USAF - Enterprise Requirements Engineer

cFocus Software Incorporated; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

cFocus Software Incorporated seeks an Enterprise Requirements Engineer to join a USAF-support program. The role is on-site in Linthicum Heights, MD and requires Active TS/SCI clearance.

Responsibilities include gathering, analyzing, and managing enterprise IT and cybersecurity requirements, translating needs into clear technical specs, and maintaining traceability across design and verification. The candidate will facilitate stakeholder workshops, align requirements with DC3 architectures, and

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance required.
• Experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing requirements for enterprise IT, cybersecurity, systems engineering, or modernization projects.
• Translate business and mission needs into clear technical requirements with traceability.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and communicate requirements to diverse audiences.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture, cloud/hybrid, data integration, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Perform gap analysis, assess feasibility, and document engineering tradeoffs.
• Experience with governance, change control, configuration management, and iterative delivery.

Responsibilities

• 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 problems, capabilities, constraints, and dependencies.
• Translate stakeholder needs into documented functional, technical, interface, security, and operational requirements with clarity and feasibility checks.
• Maintain requirements records and traceability across needs, architecture decisions, implementation, and verification.
• Support governance, feasibility studies, risk analysis, and roadmap development; identify gaps and dependencies.
• Coordinate with enterprise architects to align requirements with DC3 IT architecture, cloud strategy, and data strategy (classified/unclassified).
• Document data and interface requirements for interoperability with external architectures and systems (JCWA, DAF Battle Network, JADC2, AF OSI Orion).
• Analyze current infrastructure, data sources, and capabilities to identify gaps; support quarterly state assessments.
• Support technical debt analysis and trade studies; contribute inputs on costs and benefits.
• Conduct assessments of COTS and GOTS solutions to inform build/buy decisions and alignment with requirements.
• Facilitate BI requirements workshops and define KPIs for Government approvals (machine learning objectives when assigned).
• Assess changes with project managers/engineers, document impacts, and maintain baselines under governance.
• Coordinate reviews, verification criteria, and priorities with DevSecOps; report status for Government evaluation.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder facilitation

Traceability

Policy & governance

Analytical writing

Education

B.S. in CS/IT or related

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.