[Remote] Requirements Management Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Science and Technology Corporation (STC) is a science, sensors, and systems company founded in 1979, seeking candidates for a Requirements Management Engineer to support NOAA on the NESDIS Systems Engineering Services contract. The role focuses on managing requirements throughout the system lifecycle to ensure that satellite data and information processing meets stakeholder needs.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate stakeholder engagement activities to elicit, document, analyze, and refine business, operational, system, and technical requirements from a wide range of stakeholders including internal NESDIS teams, other NOAA offices, government agencies, international partners, and commercial entities. Conduct interviews, workshops, and surveys to understand needs for environmental data and services
• Translate stakeholder needs into clear, concise, and testable requirements. Create detailed documentation such as requirements specifications, user stories, and use cases. Baseline requirements for incoming initiatives, orchestrate reviews, obtain approvals, and track requirements. Report on requirement status to leadership on a periodic and ad hoc basis
• Manage the lifecycle of requirements from source through implementation. Develop, maintain, and report on Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs) and other requirements management artifacts to ensure bidirectional traceability between mission objectives, stakeholder requirements, system requirements, user stories, implementation activities, and verification activities. Review requirements to identify traceability and coverage gaps across components of the NCCF and OCS services
• Manage changes to requirements throughout the project lifecycle. Perform impact analyses to assess effects on scope, schedule, and cost. Maintain requirements baselines and support Configuration Control Board (CCB) activities to ensure requirements changes are reviewed, documented, approved, and implemented in accordance with established governance processes. Prepare CCB briefing materials and requirements change requests
• Utilize Government-designated tools — including Jira, Confluence, IBM DOORS, and successor requirements management platforms — to manage requirements, maintain traceability, document changes, and provide status reporting. Support compliance activities to ensure cloud-based services and enterprise initiatives align with NOAA, NESDIS, NIST, FedRAMP, and other applicable Federal policies and standards
• Participate in Agile and SAFe planning events, sprint activities, technical reviews, demonstrations, backlog refinement sessions, and Program Increment (PI) planning activities to ensure alignment between requirements, development activities, and enterprise priorities

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree
• U.S Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Experience in requirements elicitation and stakeholder engagement
• Ability to translate stakeholder needs into clear, concise, and testable requirements
• Experience in requirements management and traceability
• Ability to manage changes to requirements throughout the project lifecycle
• Experience with Government-designated tools including Jira, Confluence, IBM DOORS, and successor requirements management platforms
• Participation in Agile and SAFe planning events and activities

Benefits

• Paid Time Off Starting at 80 hrs/yr, 11 Federal holidays, and 40 hrs/yr Sick Leave
• 401K with up to 4% employer matching contribution
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance, Short Term/Long Term Disability
• Flexible spending account
• Health savings account
• Tuition reimbursement

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