OverviewDecisionPoint seeks a Mission Liaison / Requirements Analyst to support Navy and Marine Corps accession-processing requirements for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This role works directly with Government mission owners, accession-processing stakeholders, users, business analysts, software teams, testers, trainers, and other technical personnel to translate mission needs and business rules into actionable software requirements.
The Mission Liaison / Requirements Analyst elicits and documents requirements, develops user stories and acceptance criteria, and maintains traceability throughout the software-development lifecycle. The analyst also supports sprint demonstrations, user acceptance testing, feedback triage, training updates, and the development of user guidance.
This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.
Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.
Duties & Responsibilities
The Mission Liaison / Requirements Analyst will:
- Engage Navy, Marine Corps, USMEPCOM, and other Government stakeholders to understand accession-processing needs, workflows, constraints, and business rules.
- Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and maintain functional and mission requirements.
- Translate operational needs and business rules into clear, actionable user stories, use cases, process flows, and acceptance criteria.
- Work with mission owners, product stakeholders, developers, testers, and trainers to clarify requirements and resolve questions.
- Maintain the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and ensure traceability among mission needs, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, test cases, defects, training materials, and released capabilities.
- Support backlog refinement and assess user stories for clarity, completeness, testability, dependencies, and readiness.
- Identify conflicting requirements, workflow gaps, dependencies, risks, and unresolved stakeholder decisions.
- Support sprint planning, reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and other Agile delivery activities.
- Prepare mission stakeholders and users for sprint demonstrations and capability reviews.
- Capture demonstration feedback and translate approved changes into requirements, user stories, backlog updates, or action items.
- Support user acceptance testing by developing acceptance criteria, reviewing test scenarios, coordinating user participation, and documenting results.
- Triage user feedback, defects, enhancement requests, and operational concerns in coordination with Government and technical teams.
- Verify that delivered capabilities satisfy approved requirements and documented acceptance criteria.
- Support updates to user guides, job aids, training materials, release notes, and other user-facing documentation.
- Coordinate with training personnel to ensure that materials accurately reflect approved workflows and released functionality.
- Assist with release-readiness activities, operational validation, and communications to affected mission stakeholders.
- Prepare meeting materials, briefings, decision papers, workflow documentation, meeting minutes, and status reports.
- Maintain organized and accurate requirements artifacts in Government-approved repositories and collaboration platforms.
- Support continuous improvement of requirements-management, traceability, user-feedback, and acceptance processes.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Candidates must possess all the following:
- An active Secret clearance or higher.
- A bachelor27s degree in information systems, business, or a related field, or an equivalent permitted by the applicable labor category.
- At least six years of relevant professional experience.
- Experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating, and maintaining business or system requirements.
- Experience developing and refining user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Experience maintaining requirements traceability across the software-development lifecycle.
- Experience working with mission stakeholders, users, developers, testers, trainers, and other cross-functional delivery personnel.
- Ability to analyze complex workflows and translate operational needs and business rules into clear, testable requirements.
- Ability to support backlog refinement, sprint demonstrations, user acceptance testing, and feedback triage.
- Ability to develop clear process documentation, requirements artifacts, user guidance, and stakeholder communications.
- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, analytical, and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple requirements, stakeholder inputs, dependencies, and action items in a structured delivery environment.
Preferred Qualifications
The following qualifications are preferred:
- A business analysis or Agile certification, such as Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA), Entry Certificate in Business Analysis (ECBA), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe certification, or an equivalent credential.
- Experience supporting military accession processing, recruiting, personnel processing, or related Navy or Marine Corps workflows.
- Experience supporting another highly regulated, rules-driven, or audit-sensitive operational workflow.
- Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software-development or modernization programs.
- Experience maintaining a Requirements Traceability Matrix and connecting requirements to test cases, defects, training materials, and release artifacts.
- Experience developing or updating user guides, job aids, release notes, training materials, or related operational documentation.
- Familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, or comparable requirements and collaboration platforms.
- Familiarity with Agile, DevSecOps, systems-engineering, and secure software-development practices.
- Knowledge of user acceptance testing, defect triage, release readiness, and change-management processes.
