Mission Liaison, Requirements Analyst – Navy/USMC

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

📋 Description

• Engage with Navy, Marine Corps, USMEPCOM, and other governmental stakeholders to comprehend their accession-processing requirements, workflows, constraints, and business rules.

• Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and sustain 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 in backlog refinement and evaluate user stories for clarity, completeness, testability, dependencies, and readiness.

• Identify conflicting requirements, workflow gaps, dependencies, risks, and unresolved decisions from stakeholders.

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

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

• Capture feedback from demonstrations and transform approved changes into requirements, user stories, backlog updates, or action items.

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

• Address user feedback, defects, enhancement requests, and operational issues in collaboration with Government and technical teams.

• Verify that delivered capabilities meet approved requirements and acceptance criteria.

• Assist in updating user guides, job aids, training materials, release notes, and other documentation intended for users.

• Collaborate with training personnel to ensure materials reflect approved workflows and released functionalities.

• Participate in release-readiness activities, operational validation, and communications to impacted mission stakeholders.

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

• Maintain precise 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 qualification as permitted by the applicable labor category.

• Minimum of six years of pertinent professional experience.

• Experience in eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating, and maintaining business or system requirements.

• Proven experience in developing and refining user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Experience in maintaining requirements traceability throughout the software development lifecycle.

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

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

• Ability to assist with backlog refinement, sprint demonstrations, user acceptance testing, and feedback triage.

• Proficiency in developing clear process documentation, requirements artifacts, user guidance, and stakeholder communications.

• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, analytical, and organizational skills.

• Capacity 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 Navy or Marine Corps 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 requirements and collaboration 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

• Regular full-time employment.

• Opportunity to support a USMEPCOM ENLIST government contract.

• Active participation in competitive government contract bids and related experience.