Subject Matter Expert (SME) Requirements Engineer

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

Job Title: Subject Matter Expert (SME) Requirements Engineer

Location: Hybrid - 2 days a week on-site - Suitland, MD

Summary

Position Summary

We are seeking Subject Matter Expert (SME) Requirements Engineer to join our team supporting a large-scale federal modernization program. This role defines, elicits, validates, and manages solution-level functional, technical, operational, security, and performance requirements across complex, interdependent systems, carrying those requirements from initial discovery through architecture, design, testing, deployment, and operations.

This is a hands-on requirements role. You'll be expected to run real elicitation sessions and produce real traceable requirements artifacts, not just coordinate meetings.

This is a hybrid role based out of Washington, DC. Candidates must be U.S. citizens.

Key Responsibilities

1. Requirements Elicitation & Analysis

• Plan and facilitate discovery sessions, interviews, technical working groups, stakeholder reviews, and design reviews.
• Translate business and mission needs into complete, testable, unambiguous functional, technical, operational, security, data, interface, and performance requirements.

2. Traceability & Baselines

• Establish and maintain requirements baselines and traceability from business need through architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Maintain requirements status, completion, changes, dependencies, assumptions, decisions, risks, and supporting evidence.

3. Change Impact Analysis

• Analyze proposed changes and document impacts to architecture, scope, schedule, cost, testing, dependencies, security, and operational readiness.
• Support review and approval workflows for requirements changes.
• Partner with project managers, architects, engineers, cybersecurity, testers, and operations to resolve requirements conflicts and gaps.
• Prepare requirements packages, review records, traceability matrices, and recurring status metrics.

5. Quality & Mentorship

• Define templates and quality standards for requirements documentation.
• Review complex requirements work, mentor other engineers, and represent requirements management in governance forums.

Requirements

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

• Advanced and Managed IT Services
• Agile Software Development
• DevSecOps
• Cybersecurity
• Health IT
• C4ISR & SIGINT
• Data Center Engineering & Operations

Why ActioNet?

At ActioNet, our Passion for Quality is at the heart of everything we do:

• Commitment to Employees : We are committed to making ActioNet a great place to work and continue to invest in our ActioNeters.
• Commitment to Customers : We are committed to our customers by driving and sustaining Service Delivery Excellence.
• Commitment to Community : We are committed to giving back to our community, helping others, and making the world a better place for our next generation.

ActioNet is proud to be named a Top Workplace for the twelfth year in a row (2014 - 2025). We have a 98% customer retention rate. We are passionate about the inspirational missions of our customers, and we entrust our employees and teams to deliver exceptional performance to enable the safety, security, health, and well-being of our nation.

What's in It For You?

As an ActioNeter, you get to be part of an exceptional team and a corporate culture that nurtures mutual success for our customers, employees, and communities. We give you the tools to be successful; all you need to do is bring your best ideas, your energy, and a desire to develop your skills, experience, and career. Are you ready to make a difference?

ActioNet is an equal-opportunity employer and values inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Full-Time Employees are eligible to participate in our ActioNet’s Benefits Program:

• 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 Recognition Programs
• Employee Assistance and Identity Theft Protection
• Paid Holidays: 11 per year
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Disability Insurance

ActioNet is an equal opportunity employer and value inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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