-scale environments.
Proven experience building and maintaining end-to-end bidirectional traceability across multi-tier requirement hierarchies in integrated programs.
Strong command of requirements management tools — IBM DOORS, DOORS Next, Jama Connect, Polarion, or equivalent — including traceability matrix construction, baselining, and change control.
Hands-on experience resolving requirements conflicts and gaps across organizational and vendor boundaries in multi-contractor integration environments.
Strong understanding of the full systems engineering lifecycle — from mission-level concept and stakeholder needs through system, subsystem, and component-level requirements.
Fluency with formal review milestones (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FCA/PCA) and the requirements artifacts expected at each gate.
Experience with interface requirements definition and contribution to interface control documents (ICDs) for complex integrated systems.
Working knowledge of federal frameworks (NIST, FedRAMP, RMF) as they generate security and compliance requirements.
Experience supporting federal or DoD programs with complex multi-contractor requirements integration challenges.
Background in mission-critical or safety-critical complex systems or system-of-systems environments where requirements completeness and traceability directly impact operational safety and mission success.
Familiarity with ITSM and configuration management workflows, and how requirements management aligns within them.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional coordination across systems engineering, software development, test, cybersecurity, and operations teams.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience with requirements engineering for aviation, air traffic management, or national airspace systems, including working knowledge of aviation-specific safety assurance and certification requirements (e.g., DO-178C, DO-254, ARP 4754A).
Background in model-based systems engineering (MBSE) — familiarity with deriving and managing requirements within SysML/UAF models using tools such as Cameo or Sparx EA.
Experience with AI-assisted requirements analysis — NLP-based quality checking, automated gap detection, conflict identification, and intelligent traceability linking.
Familiarity with requirements integration in Agile and hybrid development environments, including backlog-to-requirements traceability and iterative requirements refinement.
Background in real-time systems, low-latency architectures, and the unique requirements challenges they present (timing, determinism, fault tolerance).
Knowledge of network architecture (SD-WAN, secure transport) requirements specification and allocation in integrated environments.
Relevant certifications such as INCOSE CSEP/ESEP or IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering.
ITIL certification.

Responsibilities

Perform requirements decomposition and allocation across the integrated system architecture, mapping high-level mission requirements to specific components with clear ownership and accountability.
Design and implement requirements schemas that establish the structural foundation for traceability across the program, ensuring consistent taxonomy, attribute definitions, and linkage conventions.
Understand and apply the relationship between requirements and enterprise architecture artifacts (e.g., DoDAF views and diagrams) to ensure requirements are grounded in and traceable to the broader architectural context.
Establish and enforce requirements quality standards (completeness, correctness, consistency, testability, feasibility, and unambiguity) across all requirements.
Develop and maintain an integrated requirements baseline that harmonizes customer, derived, interface, and vendor/subcontractor requirements into a single authoritative source of truth.
Build and maintain end-to-end bidirectional traceability from mission needs through system requirements, subsystem allocations, design artifacts, test procedures, and verification evidence.
Define and manage interface requirements and interface control documents (ICDs), ensuring data exchanges, protocols, performance expectations, and behavioral contracts are fully specified, baselined, and enforced.
Conduct requirements impact analysis for proposed changes, evaluating cross-system effects and supporting Configuration Control Board (CCB) decisions.
Manage configuration control to ensure baselined requirements are change-controlled, versioned, and synchronized with program CM processes.
Generate traceability metrics and reports for program leadership, government stakeholders, and engineering teams.
Review and assess vendor and subcontractor requirements artifacts to ensure alignment with the integrated baseline and program standards.
Participate in architecture and design reviews (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR) and ensure requirements traceability artifacts and allocation documentation are audit-ready for FCA/PCA activities.
Collaborate with enterprise architects, software architects, cybersecurity teams, data architects, and test engineers to ensure requirements are complete, allocable, and verifiable.
Interface with government customers and internal stakeholders to communicate requirements status, surface and resolve issues, and drive alignment.
Translate complex requirements integration challenges, traceability gaps, and allocation risks into clear, actionable guidance for program leadership and government customers.
Mentor systems engineers, subcontractor staff, and junior analysts in requirements engineering best practices and traceability discipline.