Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer

Peraton•Herndon, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Peraton is seeking an experienced Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer within our Systems Engineering organization to lead the elicitation, integration, management, and traceability of requirements across a large-scale federal program. In Peraton's role as a systems integrator, this position is the linchpin that ensures requirements flowing from the government customer, internal engineering teams, subcontractors, and vendor product specifications are captured, harmonized, and maintained as a single coherent baseline — not as disconnected fragments scattered across organizational boundaries. You will own the authoritative requirements baseline for the integrated program. This means resolving conflicts between competing stakeholder needs, closing gaps where no one has claimed ownership, eliminating ambiguities that would otherwise surface as integration defects, and maintaining the traceability thread that connects mission intent to allocated responsibility. In an integration environment where dozens of contributors deliver against different subsets of requirements, your work is what ensures the whole adds up to more than the sum of its parts. This postion will be located in Herndon, VA.

Requirements

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 experience serving as a requirements lead within a systems integrator environment, managing requirements integration and traceability across multi-vendor, multi-technology solutions
Deep expertise in requirements engineering practices — elicitation, analysis, specification, decomposition, allocation, and management — applied to complex system-of-systems 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
Solid understanding of systems engineering lifecycle processes and formal review milestones (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FCA/PCA)
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 that must be integrated into the broader requirements baseline
Experience supporting federal or DoD programs with complex multi-contractor requirements integration challenges
Background in mission-critical or safety-critical systems where requirements completeness and traceability directly impact operational safety and mission success
ITIL certification and experience aligning requirements management with ITSM and configuration management workflows
Proven ability to lead cross-functional coordination across systems engineering, software development, test, cybersecurity, and operations teams

Nice To Haves

Experience with requirements engineering for aviation, air traffic management, or national airspace systems and familiarity with aviation-specific safety assurance and certification requirements (e.g., DO-178C, DO-254, ARP 4754A)
Background in model-based systems engineering (MBSE) — 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
Experience with cloud environment requirements — specifying and allocating requirements for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government)
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, IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering, TOGAF, or PMP

Responsibilities

Lead the elicitation, analysis, and documentation of system, subsystem, and interface requirements from government stakeholders, mission concept documents, standards, and operational needs
Conduct stakeholder needs analysis to translate high-level mission objectives and operational concepts into well-formed, actionable engineering requirements
Perform requirements decomposition and allocation across the integrated system architecture, mapping high-level mission requirements to specific components — custom-developed, COTS, GOTS, and third-party vendor systems — with clear ownership and accountability
Establish and enforce requirements quality standards — completeness, correctness, consistency, testability, feasibility, and unambiguity — across all requirements authored by internal teams, subcontractors, and vendors
Develop and maintain integrated requirements baselines that harmonize customer requirements, derived engineering requirements, interface requirements, and vendor/subcontractor specification commitments into a single, authoritative source of truth
Identify and resolve requirements conflicts and gaps across organizational and vendor boundaries in multi-contractor integration environments
Define and manage interface requirements and contribute to interface control documents (ICDs), ensuring that data exchanges, protocols, performance expectations, and behavioral contracts between integrated components are fully specified and agreed upon
Coordinate requirements negotiations between government customers, internal engineering teams, and subcontractors when competing needs, technical constraints, or resource limitations require trade-offs
Conduct requirements impact analysis for proposed changes, evaluating cross-system effects across multi-vendor components and supporting Configuration Control Board (CCB) decisions with requirements-level evidence
Build and maintain end-to-end requirements traceability — from mission/stakeholder needs through system requirements, subsystem allocations, design artifacts, test procedures, and verification evidence — using requirements management tools (IBM DOORS, DOORS Next, Jama Connect, or equivalent)
Ensure bidirectional traceability is complete and current, enabling rapid impact analysis, coverage assessment, and audit readiness at any point in the systems engineering lifecycle
Manage requirements configuration control, ensuring that baselined requirements are change-controlled, versioned, and synchronized with the program's configuration management processes
Maintain allocation matrices that clearly map every requirement to its responsible owner — whether internal team, subcontractor, or vendor — and track allocation acceptance and compliance status
Generate traceability metrics and reports — requirements coverage, allocation completeness, open TBDs/TBRs, change activity, and baseline health — for program leadership, government stakeholders, and engineering teams
Participate in architecture and design reviews (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR) to evaluate requirements adequacy, allocation correctness, and traceability completeness at each lifecycle milestone
Review and assess vendor and subcontractor requirements artifacts — specifications, ICDs, compliance matrices — to ensure alignment with the integrated requirements baseline and program standards
Collaborate with enterprise architects, software architects, cybersecurity teams, data architects, and test engineers to ensure requirements are complete, allocable, and verifiable across all technical domains
Support functional and physical configuration audits (FCA/PCA) by providing requirements traceability evidence and allocation documentation
Translate complex requirements integration challenges, traceability gaps, and allocation risks into clear, actionable guidance for program leadership, government customers, and non-technical audiences
Mentor and guide systems engineers, subcontractor requirements staff, and junior analysts in requirements engineering best practices, traceability discipline, and integration methodology