Senior Systems Architect & Requirements Engineer

Peraton; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton in Chantilly, VA is seeking Systems Engineers / Architecture & Requirements Engineers to support system-level engineering across a complex platform. These engineers will contribute to requirements analysis, architecture development, interface definition, and technical planning across the lifecycle.

The ideal candidate works across software, cloud, infrastructure, networking, security, and data teams, ensuring traceability, MBSE, and rigorous technical reviews.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph.
• Approximately 6–10 years of experience in systems engineering, requirements engineering, architecture, integration, or a related technical discipline.
• BS and 6 years of experience. An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Demonstrated experience with requirements analysis, system interfaces, architecture, and technical documentation.
• Ability to work across multiple technical disciplines, including software, cloud, infrastructure, networking, security, and data.
• Experience supporting system-level integration and technical reviews.
• Experience with requirements traceability, technical planning, or change-impact analysis.
• Strong analytical, technical writing, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and decompose technical objectives into clear, actionable engineering requirements.
• Develop and maintain traceability between requirements, architecture, interfaces, implementation, and verification evidence.
• Evaluate proposed requirement changes and assess technical, schedule, interface, and operational impacts.
• Coordinate requirements interpretation and clarification with platform owners, engineering teams, and customer stakeholders.
• Support requirements baselining and ongoing management as technical and mission needs evolve.
• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts, interface descriptions, dependency views, and supporting technical documentation.
• Support the definition of APIs, service interfaces, trust relationships, data exchanges, and cross-platform dependencies.
• Analyze relationships between systems and platforms to identify technical dependencies, integration points, and potential impacts.
• Conduct engineering trade studies and document technical recommendations, decisions, and associated rationale.
• Support architecture modeling and MBSE activities where appropriate.
• Partner with architecture and integration teams to ensure system-level technical decisions are reflected in requirements and engineering documentation.
• Prepare for and support architecture, requirements, design, and technical review activities.
• Track technical actions, interface issues, engineering decisions, and review findings through closure.
• Coordinate with Integration & Test Engineers to ensure requirements have clear, measurable, and verifiable criteria.
• Support configuration management and change-impact analysis for evolving platform services and capabilities.
• Evaluate proposed technical changes for impacts across requirements, interfaces, architecture, implementation, and verification.
• Collaborate across software, cloud, infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, data, and platform engineering disciplines.
• Support technical planning and system-level integration activities across interconnected platforms.
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and dependencies across engineering artifacts and work with technical teams to resolve them.
• Translate complex technical information into clear engineering documentation and recommendations for technical and customer stakeholders.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

SysML

UAF

MBSE

Cameo

Job description

Peraton in Chantilly, VA is seeking Systems Engineers / Architecture & Requirements Engineers to support system-level engineering across a complex platform. These engineers will contribute to requirements analysis, architecture development, interface definition, and technical planning across the lifecycle.

The ideal candidate works across software, cloud, infrastructure, networking, security, and data teams, ensuring traceability, MBSE, and rigorous technical reviews.