Requirements Engineering SME

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

We are seeking Subject Matter Expert (SME) Requirements Engineer to join our team supporting a large-scale federal modernization program. This role defines, elicits, validates, and manages solution-level functional, technical, operational, security, and performance requirements across complex, interdependent systems, carrying those requirements from initial discovery through architecture, design, testing, deployment, and operations.

This is a hands-on requirements role. You'll be expected to run real elicitation sessions and produce real traceable requirements artifacts, not just coordinate meetings.

This is a hybrid role based out of Washington, DC. Candidates must be U.S. citizens.

Key Responsibilities

• Requirements Elicitation & Analysis
• Plan and facilitate discovery sessions, interviews, technical working groups, stakeholder reviews, and design reviews
• Translate business and mission needs into complete, testable, unambiguous functional, technical, operational, security, data, interface, and performance requirements
• Traceability & Baselines
• Establish and maintain requirements baselines and traceability from business need through architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and operations
• Maintain requirements status, completion, changes, dependencies, assumptions, decisions, risks, and supporting evidence
• Change Impact Analysis
• Analyze proposed changes and document impacts to architecture, scope, schedule, cost, testing, dependencies, security, and operational readiness
• Support review and approval workflows for requirements changes
• Cross-Team Collaboration
• Partner with project managers, architects, engineers, cybersecurity, testers, and operations to resolve requirements conflicts and gaps
• Prepare requirements packages, review records, traceability matrices, and recurring status metrics
• Quality & Mentorship
• Define templates and quality standards for requirements documentation
• Review complex requirements work, mentor other engineers, and represent requirements management in governance forums

Requirements

10+ years of requirements engineering, business analysis, or systems analysis experience, including work on federal or comparably complex enterprise programs.

Demonstrated ability to elicit and document multiple requirement types and convert stakeholder language into measurable acceptance criteria.

Hands-on experience with requirements traceability, baselining, version control, change impact analysis, and review/approval workflows.

Experience supporting the full system development lifecycle, from planning through implementation and operations, not only front-end documentation.

Strong facilitation, analytical writing, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.

U.S. citizenship required.

Benefits

• 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