Requirements Analysis Lead

Parsons; Linthicum (MD); On-site; USD 104,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

Life insurance

Paid time off

Flexible work schedules

Holidays

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a Requirements Analysis Lead for a cybersecurity support program in Columbia, MD. You will manage the requirements process, analyze stakeholder inputs, and ensure traceability from mission needs to implementation.

You will collaborate with cybersecurity experts and leadership to improve requirements quality and support timely decisions, while mentoring peers and driving best practices across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant requirements experience
• Active TS/SCI clearance required
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field; equivalent experience may be considered
• Experience managing requirements across full lifecycle
• Experience with cybersecurity, IT, intelligence, or defense programs
• Experience leading meetings with government stakeholders and leadership
• Strong writing, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Experience using requirements-management, workflow, ticketing, and collaboration tools

Responsibilities

• Lead and improve the customer’s requirements-management process
• Establish procedures, templates, workflows, and best practices
• Receive, organize, and analyze requirements from cybersecurity stakeholders
• Facilitate elicitation sessions and stakeholder reviews
• Analyze requirements for clarity, feasibility, and risk
• Identify and resolve duplicates, conflicts, or unverifiable requirements
• Support adjudication and prioritization with leadership
• Develop and maintain traceability from needs to implementation
• Ensure written requirements are clear and testable
• Maintain repositories, dashboards, and documentation
• Track status, ownership, dependencies, and decisions
• Support change control and configuration management
• Develop reports, metrics, and leadership briefings
• Identify trends and opportunities to improve quality and efficiency
• Coordinate across teams to enable timely decisions
• Mentor analysts and promote consistent practices

Skills

Requirements analysis

Stakeholder facilitation

Analytical writing

Communication

Organizational skills

Presentation

Tool proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, business, systems analysis

Tools

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

IBM DOORS

Jama

Polarion

Azure DevOps

SharePoint

Job description

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At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.

Job Description:

Parsons is seeking a Requirements Analysis Lead for a cybersecurity support program. If you are passionate about managing requirements to help ensure the success of a large cybersecurity organization, this role offers a strong next step in your career.

As a Requirements Analysis Lead, you will be helping to maintain and continually improve the customer’s requirements management process. You'll also get to provide detailed requirement analysis support to help gather, analyze, validate, de-duplicate, and help adjudicate requirements coming into the cybersecurity organization. You’ll get the chance to collaborate closely with experienced cybersecurity experts and customer leadership to help improve the overall success of the entire requirement management process.

You’ll be joining Parsons’ local Analytics & Engineering team, a community known for its strong culture of defensive cyber operations, technical excellence, and collaboration. We invest in both mission success and team connection through regular social events, technical talks, training opportunities, and hands‑on innovation activities at our Cybersecurity Center of Excellence Lab in Columbia, MD. From team lunches and ice cream socials to family‑friendly seasonal events and technical learning sessions, we work hard to create an environment where people can do meaningful work and enjoy being part of the team.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead and continuously improve the customer’s requirements-management process.

• Establish and maintain requirements-management procedures, templates, workflows, standards, and best practices.

• Receive, organize, categorize, and analyze requirements submitted by cybersecurity stakeholders.

• Facilitate requirements elicitation sessions, interviews, working groups, and stakeholder reviews.

• Analyze requirements for clarity, completeness, consistency, feasibility, priority, risk, and alignment with mission objectives.

• Identify and resolve duplicate, conflicting, ambiguous, obsolete, or unverifiable requirements.

• Support the adjudication and prioritization of competing requirements in coordination with customer leadership and technical stakeholders.

• Develop and maintain requirements traceability from mission needs through implementation, validation, and acceptance.

• Ensure requirements are written in a clear, concise, measurable, and testable manner.

• Maintain requirements repositories, databases, dashboards, and supporting documentation.

• Track requirements status, ownership, dependencies, decisions, changes, and approval history.

• Support requirements change control, impact analysis, configuration management, and baseline management.

• Develop reports, briefings, metrics, and recommendations for Government and program leadership.

• Identify trends, process gaps, and opportunities to improve requirements quality and organizational efficiency.

• Coordinate across technical, operational, acquisition, and leadership stakeholders to promote shared understanding and timely decision‑making.

• Mentor analysts and help establish consistent requirements‑engineering practices across the organization.

What Required Skills You’ll Bring:

• TS/SCI clearance current/active

• 8+ years of relevant requirements experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, business, systems analysis, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.

• Demonstrated experience managing requirements across the full lifecycle, including elicitation, analysis, validation, prioritization, approval, traceability, change control, and verification.

• Experience working with cybersecurity, information technology, intelligence, defense, or other complex technical programs.

• Experience facilitating meetings and working groups with technical experts, Government stakeholders, leadership, and customers.

• Strong analytical, writing, communication, organizational, and presentation skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, stakeholders, and competing requirements.

• Experience using requirements‑management, workflow, ticketing, database, or collaboration tools.

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring:

• Experience supporting Air Force, intelligence community, or federal cybersecurity missions.

• Experience with systems engineering or requirements frameworks, such as:

• INCOSE practices

• Agile or Scrum

• DevSecOps

• Capability‑based planning

• Mission engineering

• Model‑based systems engineering

• Experience developing requirements traceability matrices, capability maps, process models, data models, or operational views.

• Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, IBM DOORS, Jama, Polarion, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, or equivalent platforms.

• Certification such as Certified Systems Engineering Professional, PMI Professional in Business Analysis, Certified Scrum Product Owner, or equivalent.

• Experience developing requirements metrics, quality‑assurance criteria, dashboards, and executive‑level briefings.

• Experience leading process‑improvement initiatives or organisational change.

Security Clearance Requirement:

An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close‑knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation’s most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range: $103,500.00 - $181,100.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best‑in‑class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest.

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About Us

Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider focused on the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. With nearly 75 years of experience, Parsons is uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology‑based intellectual property, and other innovative services to federal, regional, and local government agencies, as well as to private industrial customers worldwide.

Parsons is an equal opportunity, drug‑free employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran/LGBTQ+.

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