We are seeking Subject Matter Expert (SME) Requirements Engineer to join our team supporting a large-scale federal modernization program. This role defines, elicits, validates, and manages solution-level functional, technical, operational, security, and performance requirements across complex, interdependent systems, carrying those requirements from initial discovery through architecture, design, testing, deployment, and operations.
This is a hands-on requirements role. You'll be expected to run real elicitation sessions and produce real traceable requirements artifacts, not just coordinate meetings.
This is a hybrid role based out of Washington, DC. Candidates must be U.S. citizens.
Key Responsibilities
1. Requirements Elicitation & Analysis
- Plan and facilitate discovery sessions, interviews, technical working groups, stakeholder reviews, and design reviews.
- Translate business and mission needs into complete, testable, unambiguous functional, technical, operational, security, data, interface, and performance requirements.
2. Traceability & Baselines
- Establish and maintain requirements baselines and traceability from business need through architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and operations.
- Maintain requirements status, completion, changes, dependencies, assumptions, decisions, risks, and supporting evidence.
3. Change Impact Analysis
- Analyze proposed changes and document impacts to architecture, scope, schedule, cost, testing, dependencies, security, and operational readiness.
- Support review and approval workflows for requirements changes.
4. Cross-Team Collaboration
- Partner with project managers, architects, engineers, cybersecurity, testers, and operations to resolve requirements conflicts and gaps.
- Prepare requirements packages, review records, traceability matrices, and recurring status metrics.
5. Quality & Mentorship
- Define templates and quality standards for requirements documentation.
- Review complex requirements work, mentor other engineers, and represent requirements management in governance forums.
Requirements
10+ years of requirements engineering, business analysis, or systems analysis experience, including work on federal or comparably complex enterprise programs.
Demonstrated ability to elicit and document multiple requirement types and convert stakeholder language into measurable acceptance criteria.
Hands-on experience with requirements traceability, baselining, version control, change impact analysis, and review/approval workflows.
Experience supporting the full system development lifecycle, from planning through implementation and operations, not only front-end documentation.
Strong facilitation, analytical writing, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.
U.S. citizenship required.
Benefits
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Skills Required
- 10+ years of requirements engineering, business analysis, or systems analysis experience on federal or comparably complex enterprise programs.
- Proven ability to elicit and document multiple requirement types and convert stakeholder language into measurable acceptance criteria.
- Hands-on experience with requirements traceability, baselining, version control, change impact analysis, and review/approval workflows.
- Experience across the full system development lifecycle from planning through implementation and operations.
- Strong facilitation, analytical writing, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.
- U.S. citizenship.
What We Do
Passion and Purpose. We are a start-up borne out of a group of architects and engineers providing solutions that transform with digital breakthroughs. We Partner - Partnership to us means being all in - on the ground, in the weeds, producing and delivering mission solutions. We Innovate - driving digital innovation and experimentation to improve decision services for the American people. We Engage – co-creating to deliver HCD (human centered design) to solve tour customers digital challenges. We Deliver – and take pride and accountability in everything we do. We are Ignite IT. Ignite IT deploys teams that are customer-obsessed, delivering a CX (Customer Experience) renaissance to our Private and Public Sector customers. We combine Commercial BX (Business of Experience) with customer delivery experts to benefit agencies to innovate and improve services and launch new digital solutions. We have built a company foundation dependent on each of our employee’s success, and provide a healthy, engaging, community where learning and knowledge sharing are encouraged. We empower our employees to be bold, continually innovate and propose new ideas to improve processes and services. We engage daily on work that touches millions of people, always focusing on positive impacts and results. We enable mission services that enable Enterprise companies to succeed in digital transformation, protect Border Agents, deploy the Army Reserve and National Guard, providing decision dominance to make America safer. We apply these digital services across the Private and Public Sectors to include include HHS, DHS, AOUSC and Army. We aim to continually raise the bar for our customers to expect more from their digital services. For more information, visit www.igniteitservices.com
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