Mission Liaison / Requirements Analyst - DHA/DMDC/Other Agencies (Journeyman)

DecisionPoint | Cortek; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

DecisionPoint is seeking a Mission Liaison / Requirements Analyst to support accession-processing requirements for DHA, DMDC, and other DoD stakeholders for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. The role translates mission needs into actionable software requirements and maintains traceability throughout the lifecycle.

You will elicit and document requirements, develop user stories and acceptance criteria, and assist with sprint demos, UAT, training, and user guidance.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher
• Bachelor's degree in information systems, business, or a related field
• Six years of relevant professional experience
• Experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating, and maintaining business or system requirements
• Experience developing and refining user stories and acceptance criteria
• Experience maintaining requirements traceability across the software-development lifecycle
• Experience working with mission stakeholders, users, developers, testers, trainers, and other cross-functional delivery personnel
• Ability to analyze complex workflows and translate operational needs and business rules into clear, testable requirements
• Ability to support backlog refinement, sprint demonstrations, user acceptance testing, and feedback triage
• Ability to develop clear process documentation, requirements artifacts, user guidance, and stakeholder communications
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, analytical, and organizational skills
• Ability to manage multiple requirements

Responsibilities

• Engage DHA, DMDC, USMEPCOM and other Government stakeholders to understand needs, workflows, constraints, and business rules
• Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and maintain functional and mission requirements
• Translate operational needs and agency requirements into user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with stakeholders, developers, testers, and trainers to clarify requirements
• Maintain the Requirements Traceability Matrix and ensure traceability across artifacts
• Support backlog refinement and assess user stories for clarity and readiness
• Identify conflicting agency requirements, workflow gaps, risks, and decisions
• Coordinate requirements and business rules that affect data exchanges and interagency workflows
• Support sprint planning, reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and other Agile activities
• Prepare mission stakeholders and users for sprint demonstrations and capability reviews
• Capture demonstration feedback and translate approved changes into requirements or backlog items
• Support user acceptance testing by developing acceptance criteria and coordinating participation
• Triage user feedback, defects, enhancements, and operational concerns with teams
• Verify delivered capabilities satisfy approved requirements and acceptance criteria
• Update user guides, job aids, training materials, release notes, and user-facing documentation
• Coordinate with training to reflect released functionality
• Assist with release-readiness activities and communications to agencies and stakeholders
• Prepare meeting materials, briefings, decision papers, workflow documentation, and status reports
• Maintain organized requirements artifacts in government-approved repositories
• Support continuous improvement of requirements-management and interagency coordination

Skills

Active Secret clearance

Requirements elicitation

User stories & acceptance criteria

Traceability management

Agile / sprint participation

Stakeholder communication

Complex workflow analysis

Multitasking

Documentation

Problem solving

Meeting facilitation

Education

Bachelor's degree in information systems, business, or related field

Job description

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Mission Liaison / Requirements Analyst to support accession-processing requirements involving the Defense Health Agency (DHA), Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), and other federal and Department of Defense stakeholders for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This role works with Government mission owners, agency representatives, users, business analysts, software teams, testers, trainers, and other technical personnel to translate mission needs and business rules into actionable software requirements.

The Mission Liaison / Requirements Analyst elicits and documents requirements, develops user stories and acceptance criteria, and maintains traceability throughout the software-development lifecycle. The analyst also supports sprint demonstrations, user acceptance testing, feedback triage, training updates, and the development of user guidance.

This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Engage DHA, DMDC, USMEPCOM, and other Government stakeholders to understand accession-processing needs, agency interactions, workflows, constraints, and business rules.
• Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and maintain functional and mission requirements.
• Translate operational needs, agency requirements, and business rules into clear, actionable user stories, use cases, process flows, and acceptance criteria.
• Work with mission owners, agency representatives, product stakeholders, developers, testers, and trainers to clarify requirements and resolve questions.
• Maintain the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and ensure traceability among mission needs, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, test cases, defects, training materials, and released capabilities.
• Support backlog refinement and assess user stories for clarity, completeness, testability, dependencies, and readiness.
• Identify conflicting agency requirements, workflow gaps, interface dependencies, risks, and unresolved stakeholder decisions.
• Coordinate requirements and business rules that affect data exchanges, interagency workflows, system interfaces, and external dependencies.
• Support sprint planning, reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and other Agile delivery activities.
• Prepare mission stakeholders and users for sprint demonstrations and capability reviews.
• Capture demonstration feedback and translate approved changes into requirements, user stories, backlog updates, or action items.
• Support user acceptance testing by developing acceptance criteria, reviewing test scenarios, coordinating user participation, and documenting results.
• Triage user feedback, defects, enhancement requests, and operational concerns in coordination with Government and technical teams.
• Verify that delivered capabilities satisfy approved requirements and documented acceptance criteria.
• Support updates to user guides, job aids, training materials, release notes, and other user-facing documentation.
• Coordinate with training personnel to ensure that materials accurately reflect approved workflows and released functionality.
• Assist with release-readiness activities, operational validation, and communications to affected agencies and mission stakeholders.
• Prepare meeting materials, briefings, decision papers, workflow documentation, meeting minutes, and status reports.
• Maintain organized and accurate requirements artifacts in Government-approved repositories and collaboration platforms.
• Support continuous improvement of requirements-management, traceability, interagency coordination, user-feedback, and acceptance processes.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• An active Secret clearance or higher.
• A bachelor's degree in information systems, business, or a related field, or an equivalent permitted by the applicable labor category.
• At least six years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating, and maintaining business or system requirements.
• Experience developing and refining user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience maintaining requirements traceability across the software-development lifecycle.
• Experience working with mission stakeholders, users, developers, testers, trainers, and other cross-functional delivery personnel.
• Ability to analyze complex workflows and translate operational needs and business rules into clear, testable requirements.
• Ability to support backlog refinement, sprint demonstrations, user acceptance testing, and feedback triage.
• Ability to develop clear process documentation, requirements artifacts, user guidance, and stakeholder communications.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, analytical, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple requirem