You will be part of a team responsible for system-of-systems integration, requirements traceability and integrity across the program, V&V support, and the development of program-wide standards and templates. This is a hands-on senior engineering role — you will be expected to own assigned tasks, produce high-quality artifacts, and operate independently, while providing advisory guidance to leadership and stakeholders when needed.
This position is on-site in Herndon, VA.
Key Responsibilities
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
Design and implement requirements schemas that establish the structural foundation for traceability across the program, ensuring consistent taxonomy, attribute definitions, and linkage conventions that support end-to-end traceability and audit readiness
Understand and apply the relationship between requirements and enterprise architecture artifacts — including DoDAF views and diagrams — to ensure requirements are grounded in and traceable to the broader architectural context; contribute to the program's evolution toward a digital engineering ecosystem where requirements, architecture, and verification evidence are interconnected and model-driven
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 an integrated requirements baseline that harmonizes customer, derived, interface, and vendor/subcontractor requirements into a single authoritative source of truth; identify and resolve conflicts, gaps, overlaps, and ambiguities across organizational and vendor boundaries
Build and maintain end-to-end bidirectional traceability — from mission needs through system requirements, subsystem allocations, design artifacts, test procedures, and verification evidence — ensuring coverage is complete, current, and audit-ready at all lifecycle stages; maintain allocation matrices tracking ownership and compliance status across all contributors
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; proactively identify and drive resolution of integration issues, discrepancies, and gaps that could affect system coherence or compliance
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; manage configuration control to ensure baselined requirements are change-controlled, versioned, and synchronized with program CM processes
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
Review and assess vendor and subcontractor requirements artifacts — specifications, ICDs, compliance matrices — 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 in support of FCA/PCA activities
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
Interface with both government customers and internal stakeholders — including engineering teams, subcontractors, and program leadership — to communicate requirements status, surface and resolve requirements, traceability, and integration issues, and drive alignment across organizational boundaries; able to engage in requirements elicitation discussions and translate operational concepts into well-formed engineering requirements when the situation calls for it
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
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
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 — not just directing — 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; familiarity with Jama Connect is particularly relevant to this program
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 — and how requirements evolve, decompose, and get allocated across that continuum; includes 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 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 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
Preferred Qualifications
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
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Target Salary Range $135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Benefits Statement
Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.
Application Statements The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate’s own.
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