Requirements Integration Officer

Redhorse Corporation is seeking a highly experienced Requirements Integration Officer to manage the full lifecycle of requirements for critical IT solutions projects. This role involves eliciting, analyzing, validating, and tracing technical and business requirements, ensuring alignment with Agile development practices and mission objectives. The officer will serve as a crucial link between stakeholders, end-users, and technical delivery teams, utilizing tools like JIRA and Confluence to ensure clarity, compliance, and successful delivery within mission-critical environments.

Must Have

• Manage the complete requirements lifecycle for IT solutions.
• Align requirements with Agile sprint planning and SDLC.
• Facilitate requirements discussions and stakeholder interviews.
• Collaborate with systems engineers, developers, and integrators.
• Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Support process improvement and ensure IT systems compliance.
• Develop and maintain detailed systems documentation.
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
• 10+ years in requirements management for technical IT solutions.
• 6 years in a specialized role (Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, Integrator).
• Extensive Agile requirements management and sprint planning experience.
• Demonstrated experience in requirements elicitation, analysis, and validation.

Good to Have

• Master's degree in Systems Engineering or related technical field.
• 10+ years experience within the Intelligence Community (IC).
• Experience designing and documenting information systems using DoDAF architecture models.
• Experience supporting technical IT development teams in the IC environment.
• Experience with successful execution of process improvement initiatives.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced and meticulous Requirements Integration Officer to drive the full lifecycle of requirements management for critical IT solutions projects. This role requires a specialist who can expertly elicitate, analyze, validate, and trace technical and business requirements, ensuring they are perfectly aligned with Agile development practices and mission objectives. The Lead Engineer will serve as the crucial link between stakeholders, end-users, and technical delivery teams, using established tools like JIRA and Confluence to ensure clarity, compliance, and successful delivery within mission-critical environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Requirements Lifecycle Management: Serve as the lead engineer responsible for the complete requirements lifecycle: elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation, verification, and traceability, ensuring all stakeholder needs for the IT solutions are comprehensively met.
• Agile Alignment: Directly align refined requirements to the team’s Agile sprint planning and provide critical support to IT development teams throughout the entire System Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Stakeholder Facilitation: Facilitate requirements discussions, conduct detailed stakeholder interviews, and manage all documentation necessary to capture and refine complex technical and business needs.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with systems engineers, software developers, and integrators to ensure requirements seamlessly translate into achievable design, development, and deployment objectives.
• Documentation & Tool Proficiency: Utilize industry-standard tools, including JIRA, Confluence, and the Microsoft Office Suite, for requirements tracking, robust documentation, and effective team collaboration.
• Process Improvement & Compliance: Support internal process improvement initiatives related to requirements management and IT systems development. Ensure requirements and documentation adhere to security, IT systems administration, and software development standards.
• System Documentation: Develop and maintain detailed systems documentation, including DoDAF architecture models and views where applicable, to ensure clarity and full understanding of the system structure

Required Qualifications

• Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph is required.
• Experience & Education (Tier 1): Bachelor’s Degree in Systems Engineering or a related technical field AND 10 years of direct experience in requirements management for technical IT solutions projects.
• Experience & Education (Tier 2): OR High School Diploma AND 15 years of combined experience in requirements management for technical IT solutions projects, System/software development, IT systems administration, and cybersecurity compliance.
• Specialized Role Experience: 6 years of experience in a specialized role such as a Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, or Systems Integrator.
• Agile Expertise: Extensive experience with Agile requirements management and sprint planning for technical IT development teams.
• Requirements Execution: Demonstrated experience conducting requirements elicitation, analysis, traceability, validation, verification, documentation, and the alignment of requirements to Agile sprints for complex IT systems.
• Facilitation Skills: Proven experience facilitating requirements discussion and stakeholder interviews, ensuring robust documentation, coordination, analysis, traceability, verification, and validation of resulting IT system requirements.
• Tool Proficiency: Expertise and proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office, JIRA, and Confluence.

Desired Experience

• Advanced Degree: Master's degree in any of the above-listed fields.
• IC Experience:10+ years experience working within the Intelligence Community (IC).
• Architecture Modeling: Experience designing and documenting information systems utilizing DoDAF architecture models and views.
• IC Team Support: Experience successfully supporting technical IT development teams in the IC environment.
• Process Execution: Experience with the successful execution of process improvement initiatives.

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