Subject Matter Expert (SME) Requirements Engineer

Jobvite, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life & AD&D

401(k) Savings

Education & Training

FSA

Referral Program

PTO

Paid Holidays

Disability Insurance

Job summary

ActioNet is seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Requirements Engineer to support a large federal modernization program in a hybrid role based in Suitland, MD. You will lead elicitation sessions and produce real, traceable requirements artifacts across functional, technical, security, and performance domains.

You will collaborate with PMs, architects, cybersecurity, and operations, traveling as needed. U.S. citizenship is required; 10+ years of relevant experience is expected.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in requirements engineering or related field on federal programs.
• Ability to elicit and document multiple requirement types.
• Hands-on experience with traceability, baselining, version control, and change analysis.
• Experience across the full SDLC from planning to operations.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan and facilitate discovery sessions, interviews, and design reviews.
• Translate needs into testable functional, technical, security, and data requirements.
• Establish and maintain baselines and traceability from business need to operations.
• Analyze proposed changes and assess impacts on architecture, schedule, and security.
• Prepare packages, review records, and maintain traceability metrics.
• Mentor engineers and define quality templates.

Skills

Requirements Elicitation

Traceability

Change Impact Analysis

Quality Standards

Facilitation

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Version Control

Traceability Matrices

Documentation Tools

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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