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Job Description:
Parsons is seeking a Requirements Analysis Lead for a cybersecurity support program. If you are passionate about managing requirements to help ensure the success of a large cybersecurity organization, this role offers a strong next step in your career.
As a Requirements Analysis Lead, you will be helping to maintain and continually improve the customer’s requirements management process. You'll also get to provide detailed requirement analysis support to help gather, analyze, validate, de-duplicate, and help adjudicate requirements coming into the cybersecurity organization. You’ll get the chance to collaborate closely with experienced cybersecurity experts and customer leadership to help improve the overall success of the entire requirement management process.
You’ll be joining Parsons’ local Analytics & Engineering team, a community known for its strong culture of defensive cyber operations, technical excellence, and collaboration. We invest in both mission success and team connection through regular social events, technical talks, training opportunities, and hands-on innovation activities at our Cybersecurity Center of Excellence Lab in Columbia, MD. From team lunches and ice cream socials to family-friendly seasonal events and technical learning sessions, we work hard to create an environment where people can do meaningful work and enjoy being part of the team.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Lead and continuously improve the customer’s requirements-management process.
- Establish and maintain requirements-management procedures, templates, workflows, standards, and best practices.
- Receive, organize, categorize, and analyze requirements submitted by cybersecurity stakeholders.
- Facilitate requirements elicitation sessions, interviews, working groups, and stakeholder reviews.
- Analyze requirements for clarity, completeness, consistency, feasibility, priority, risk, and alignment with mission objectives.
- Identify and resolve duplicate, conflicting, ambiguous, obsolete, or unverifiable requirements.
- Support the adjudication and prioritization of competing requirements in coordination with customer leadership and technical stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain requirements traceability from mission needs through implementation, validation, and acceptance.
- Ensure requirements are written in a clear, concise, measurable, and testable manner.
- Maintain requirements repositories, databases, dashboards, and supporting documentation.
- Track requirements status, ownership, dependencies, decisions, changes, and approval history.
- Support requirements change control, impact analysis, configuration management, and baseline management.
- Develop reports, briefings, metrics, and recommendations for Government and program leadership.
- Identify trends, process gaps, and opportunities to improve requirements quality and organizational efficiency.
- Coordinate across technical, operational, acquisition, and leadership stakeholders to promote shared understanding and timely decision-making.
- Mentor analysts and help establish consistent requirements-engineering practices across the organization.
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
- TS/SCI clearance current/active
- 8+ years of relevant requirements experience
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, business, systems analysis, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
- Demonstrated experience managing requirements across the full lifecycle, including elicitation, analysis, validation, prioritization, approval, traceability, change control, and verification.
- Experience working with cybersecurity, information technology, intelligence, defense, or other complex technical programs.
- Experience facilitating meetings and working groups with technical experts, Government stakeholders, leadership, and customers.
- Strong analytical, writing, communication, organizational, and presentation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, stakeholders, and competing requirements.
- Experience using requirements-management, workflow, ticketing, database, or collaboration tools.
What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
- Experience supporting Air Force, intelligence community, or federal cybersecurity missions.
- Experience with systems engineering or requirements frameworks, such as:
- INCOSE practices
- Agile or Scrum
- DevSecOps
- Capability-based planning
- Mission engineering
- Model-based systems engineering
- Experience developing requirements traceability matrices, capability maps, process models, data models, or operational views.
- Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, IBM DOORS, Jama, Polarion, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, or equivalent platforms.
- Certification such as Certified Systems Engineering Professional, PMI Professional in Business Analysis, Certified Scrum Product Owner, or equivalent.
- Experience developing requirements metrics, quality-assurance criteria, dashboards, and executive-level briefings.
- Experience leading process-improvement initiatives or organizational change.
Security Clearance Requirement:
An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.Salary Range: $103,500.00 - $181,100.00We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance
- 8+ years of relevant requirements experience
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, business, systems analysis, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered
- Experience managing requirements across the full lifecycle, including elicitation, analysis, validation, prioritization, approval, traceability, change control, and verification
- Experience working with cybersecurity, information technology, intelligence, defense, or other complex technical programs
- Experience facilitating meetings and working groups with technical experts, government stakeholders, leadership, and customers
- Strong analytical, writing, communication, organizational, and presentation skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, stakeholders, and competing requirements
- Experience using requirements-management, workflow, ticketing, database, or collaboration tools
- Experience supporting Air Force, intelligence community, or federal cybersecurity missions
- Experience with systems engineering or requirements frameworks, including INCOSE, Agile, Scrum, DevSecOps, capability-based planning, mission engineering, or model-based systems engineering
- Experience developing requirements traceability matrices, capability maps, process models, data models, or operational views
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, IBM DOORS, Jama, Polarion, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, or equivalent platforms
- Certification such as Certified Systems Engineering Professional, PMI Professional in Business Analysis, Certified Scrum Product Owner, or equivalent
- Experience developing requirements metrics, quality-assurance criteria, dashboards, and executive-level briefings
- Experience leading process-improvement initiatives or organizational change
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are framed as a major value driver, with an ESOP alongside a 401(k) match and additional stock-purchase options contributing meaningfully to total rewards. This structure is positioned as especially attractive for employees who value long-term wealth-building over immediate cash.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and choice-rich, with multiple plan types (PPO, HDHP, and some HMO networks) plus dental, vision, EAP, and wellness resources. The availability of different plan designs and national-carrier coverage supports varied employee needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as competitive, including PTO, holidays, flexible schedules such as a 9/80 option for eligible roles, and floating holidays in the U.S. Paid parental leave of 160 hours is also highlighted as a meaningful component of the overall package.
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What We Do
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com. Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
