Federal SME Requirements Engineer - Lead Elicitation

Jobvite, Inc.; Suitland (MD); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life and AD&D Insurance

401(k) Savings Plan

Education and Professional Training

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Paid Holidays

Job summary

ActioNet is seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Requirements Engineer to define and manage solution-level requirements across complex systems on a large federal modernization program. The role is hybrid (2 days on-site) in Suitland, MD, and requires U.S. citizenship.

You will run real elicitation sessions, produce traceable requirements artifacts, and own the requirements lifecycle from discovery to operations while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of requirements engineering or related experience on federal or complex enterprise programs.
• Ability to elicit and document multiple requirement types into measurable acceptance criteria.
• Hands-on experience with requirements traceability, baselining, version control, and change impact analysis.
• Experience supporting the full system development lifecycle from planning through operations.
• Strong facilitation, analytical writing, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan and facilitate discovery sessions, interviews, technical working groups, stakeholder reviews, and design reviews.
• Translate business needs into complete, testable functional, technical, operational, security, data, interface, and performance requirements.
• Establish and maintain baselines and traceability from business need through architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Analyze proposed changes and document impacts to architecture, scope, schedule, cost, testing, dependencies, security, and operations.
• Mentor other engineers, define templates and quality standards for requirements documentation.

Skills

Requirements engineering

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Traceability

Business analysis

Job description

ActioNet is seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Requirements Engineer to define and manage solution-level requirements across complex systems on a large federal modernization program. The role is hybrid (2 days on-site) in Suitland, MD, and requires U.S. citizenship.

You will run real elicitation sessions, produce traceable requirements artifacts, and own the requirements lifecycle from discovery to operations while collaborating with cross-functional teams.