Senior Requirements Engineer – Federal Modernization

Ignite IT, LLC; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; 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, LLC is seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Requirements Engineer to support a large-scale federal modernization program. The role entails hands-on elicitation, producing traceable requirements across technical and operational domains, and guiding lifecycle activities from discovery to operations.

The candidate will run real elicitation sessions, translate stakeholder needs into measurable acceptance criteria, and collaborate across cross-functional teams in a hybrid Washington, DC

Qualifications

• 10+ years of requirements engineering, business analysis, or systems analysis experience.
• Experience on federal or comparably complex enterprise programs.
• Hands-on elicitation sessions and real traceable requirements artifacts.
• Ability to translate stakeholder language into measurable acceptance criteria.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Plan and facilitate discovery sessions, interviews, working groups, stakeholder reviews, and design reviews.
• Establish and maintain baselines and traceability from business need through architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Analyze proposed changes and document impacts to architecture, scope, schedule, cost, testing, dependencies, security, and readiness.
• Collaborate with project managers, architects, engineers, cybersecurity, testers, and operations to resolve conflicts and gaps.
• Define templates and quality standards for requirements documentation; mentor others.

Skills

Requirements Engineering

Business Analysis

Systems Analysis

Traceability

Stakeholder Management

Facilitation

Job description

Ignite IT, LLC is seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Requirements Engineer to support a large-scale federal modernization program. The role entails hands-on elicitation, producing traceable requirements across technical and operational domains, and guiding lifecycle activities from discovery to operations.

The candidate will run real elicitation sessions, translate stakeholder needs into measurable acceptance criteria, and collaborate across cross-functional teams in a hybrid Washington, DC