Description of Task to be Performed:
The Requirements Engineer will serve as a core member of a multidisciplinary mission team supporting federal law enforcement initiatives to counter transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), cyber-enabled financial crime, digital evidence challenges, and global illicit network activity. This role focuses on eliciting, analyzing, and structuring mission and technical requirements across investigative, forensic, and cyber operations domains.
You will engage directly with stakeholders across our federal customer ecosystem to understand mission workflows, identify capability gaps, assess integration challenges, and translate needs into clear, actionable requirements. This position is ideal for a requirements engineer who excels at stakeholder interviewing, requirements clarification, capability assessment, and shaping development recommendations that drive future mission capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct structured stakeholder interviews and workshops across federal law enforcement, investigative, forensic, and cyber organizations to capture mission needs, constraints, and priorities.
- Analyze mission workflows, organizational processes, and user pain points to identify inefficiencies, gaps, and opportunities for capability enhancement.
- Develop clear, actionable requirements; produce capability decompositions, interface definitions, and mission-aligned workflows.
- Collaborate with developers, analysts, forensic specialists, and mission users to refine, validate, and prioritize requirements through iterative development cycles.
- Provide recommendations regarding future capability development, system improvements, and integration strategies based on stakeholder insights and mission analysis.
- Support system testing and validation efforts by ensuring requirements traceability, participating in test planning, and reviewing results for requirement alignment.
- Contribute to the integration of new capabilities into operational environments, ensuring solutions align with documented needs and mission constraints.
- Produce structured analyses to support technical decision-making, including capability gap analysis, trade studies, and feasibility assessments.
- Contribute to project deliverables, enduring inputs are received in a timely manner to meet customer due dates.
- Assist and mentor team members in applying requirements-engineering best practices and structured analytical methods.
Required Qualifications:
- B.S./B.A. degree and minimum 5+ years of experience in requirements engineering, business analysis, systems engineering, workflow analysis, or related technical/mission-support roles.
- Demonstrated experience eliciting, structuring, and prioritizing complex requirements across cross-functional or mission-driven environments.
- Experience conducting stakeholder interviews, workflow assessments, or capability gap analyses.
- Ability to translate mission needs into clear technical specifications, interface requirements, and workflow documentation.
- Experience supporting development teams and contributing to end-to-end capability delivery processes.
- Experience researching and recommending solutions within federal government environments.
- Familiarity with agile or iterative development approaches and incremental mission capability deployment.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey technical or mission concepts to diverse audiences including engineers, analysts, and operational stakeholders.
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain DHS EOD Suitability
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting federal law enforcement, homeland security, intelligence, or other mission-focused federal environments.
- Experience conducting stakeholder interviews, workflow assessments, or capability gap analyses.
- Experience supporting or contributing to test planning, requirements traceability, or validation/verification activities.
- Understanding of secure-system principles, data integrity requirements, and constraints common to investigative or forensic applications.
- Experience preparing requirements documents, capability gap analyses, workflow models, or integration plans.
- Familiarity with digital forensics, blockchain analysis concepts, investigative workflows, or cyber/technical mission environments.
- Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
- 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
- 100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
- 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
- 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
- Competitive Pay
- Generous paid leave and holiday package
- Tuition and training reimbursement
- Life and AD&D Insurance
Skills Required
- B.S. or B.A. degree
- Minimum 5 years of experience in requirements engineering, business analysis, systems engineering, workflow analysis, or related technical or mission-support roles
- Experience eliciting, structuring, and prioritizing complex requirements in cross-functional or mission-driven environments
- Experience conducting stakeholder interviews, workflow assessments, or capability gap analyses
- Ability to translate mission needs into technical specifications, interface requirements, and workflow documentation
- Experience supporting development teams and end-to-end capability delivery processes
- Experience researching and recommending solutions in federal government environments
- Familiarity with agile or iterative development and incremental capability deployment
- Strong communication skills for technical and mission concepts across diverse audiences
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to obtain DHS EOD Suitability
- Experience supporting federal law enforcement, homeland security, intelligence, or other mission-focused federal environments
- Experience conducting stakeholder interviews, workflow assessments, or capability gap analyses
- Experience supporting test planning, requirements traceability, or validation and verification activities
- Understanding of secure-system principles and data integrity requirements
- Experience preparing requirements documents, capability gap analyses, workflow models, or integration plans
- Familiarity with digital forensics, blockchain analysis, investigative workflows, or cyber and technical mission environments
What We Do
AnaVation is a trusted partner that delivers high-value, cost-effective solutions to solve our customers’ most complex technical and analytical problems. AnaVation believes that the future of securing, collecting, processing, and analyzing cyber data will require the development of advanced ANAlytical technologies derived via the innoVATION of current and future technologies. AnaVation believes in the “Idea of the Possible” — that it is possible for our experts, partnering with our customers in the right environment, to create innovative technical solutions that expand our customers’ capabilities. We want to do two things for our customers. We want to resolve existing challenges and we want to prepare them for the future. Our technical expertise and innovative engineering culture enable us to do those things.
