Federal Systems Requirements Engineer – Elicitation Expert

Ignite IT; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Flexible spending account

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Professional development assistance

Referral program

Tuition reimbursement

Vision insurance

Job summary

Ignite IT is seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Requirements Engineer to join a large-scale federal modernization program in Washington, DC. This hands-on role elicits, documents, and validates solution-level requirements across complex systems, from discovery through operations.

You will run real elicitation sessions, maintain traceability and baselines, and mentor teammates while working in a hybrid setup. U.S.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in requirements engineering, business analysis, or systems analysis on federal or complex enterprise programs.
• Experience eliciting and documenting multiple requirement types and turning stakeholder language into measurable acceptance criteria.
• Hands-on experience with requirements traceability, baselining, version control, change impact analysis, and review workflows.
• Experience across full SDLC from planning to operations, not just front-end documentation.
• Strong facilitation, analytical writing, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and analyze requirements from stakeholders.
• Plan and facilitate discovery sessions, technical working groups, stakeholder reviews, and design reviews.
• Translate needs into testable, unambiguous functional, technical, operational, security, data, interface, and performance requirements.
• Maintain requirements baselines and traceability from business need through architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Prepare requirements packages, review records, traceability matrices, and recurring status metrics.
• Review complex requirements work, mentor other engineers, and represent requirements management in governance forums.
• Collaborate with project managers, architects, cybersecurity, testers, and operations to resolve requirements conflicts and gaps.

Skills

Requirements elicitation & analysis

Facilitation

Stakeholder management

Analytical writing

Mentoring/leadership

Tools

Version control

Traceability matrices

Job description

Ignite IT is seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Requirements Engineer to join a large-scale federal modernization program in Washington, DC. This hands-on role elicits, documents, and validates solution-level requirements across complex systems, from discovery through operations.

You will run real elicitation sessions, maintain traceability and baselines, and mentor teammates while working in a hybrid setup. U.S.