Senior Functional Analyst: Systems & Requirements Lead

AMERICAN SYSTEMS; Quantico Base (VA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is seeking a senior systems engineering/analytic professional to compile data for reports and translate user requirements into system specifications. The role requires deep experience in engineering analysis and the ability to briefing program leadership.

Expect collaboration across teams and potential staff oversight. The position emphasizes data-driven assessment, life cycle management coordination, and producing clear documentation while interfacing with executive

Qualifications

• 15 years of relevant systems engineering and/or requirements analysis experience.
• Active TS clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving ability.
• Adept at briefing executives and IPT leadership.

Responsibilities

• Performs research, collection, and collation of data from studies and prepares inputs into larger reports.
• Analyzes factors and components of complex systems to recommend and institute changes to increase efficiency.
• Plans studies of work problems and procedures, such as organizational changes and information flow.
• Recommends improvements of operations, sequence of operations, equipment utilization.
• Examines operations to define user requirements that satisfy total program needs.
• Translates user requirements into system specifications, CM plans, life cycle management documentation, and ILSPs.
• Writes specifications manuals and user documentation for client personnel.
• Gathers information from users, defines work problems, and designs systems and procedures to resolve problems.
• May be assigned responsibility for the management of the function, including staff.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements analysis

Analytical mindset

Executive briefing

MS Office/SharePoint

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Job description

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is seeking a senior systems engineering/analytic professional to compile data for reports and translate user requirements into system specifications. The role requires deep experience in engineering analysis and the ability to briefing program leadership.

Expect collaboration across teams and potential staff oversight. The position emphasizes data-driven assessment, life cycle management coordination, and producing clear documentation while interfacing with executive