Mission Liaison / Requirements Analyst - Navy/USMC (Journeyman)

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

Job summary

DecisionPoint seeks a Mission Liaison / Requirements Analyst to support Navy and Marine Corps accession-processing requirements for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This role collaborates with government stakeholders, business analysts, software teams, testers, and trainers to translate mission needs into actionable software requirements.

The analyst elicits and documents requirements, develops user stories and acceptance criteria, and maintains traceability throughout the software development

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Bachelor's degree in information systems, business, or related field.
• At least six years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating, and maintaining requirements.
• Experience developing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience maintaining requirements traceability across the software-development lifecycle.
• Ability to analyze complex workflows and translate operational needs into testable requirements.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, analytical, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Engage stakeholders to understand accession-processing needs and business rules.
• Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and maintain requirements.
• Translate needs into user stories, use cases, process flows, and acceptance criteria.
• Work with mission owners, 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 requirements, workflow gaps, dependencies, risks, and unresolved stakeholder decisions.
• 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 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, user-feedback, and acceptance processes.

Skills

Active Secret clearance

Six years experience

Requirement elicitation

User stories

Traceability

Agile collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in information systems or business

Job description

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Mission Liaison / Requirements Analyst to support Navy and Marine Corps accession-processing requirements for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This role works directly with Government mission owners, accession-processing stakeholders, 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 Navy, Marine Corps, USMEPCOM, and other Government stakeholders to understand accession-processing needs, workflows, constraints, and business rules.
• Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and maintain functional and mission requirements.
• Translate operational needs and business rules into clear, actionable user stories, use cases, process flows, and acceptance criteria.
• Work with mission owners, 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 requirements, workflow gaps, dependencies, risks, and unresolved stakeholder decisions.
• 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 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, user-feedback, and acceptance processes.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Candidates must possess all the following:

• 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 requirements, stakeholder inputs, dependencies, and action items in a structured delivery environment.

Preferred Qualifications

The following qualifications are preferred:

• A business analysis or Agile certification, such as Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA), Entry Certificate in Business Ana