USAF - Enterprise Requirements Engineer

cFocus Software Incorporated; Linthicum (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

cFocus Software seeks an Enterprise Requirements Engineer to join our program supporting the United States Air Force (USAF). This on-site role is in Linthicum Heights, MD and requires an Active TS/SCI clearance.

You will manage IT and cybersecurity requirements, coordinating with mission owners, users, and technical teams to clarify problems and define capabilities. You will translate business needs into documented requirements, maintain traceability through design and verification, and support

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance required.
• B.S. in CS/IT or related field.
• Experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing requirements for IT, cybersecurity, or modernization projects.
• Translate needs into clear technical requirements with traceability.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and communicate to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture, cloud or hybrid environments, data integration, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Perform gap analysis, assess feasibility, dependencies, and evaluate proposed solutions.
• Experience with governance, change control, configuration management, and iterative delivery.
• Strong analytical and writing skills for requirements, reports, and briefings.

Responsibilities

• Manage incoming IT and cybersecurity project requirements from internal and external customers.
• Facilitate discussions with mission owners, users, technical teams, and external partners.
• Translate stakeholder needs into documented functional, technical, interface, security, and operational requirements.
• Maintain requirements records and traceability through architecture decisions and verification.
• Support governance, feasibility studies, risk analysis, performance tracking, and roadmaps.
• Align requirements with DC3 enterprise IT architecture, cloud strategy, and data strategy.
• Document data and interface requirements for interoperability with external architectures.
• Analyze current infrastructure to identify gaps and inform modernization requirements.
• Support debt analysis and trade studies; contribute cost-benefit inputs and TCO assumptions.
• Conduct assessments of COTS/GOTS solutions to inform build/buy decisions.
• Facilitate BI requirements workshops and outline KPIs for Government approval.
• Coordinate reviews and priorities with DevSecOps; track issues and report status.
• Maintain requirements documents, workshop records, and communicate risks to leadership.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Requirements analysis

Stakeholder workshops

Traceability management

Cybersecurity knowledge

Communication skills

Education

B.S. in CS/IT

Job description

cFocus Software seeks a Enterprise Requirements Engineer to join our program supporting the United States Air Force (USAF). This position is on-site in Linthicum Heights, MD. This position requires an Active TS/SCI clearance.

Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI clearance
• B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• Experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing requirements for enterprise IT, cybersecurity, systems engineering, or modernization projects.
• Ability to translate business and mission needs into clear technical requirements and maintain traceability through design, implementation, and verification.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder workshops, resolving conflicting needs, and communicating requirements to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture, infrastructure, cloud or hybrid environments, data integration, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Ability to perform gap analysis, assess feasibility and dependencies, evaluate proposed solutions, and document engineering tradeoffs.
• Experience with project governance, requirements change control, configuration management, and iterative delivery practices.
• Strong analytical and writing skills for requirements, reports, and briefings

Duties:

• Manage incoming IT and cybersecurity project requirements from internal and external customers, including intake, review, documentation, analysis, and stakeholder communication.
• Facilitate discussions and workshops with mission owners, users, technical teams, and external partners to clarify business problems, desired capabilities, constraints, and dependencies.
• Translate stakeholder needs into documented functional, technical, interface, security, and operational requirements. Review requirements for clarity, consistency, feasibility, and alignment with DC3 priorities.
• Maintain requirements records and traceability between mission needs, approved requirements, architecture decisions, implementation activities, and verification evidence.
• Support project governance, feasibility studies, risk analysis, performance tracking, and roadmap development. Identify gaps, unresolved decisions, and dependencies that affect delivery.
• Work with enterprise architects to align requirements with DC3 enterprise IT architecture, cloud computing strategy, and data strategy, including classified and unclassified environments.
• Document data and interface requirements supporting interoperability with designated external architectures and systems, including JCWA, DAF Battle Network, JADC2, and AF OSI Orion, as applicable.
• Analyze current infrastructure, data sources, and existing capabilities to identify gaps and inform modernization requirements. Support quarterly current-state assessments and inventories.
• Support technical debt analysis and trade studies comparing refactor, replatform, replace, and retire options. Contribute requirements, dependencies, cost-benefit inputs, and Total Cost of Ownership assumptions.
• Conduct technical assessments of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf and Government-Off-The-Shelf solutions to inform build/buy decisions and identify how proposed solutions meet approved requirements.
• Facilitate business intelligence requirements workshops and recommend business questions and key performance indicators for Government approval. Help stakeholders document business problems and proposed machine learning objectives when assigned.
• Assess proposed requirement changes with project managers and engineers, document impacts, and maintain approved baselines under program governance and configuration management procedures.
• Coordinate requirements reviews, verification criteria, and implementation priorities with DevSecOps teams. Track issues and report status for Government evaluation.
• Maintain requirements documents, workshop records, gap analyses, and roadmap inputs. Communicate risks and decisions to Government and program leads.