Senior Operational Readiness & Requirements Lead

Apogee Global RMS; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apogee Global RMS seeks a Senior Operational Readiness & Requirements Lead to drive discovery, validation, and scenario development for a federal readiness simulation. You will translate operational needs into actionable models, coordinate with federal stakeholders, and guide V&V for simulation results.

You will manage assumptions, policy considerations, and decision points while leading workshops and documenting RTMs, workflows, and OS readiness criteria.

Qualifications

• Must have bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum 7 years in requirements analysis, business process analysis, or scenario development.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder interviews and workshops.
• Experience documenting complex workflows, rules, and decision processes.
• Experience validating analytical models or operational processes.
• Strong analytical, writing, facilitation, and stakeholder skills.
• Ability to obtain Public Trust suitability if required.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery sessions and stakeholder interviews.
• Document and validate functional and operational requirements.
• Develop process maps, workflows, use cases, and decision logic.
• Identify entities, events, constraints, and decision points in operations.
• Document assumptions, data limits, risks, and unresolved decisions.
• Create and maintain operational scenarios and validation criteria.
• Support V&V activities for simulation models and outputs.
• Assist with demonstrations, user acceptance, and after-action reviews.
• Maintain requirements docs, assumptions logs, and decision records.
• Contribute to user guides and training materials.

Skills

Requirements analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical writing

Facilitation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Operations Research, Systems Engineering, Business Analysis, Public Administration, Emergency Management, Industrial Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Discrete-event simulation

RTM (requirements traceability)

Job description

Apogee is seeking an experienced Senior Operational Readiness & Requirements Lead to support the development of a federal operational-readiness simulation and decision-support solution. This role will lead requirements discovery, operational workflow validation, scenario development, assumption management, and stakeholder coordination to ensure the simulation accurately reflects real-world mission processes and operational environments.

The successful candidate will serve as the critical connection between federal operational stakeholders, subject-matter experts, and technical simulation-development teams. The individual will translate complex operational requirements into actionable models by capturing processes, constraints, staffing considerations, decision points, exceptions, and mission scenarios.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and operational analysis workshops.
• Elicit, document, analyze, prioritize, and validate functional and operational requirements.
• Develop process maps, operational workflows, use cases, decision logic, and requirements traceability documentation.
• Identify operational entities, events, resources, dependencies, constraints, routing logic, exceptions, rework processes, and decision points.
• Document assumptions, data limitations, policy considerations, risks, and unresolved decisions.
• Develop and maintain operational scenarios, including:
  • Baseline operating conditions
  • Surge scenarios
  • Degraded operations
  • Disruption events
  • Policy and stress-test scenarios
• Coordinate subject-matter-expert reviews to validate workflows, assumptions, parameters, and simulation outcomes.
• Establish operational validation criteria and acceptance measures.
• Support verification and validation (V&V) activities for simulation models and analytical outputs.
• Analyze simulation results to ensure operational accuracy, relevance, and mission alignment.
• Support demonstrations, user acceptance activities, scenario rehearsals, and after-action reviews.
• Maintain requirements documentation, assumptions logs, decision records, validation findings, and corrective-action tracking.
• Contribute to user guides, training materials, scenario catalogs, and knowledge-transfer documentation

Must-have Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations Research, Systems Engineering, Business Analysis, Public Administration, Emergency Management, Industrial Engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in requirements analysis, business process analysis, operational planning, systems analysis, verification and validation, or scenario development.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating stakeholder interviews, workshops, and requirements-gathering sessions.
• Experience documenting complex operational workflows, business rules, decision processes, constraints, and exceptions.
• Experience validating analytical models, simulations, technology solutions, or operational processes.
• Strong analytical, technical writing, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain client-required suitability requirements, including Public Trust eligibility if required.

Preferred Qualifications

• CBAP, PMI-PBA, INCOSE, Lean Six Sigma, Agile, or comparable professional certification.
• Experience supporting federal readiness, mobilization, workforce operations, emergency management, continuity, or mission-support programs.
• Experience with discrete-event simulation, operations research, scenario modeling, or analytical model validation.
• Experience designing tabletop exercises, operational stress tests, demonstrations, or after-action reviews.
• Familiarity with requirements traceability matrices (RTM), formal verification and validation methodologies, and systems engineering practices.
• Experience supporting government stakeholders in complex, mission-critical environments.
• Security Requirement: Ability to obtain and maintain client-required suitability clearance or Public Trust determination.
• Location Requirement: Candidates must be able to support periodic onsite workshops and meetings in Virginia.