Peraton is seeking an experienced Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer within our Systems Engineering organization to lead the elicitation, integration, management, and traceability of requirements across a large-scale federal program. In Peraton's role as a systems integrator, this position is the linchpin that ensures requirements flowing from the government customer, internal engineering teams, subcontractors, and vendor product specifications are captured, harmonized, and maintained as a single coherent baseline — not as disconnected fragments scattered across organizational boundaries.
You will own the authoritative requirements baseline for the integrated program. This means resolving conflicts between competing stakeholder needs, closing gaps where no one has claimed ownership, eliminating ambiguities that would otherwise surface as integration defects, and maintaining the traceability thread that connects mission intent to allocated responsibility. In an integration environment where dozens of contributors deliver against different subsets of requirements, your work is what ensures the whole adds up to more than the sum of its parts.
This postion will be located in Herndon, VA.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the elicitation, analysis, and documentation of system, subsystem, and interface requirements from government stakeholders, mission concept documents, standards, and operational needs
- Conduct stakeholder needs analysis to translate high-level mission objectives and operational concepts into well-formed, actionable engineering requirements
- Perform requirements decomposition and allocation across the integrated system architecture, mapping high-level mission requirements to specific components — custom-developed, COTS, GOTS, and third-party vendor systems — with clear ownership and accountability
- Establish and enforce requirements quality standards — completeness, correctness, consistency, testability, feasibility, and unambiguity — across all requirements authored by internal teams, subcontractors, and vendors
- Develop and maintain integrated requirements baselines that harmonize customer requirements, derived engineering requirements, interface requirements, and vendor/subcontractor specification commitments into a single, authoritative source of truth
- Identify and resolve requirements conflicts, gaps, overlaps, and ambiguities that arise when integrating requirements from multiple sources, vendors, and organizational boundaries — a challenge uniquely amplified in an integrator environment
- Define and manage interface requirements and contribute to interface control documents (ICDs), ensuring that data exchanges, protocols, performance expectations, and behavioral contracts between integrated components are fully specified and agreed upon
- Coordinate requirements negotiations between government customers, internal engineering teams, and subcontractors when competing needs, technical constraints, or resource limitations require trade-offs
- Conduct requirements impact analysis for proposed changes, evaluating cross-system effects across multi-vendor components and supporting Configuration Control Board (CCB) decisions with requirements-level evidence
- Build and maintain end-to-end requirements traceability — from mission/stakeholder needs through system requirements, subsystem allocations, design artifacts, test procedures, and verification evidence — using requirements management tools (IBM DOORS, DOORS Next, Jama Connect, or equivalent)
- Ensure bidirectional traceability is complete and current, enabling rapid impact analysis, coverage assessment, and audit readiness at any point in the systems engineering lifecycle
- Manage requirements configuration control, ensuring that baselined requirements are change-controlled, versioned, and synchronized with the program's configuration management processes
- Maintain allocation matrices that clearly map every requirement to its responsible owner — whether internal team, subcontractor, or vendor — and track allocation acceptance and compliance status
- Generate traceability metrics and reports — requirements coverage, allocation completeness, open TBDs/TBRs, change activity, and baseline health — for program leadership, government stakeholders, and engineering teams
- Participate in architecture and design reviews (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR) to evaluate requirements adequacy, allocation correctness, and traceability completeness at each lifecycle milestone
- Review and assess vendor and subcontractor requirements artifacts — specifications, ICDs, compliance matrices — to ensure alignment with the integrated requirements baseline and program standards
- Collaborate with enterprise architects, software architects, cybersecurity teams, data architects, and test engineers to ensure requirements are complete, allocable, and verifiable across all technical domains
- Support functional and physical configuration audits (FCA/PCA) by providing requirements traceability evidence and allocation documentation
- Translate complex requirements integration challenges, traceability gaps, and allocation risks into clear, actionable guidance for program leadership, government customers, and non-technical audiences
- Mentor and guide systems engineers, subcontractor requirements staff, and junior analysts in requirements engineering best practices, traceability discipline, and integration methodology
