Requirements Manager — Capability Modernisation Programme for NATO with security clearance

Work Life Group; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup is seeking a Requirements Engineer to support a major defence capability in Norfolk, VA. The role focuses on managing requirements, policy compliance, and stakeholder engagement for complex, classified environments.

A NATO-5 visa is available for relocation to the United States. The successful candidate will have a bachelor degree or higher, 3+ years in requirements engineering, and hands-on experience with IBM Rational DOORS, delivering traceable, secure requirements across governance

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or higher.
• 3+ of the last 10 years in requirements engineering (management and elicitation).
• Capability development experience, ideally under a common-funded governance model.
• Capability development on communications or infrastructure programmes in classified environments.
• Hands-on experience with a formal requirements management tool, e.g., IBM Rational DOORS.
• Fluent professional English.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing and updating the requirements management and benefits realisation plans as the capability develops.
• Keeping the security policy, documentation and classification guidance current.
• Engaging stakeholders and users at political, operational and tactical level to identify requirements and policy developments.
• Working with the requirements and quality assurance branches to keep the programme aligned with best practices.
• Owning the benefits realisation strand as management products are produced and projects land.
• Developing measurable capability acceptance criteria with agencies, stakeholders and end users.
• Tracking technical requirements with agencies and host nations, keeping validity and traceability.
• Authoring the relevant sections of the capability programme plans.
• Managing every output in the requirements management system.

Skills

Requirements engineering

Stakeholder engagement

Security policy knowledge

Documentation

Traceability

Fluent English

Education

Bachelor degree or higher

Tools

IBM Rational DOORS

Job description

Relocation to the United States — Norfolk, Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa.

A multinational defence organisation is modernising one of its most complex command and control capabilities — the biggest programme in its common-funded portfolio, with more than fifty project proposals due inside eighteen months. This role collects and manages the capability and technical requirements behind it, with a particular eye on security.

What you would be doing

• Reviewing and updating the requirements management and benefits realisation plans as the capability develops.
• Keeping the security policy, documentation and classification guidance current.
• Engaging stakeholders and users at political, operational and tactical level to identify requirements and policy developments.
• Working with the requirements and quality assurance branches so the programme stays aligned with organisational best practice.
• Owning the benefits realisation strand as management products are produced and projects land.
• Developing measurable capability acceptance criteria with agencies, stakeholders and end users.
• Tracking technical requirements with agencies and host nations, keeping validity and traceability intact.
• Authoring the relevant sections of the capability programme plans.
• Managing every output in the requirements management system.

What you would bring

• A bachelor degree or higher.
• At least three of the last ten years in requirements engineering, covering both management and elicitation.
• Capability development experience, ideally under a common-funded governance model.
• Capability development on communications or infrastructure programmes in classified environments.
• Hands‑on experience with a formal requirements management tool such as IBM Rational DOORS.
• Fluent professional English.

This is a long engagement that renews year on year, not a short project.