Mission Liaison, Requirements Analyst – Army/U.S. Air Force

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

📋 Description

• Collaborate with Army, U.S. Air Force, USMEPCOM, and other Government stakeholders to identify accession-processing needs, workflows, constraints, and business rules

• Gather, analyze, document, validate, and maintain functional and mission requirements

• Convert operational needs and business rules into user stories, use cases, process flows, and acceptance criteria

• Collaborate with mission owners, product stakeholders, developers, testers, and trainers to clarify requirements and address inquiries

• Maintain the Requirements Traceability Matrix, ensuring traceability across mission needs, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, test cases, defects, training materials, and released capabilities

• Assist with backlog refinement and evaluate user stories for clarity, completeness, testability, dependencies, and readiness

• Identify conflicting requirements, gaps in workflows, dependencies, risks, and unresolved stakeholder decisions

• Facilitate sprint planning, reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and other Agile delivery activities

• Prepare mission stakeholders and users for sprint demonstrations and capability reviews

• Collect feedback from demonstrations and convert approved changes into requirements, user stories, backlog updates, or action items

• Assist with user acceptance testing by developing acceptance criteria, reviewing test scenarios, coordinating user participation, and documenting results

• Manage user feedback, defects, enhancement requests, and operational concerns with Government and technical teams

• Verify that delivered capabilities meet approved requirements and acceptance criteria

• Aid in the update of user guides, job aids, training materials, release notes, and other user-facing documentation

• Coordinate with training personnel to ensure materials reflect approved workflows and released functionality

• Contribute to release-readiness activities, operational validation, and communications to affected mission stakeholders

• Prepare materials for meetings, briefings, decision papers, workflow documentation, meeting minutes, and status reports

• Maintain requirements artifacts in Government-approved repositories and collaboration platforms

• Promote continuous improvement in requirements management, traceability, user feedback, and acceptance processes

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, business, or a related field, or an equivalent accepted by the relevant labor category

• Minimum of six years of relevant professional experience

• Proven experience in eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating, and maintaining business or system requirements

• Experience in developing and refining user stories and acceptance criteria

• Proficient in maintaining requirements traceability throughout the software development lifecycle

• Experience collaborating with mission stakeholders, users, developers, testers, trainers, and other cross-functional delivery teams

• Ability to analyze complex workflows and translate operational needs and business rules into clear, testable requirements

• Capability to support backlog refinement, sprint demonstrations, user acceptance testing, and feedback management

• Skill in developing process documentation, requirements artifacts, user guidance, and stakeholder communications

• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, analytical, and organizational skills

• Ability to manage multiple requirements, stakeholder inputs, dependencies, and action items within a structured delivery environment

• Preferred: business analysis or Agile certification, such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, ECBA, CSM, PSM, SAFe certification, or equivalent credential

• Preferred: experience in supporting military accession processing, recruiting, personnel processing, or related Army or U.S. Air Force workflows

• Preferred: experience in supporting highly regulated, rules-driven, or audit-sensitive operational workflows

• Preferred: experience in supporting federal or Department of Defense software development or modernization programs

• Preferred: experience in maintaining a Requirements Traceability Matrix and linking requirements to test cases, defects, training materials, and release artifacts

• Preferred: experience in developing or updating user guides, job aids, release notes, training materials, or related operational documentation

• Preferred: familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, or similar platforms

• Preferred: familiarity with Agile, DevSecOps, systems engineering, and secure software development practices

• Preferred: knowledge of user acceptance testing, defect triage, release readiness, and change management processes

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Retirement savings plan with employer matching contributions

• Opportunities for professional development and continuing education

• Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance

• Generous paid time off and holiday policies