About You:

You are a detail-oriented and collaborative requirements management professional who excels at translating mission needs into clear, actionable requirements. You enjoy working with stakeholders, technical teams, and program leaders to ensure everyone is aligned on goals, priorities, and outcomes. With strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills, you can manage complex requirements, maintain traceability throughout the system lifecycle, and help deliver solutions that meet mission objectives. You thrive in a fast-paced environment where accuracy, teamwork, and continuous improvement are critical to success.

Position Overview:

The Requirements Manager (Systems Analyst III) is responsible for leading requirements management activities in support of mission and system objectives. This position supports the collection, analysis, prioritization, documentation, and traceability of functional, non-functional, technical, performance, and programmatic requirements. The individual serves as a key liaison between stakeholders, technical teams, and program leadership to ensure requirements are aligned with approved scope, contractual obligations, and mission outcomes. The position requires maintaining complete requirements documentation and traceability throughout the system lifecycle.

This position is contingent upon contract award, with performance anticipated to begin on or about September 15th, 2026

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the elicitation, collection, and analysis of functional, non-functional, technical, performance, and programmatic requirements from government stakeholders and project teams.
• Analyze and prioritize requirements based on mission goals, operational needs, business objectives, risk factors, and program priorities.
• Develop, document, maintain, and validate requirements throughout the system development lifecycle.
• Ensure requirements align with mission objectives, system capabilities, program scope, and contractual requirements.
• Maintain and manage a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure requirements are properly linked to approved scope, design, development, testing, and implementation artifacts.
• Establish and maintain requirements documentation standards, processes, and procedures.
• Track requirements status, changes, dependencies, and impacts to support configuration management and change control processes.
• Collaborate with program managers, network engineers, architects, developers, testers, and government stakeholders to resolve requirements issues and gaps.
• Conduct requirements reviews, analysis sessions, and stakeholder working groups.
• Support verification and validation activities to ensure implemented capabilities satisfy documented requirements.
• Prepare reports, presentations, and briefings regarding requirements status, risks, and recommendations.
• Utilize government-approved requirements management, tracking, and documentation tools to support program execution.
• Provide subject matter expertise on requirements management best practices and process improvement initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6-8 years of relevant experience in requirements analysis, systems analysis, business analysis, systems engineering, or requirements management.
• Experience supporting Federal Government, DoD, Intelligence Community, or other classified programs.
• Demonstrated experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Experience maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs).
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate across multiple stakeholders and technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Management Information Systems, or a related field.
• Experience with government-approved requirements management and documentation tools (e.g., DOORS, Jira, Confluence, Jama, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms).
• Experience supporting Agile, DevSecOps, or traditional SDLC environments.
• Knowledge of systems engineering principles and requirements management methodologies.
• INCOSE, CBAP, PMI-PBA, Agile, Scrum, or related certifications preferred.
• Experience analyzing UX/UI needs and implementations

Primary Work Location: Work is expected to be fully onsite in Colorado Springs, CO. The selected candidate must be able to support in-person program, customer, and technical coordination activities as required.

Special Work Conditions: Travel will be required, up to 10%.

Security:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required. TS/SCI Preferred

Competitive Salary: VT-ARC offers a competitive salary and benefits package designed to attract and retain senior technical talent supporting mission-critical programs.

Salary Range: $120,000 - $150,000 annually