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About Peraton Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure. About The Role Peraton is seeking an experienced Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer within our BNATCS Architecture and Systems Engineering group to perform the integration, traceability, and baseline management of requirements across a large-scale federal program. As a key contributor on a multi-vendor systems integrator program, you will ensure requirements from the government customer, internal teams, subcontractors, and vendors are captured, harmonized, and maintained as a single coherent baseline - resolving conflicts, closing gaps, and maintaining the traceability thread from mission intent to allocated responsibility. You will be part of a team responsible for system-of-systems integration, requirements traceability and integrity across the program, V&V support, and the development of program-wide standards and templates. This is a hands-on senior engineering role - you will be expected to own assigned tasks, produce high-quality artifacts, and operate independently, while providing advisory guidance to leadership and stakeholders when needed. This position is on-site in Herndon, VA. Key Responsibilities * Perform requirements decomposition and allocation across the integrated system architecture, mapping high-level mission requirements to specific components - custom-developed, COTS, GOTS, and third-party vendor systems - with clear ownership and accountability * Design and implement requirements schemas that establish the structural foundation for traceability across the program, ensuring consistent taxonomy, attribute definitions, and linkage conventions that support end-to-end traceability and audit readiness * Understand and apply the relationship between requirements and enterprise architecture artifacts - including DoDAF views and diagrams - to ensure requirements are grounded in and traceable to the broader architectural context; contribute to the program's evolution toward a digital engineering ecosystem where requirements, architecture, and verification evidence are interconnected and model-driven * Establish and enforce requirements quality standards - completeness, correctness, consistency, testability, feasibility, and unambiguity - across all requirements authored by internal teams, subcontractors, and vendors * Develop and maintain an integrated requirements baseline that harmonizes customer, derived, interface, and vendor/subcontractor requirements into a single authoritative source of truth; identify and resolve conflicts, gaps, overlaps, and ambiguities across organizational and vendor boundaries * Build and maintain end-to-end bidirectional traceability - from mission needs through system requirements, subsystem allocations, design artifacts, test procedures, and verification evidence - ensuring coverage is complete, current, and audit-ready at all lifecycle stages; maintain allocation matrices tracking ownership and compliance status across all contributors * Define and manage interface requirements and interface control documents (ICDs), ensuring data exchanges, protocols, performance expectations, and behavioral contracts are fully specified, baselined, and enforced; proactively identify and drive resolution of integration issues, discrepancies, and gaps that could affect system coherence or compliance * Conduct requirements impact analysis for proposed changes, evaluating cross-system effects across multi-vendor components and supporting Configuration Control Board (CCB) decisions with requirements-level evidence; manage configuration control to ensure baselined requirements are change-controlled, versioned, and synchronized with program CM processes * Generate traceability metrics and reports - requirements coverage, allocation completeness, open TBDs/TBRs, change activity, and baseline health - for program leadership, government stakeholders, and engineering teams * Review and assess vendor and subcontractor requirements artifacts - specifications, ICDs, compliance matrices - to ensure alignment with the integrated baseline and program standards; participate in architecture and design reviews (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR) and ensure requirements traceability artifacts and allocation documentation are audit-ready in support of FCA/PCA activities * Collaborate with enterprise architects, software architects, cybersecurity teams, data architects, and test engineers to ensure requirements are complete, allocable, and verifiable across all technical domains * Interface with both government customers and internal stakeholders - including engineering teams, subcontractors, and program leadership - to communicate requirements status, surface and resolve requirements, traceability, and integration issues, and drive alignment across organizational boundaries; able to engage in requirements elicitation discussions and translate operational concepts into well-formed engineering requirements when the situation calls for it * Translate complex requirements integration challenges, traceability gaps, and allocation risks into clear, actionable guidance for program leadership and government customers; mentor systems engineers, subcontractor staff, and junior analysts in requirements engineering best practices and traceability discipline Qualifications Required Qualifications * US Citizenship * Public Trust Clearance - Ability to Obtain and Maintain * 15+ years of experience in requirements engineering, systems engineering, or technical program support within large-scale programs * Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of degree) * Demonstrated hands-on expertise in requirements integration and traceability within a systems integrator environment, with a proven track record of directly performing - not just directing - requirements integration and traceability activities across multi-vendor, multi-technology solutions * Deep expertise in requirements engineering practices - analysis, specification, decomposition, allocation, and management - applied to complex system-of-systems, mission-critical, or enterprise-scale environments * Proven experience building and maintaining end-to-end bidirectional traceability across multi-tier requirement hierarchies in integrated programs * Strong command of requirements management tools - IBM DOORS, DOORS Next, Jama Connect, Polarion, or equivalent - including traceability matrix construction, baselining, and change control; familiarity with Jama Connect is particularly relevant to this program * Hands-on experience resolving requirements conflicts and gaps across organizational and vendor boundaries in multi-contractor integration environments * Strong understanding of the full systems engineering lifecycle - from mission-level concept and stakeholder needs through system, subsystem, and component-level requirements - and how requirements evolve, decompose, and get allocated across that continuum; includes fluency with formal review milestones (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FCA/PCA) and the requirements artifacts expected at each gate * Experience with interface requirements definition and contribution to interface control documents (ICDs) for complex integrated systems * Working knowledge of federal frameworks (NIST, FedRAMP, RMF) as they generate security and compliance requirements that must be integrated into the broader requirements baseline * Experience supporting federal or DoD programs with complex multi-contractor requirements integration challenges * Background in mission-critical or safety-critical complex systems or system-of-systems environments where requirements completeness and traceability directly impact operational safety and mission success * Familiarity with ITSM and configuration management workflows, and how requirements management aligns within them
* Proven ability to lead cross-functional coordination across systems engineering, software development, test, cybersecurity, and operations teams Preferred Qualifications * Prior experience with requirements engineering for aviation, air traffic management, or national airspace systems, including working knowledge of aviation-specific safety assurance and certification requirements (e.g., DO-178C, DO-254, ARP 4754A) * Background in model-based systems engineering (MBSE) - familiarity with deriving and managing requirements within SysML/UAF models using tools such as Cameo or Sparx EA * Experience with AI-assisted requirements analysis - NLP-based quality checking, automated gap detection, conflict identification, and intelligent traceability linking * Familiarity with requirements integration in Agile and hybrid development environments, including backlog-to-requirements traceability and iterative requirements refinement * Background in real-time systems, low-latency architectures, and the unique requirements challenges they present (timing, determinism, fault tolerance) * Knowledge of network architecture (SD-WAN, secure transport) requirements specification and allocation in integrated environments * Relevant certifications such as INCOSE CSEP/ESEP