Senior SME Requirements Engineer - Federal Programs (Hybrid)

ActioNet; Suitland (MD); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life and AD&D Insurance

401(k) Savings Plan

Education and Professional Training

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Employee Referral and Merit Recogniti​

Employee Assistance and Identity Theft

Paid Holidays: 11 per year

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Disability Insurance

Job summary

ActioNet is seeking a Senior SME Requirements Engineer to lead requirements across a large federal modernization program. This hands-on role drives elicitation sessions, creates traceable artifacts, and ensures alignment from discovery to operations.

The position is hybrid (2 days on-site) in Suitland, MD, and requires U.S. citizenship. You will collaborate with PMs, architects, cybersecurity, testers, and operations to resolve conflicts and deliver high-quality requirements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of requirements engineering, business analysis, or systems analysis experience 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.

Responsibilities

• Requirements Elicitation & Analysis: Plan and facilitate discovery sessions, interviews, design reviews; translate needs into testable requirements.
• Traceability & Baselines: Establish baselines and traceability from business need through architecture, design, deployment.
• Change Impact Analysis: Analyze proposed changes and document impacts; support workflows; collaborate with PMs, architects, cybersecurity, testers, and operations.
• Quality & Mentorship: Define templates and quality standards; review complex work; mentor other engineers and represent requirements management in governance forums.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Traceability

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Analysis

Job description

ActioNet is seeking a Senior SME Requirements Engineer to lead requirements across a large federal modernization program. This hands-on role drives elicitation sessions, creates traceable artifacts, and ensures alignment from discovery to operations.

The position is hybrid (2 days on-site) in Suitland, MD, and requires U.S. citizenship. You will collaborate with PMs, architects, cybersecurity, testers, and operations to resolve conflicts and deliver high-quality requirements.