Mission Liaison – Analyst Lead (Senior)

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Lead engagement with governmental mission owners, end-users, product stakeholders, and technical delivery teams.

• Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and manage functional and mission requirements.

• Break down mission needs into clear, measurable, testable, and traceable requirements.

• Develop and enhance user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, workflows, and functional documentation.

• Evaluate backlog readiness and prepare requirements for sprint planning and execution.

• Maintain comprehensive traceability from mission needs through requirements, design, testing, training, acceptance, and deployed capabilities.

• Coordinate input from mission owners for CONOPS, requirements packages, interface considerations, and solution-development activities.

• Oversee and maintain the User Training Plan.

• Coordinate user guides, job aids, release notes, training materials, and user-facing documentation.

• Establish and manage processes for user collaboration, feedback, and validation throughout the software-development lifecycle.

• Facilitate workshops for requirements, backlog refinement sessions, user reviews, demonstrations, and feedback gatherings.

• Coordinate user acceptance criteria and support user acceptance, operational validation, and release-readiness activities.

• Translate user feedback and operational lessons learned into prioritized requirements, updates to the backlog, and recommendations for improvement.

• Manage release communications with governmental mission owners, end-users, training personnel, and technical teams.

• Identify gaps in requirements, conflicting stakeholder needs, dependencies, and traceability risks, and drive them to resolution.

• Support Agile planning, sprint reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and release-planning activities.

• Ensure alignment of mission requirements and user needs with system architecture, integration requirements, scalability objectives, and operational priorities.

• Prepare briefings, status updates, decision materials, meeting minutes, and other program documentation.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of requirements management, stakeholder engagement, training, and user feedback practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• An active Secret clearance or higher.

• A bachelor’s degree in information systems, business, or a related field, or an equivalent permitted by the applicable labor category.

• A minimum of eight years of relevant professional experience.

• Experience in performing requirements analysis and translating complex mission or business needs into actionable requirements.

• Experience in developing and managing user stories, acceptance criteria, and requirements traceability.

• Experience in coordinating requirements and deliverables across mission stakeholders, users, analysts, developers, testers, trainers, and other technical teams.

• A current business analysis or Agile certification.

• Ability to lead sessions for stakeholder engagement, requirements workshops, backlog refinement discussions, and user feedback activities.

• Capability to produce clear functional requirements, workflows, training inputs, user documentation, release communications, and decision-support materials.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to convey technical information to mission and operational audiences.

• Exceptional organizational and analytical skills with the ability to manage competing priorities, dependencies, and cross-team actions.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting federal or Department of Defense software development, modernization, or systems engineering programs.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting governmental mission owners or acting as a liaison between operational users and technical delivery teams.

• Preferred: Experience in developing or coordinating inputs for CONOPS, user training plans, user guides, release notes, and other operational documentation.

• Preferred: Experience in working within Agile, DevSecOps, or hybrid federal software delivery environments.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting user acceptance testing, demonstrations, release readiness, and operational validation.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, or similar platforms.

• Preferred: Familiarity with requirements traceability matrices, process modeling, workflow analysis, and backlog management practices.

• Preferred: Knowledge of secure software development and systems engineering practices applicable to federal or DoD environments.

• Preferred: Relevant certifications such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, CSM, PSM, SAFe certification, or equivalent credentials.

🏝️ Benefits

• Active Secret clearance or higher is required for the role.

• Regular full-time employment.