Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer

Peraton is seeking an experienced Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer within our Systems Engineering organization to lead the elicitation, integration, management, and traceability of requirements across a large-scale federal program. In Peraton's role as a systems integrator, this position is the linchpin that ensures requirements flowing from the government customer, internal engineering teams, subcontractors, and vendor product specifications are captured, harmonized, and maintained as a single coherent baseline — not as disconnected fragments scattered across organizational boundaries.

You will own the authoritative requirements baseline for the integrated program. This means resolving conflicts between competing stakeholder needs, closing gaps where no one has claimed ownership, eliminating ambiguities that would otherwise surface as integration defects, and maintaining the traceability thread that connects mission intent to allocated responsibility. In an integration environment where dozens of contributors deliver against different subsets of requirements, your work is what ensures the whole adds up to more than the sum of its parts.

This postion will be located in Herndon, VA.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the elicitation, analysis, and documentation of system, subsystem, and interface requirements from government stakeholders, mission concept documents, standards, and operational needs
• Conduct stakeholder needs analysis to translate high-level mission objectives and operational concepts into well-formed, actionable engineering requirements
• 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
• 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 integrated requirements baselines that harmonize customer requirements, derived engineering requirements, interface requirements, and vendor/subcontractor specification commitments into a single, authoritative source of truth
• Identify and resolve requirements conflicts, gaps, overlaps, and ambiguities that arise when integrating requirements from multiple sources, vendors, and organizational boundaries — a challenge uniquely amplified in an integrator environment
• Define and manage interface requirements and contribute to interface control documents (ICDs), ensuring that data exchanges, protocols, performance expectations, and behavioral contracts between integrated components are fully specified and agreed upon
• Coordinate requirements negotiations between government customers, internal engineering teams, and subcontractors when competing needs, technical constraints, or resource limitations require trade-offs
• 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
• Build and maintain end-to-end requirements traceability — from mission/stakeholder needs through system requirements, subsystem allocations, design artifacts, test procedures, and verification evidence — using requirements management tools (IBM DOORS, DOORS Next, Jama Connect, or equivalent)
• Ensure bidirectional traceability is complete and current, enabling rapid impact analysis, coverage assessment, and audit readiness at any point in the systems engineering lifecycle
• Manage requirements configuration control, ensuring that baselined requirements are change-controlled, versioned, and synchronized with the program's configuration management processes
• Maintain allocation matrices that clearly map every requirement to its responsible owner — whether internal team, subcontractor, or vendor — and track allocation acceptance and compliance status
• 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
• Participate in architecture and design reviews (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR) to evaluate requirements adequacy, allocation correctness, and traceability completeness at each lifecycle milestone
• Review and assess vendor and subcontractor requirements artifacts — specifications, ICDs, compliance matrices — to ensure alignment with the integrated requirements baseline and program standards
• 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
• Support functional and physical configuration audits (FCA/PCA) by providing requirements traceability evidence and allocation documentation
• Translate complex requirements integration challenges, traceability gaps, and allocation risks into clear, actionable guidance for program leadership, government customers, and non-technical audiences
• Mentor and guide systems engineers, subcontractor requirements staff, and junior analysts in requirements engineering best practices, traceability discipline, and integration methodology

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Required Qualifications

• 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 experience serving as a requirements lead within a systems integrator environment, managing requirements integration and traceability across multi-vendor, multi-technology solutions
• Deep expertise in requirements engineering practices — elicitation, analysis, specification, decomposition, allocation, and management — applied to complex system-of-systems 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
• Hands-on experience resolving requirements conflicts and gaps across organizational and vendor boundaries in multi-contractor integration environments
• Solid understanding of systems engineering lifecycle processes and formal review milestones (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FCA/PCA)
• 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 systems where requirements completeness and traceability directly impact operational safety and mission success
• ITIL certification and experience aligning requirements management with ITSM and configuration management workflows
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional coordination across systems engineering, software development, test, cybersecurity, and operations teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with requirements engineering for aviation, air traffic management, or national airspace systems and familiarity with aviation-specific safety assurance and certification requirements (e.g., DO-178C, DO-254, ARP 4754A)
• Background in model-based systems engineering (MBSE) — 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
• Experience with cloud environment requirements — specifying and allocating requirements for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government)
• 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, IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering, TOGAF, or PMP

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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 do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.