ISR Enterprise IT Requirements Manager

About the role

Credence supports our clients' mission-critical needs, providing cutting-edge solutions like AI/ML, enterprise modernization, and advanced intelligence capabilities to the largest defense and health federal organizations. We are a privately held company, consistently recognized as a top place to work, and have been on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list for 12 years. We practice servant leadership, believing that success for our clients, team members, and partners leads to greater success for everyone.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior requirements management support for ISR Enterprise IT modernization initiatives, including collection, analysis, validation, prioritization, and tracking of technical and operational requirements.
• Coordinate with ACC/A26, AFLCMC, subordinate units, Numbered Air Forces, and technical stakeholders to identify, document, and manage ISR IT requirements, capability gaps, system needs, and integration priorities.
• Support ACC/A26 in identifying, monitoring, evaluating, and advising on emerging multi-discipline ISR technologies and non-materiel IT solutions that may satisfy validated warfighter requirements.
• Develop and maintain requirements traceability matrices, action trackers, task databases, RFI logs, gap lists, decision logs, and requirements status reports to support enterprise visibility and senior leader decision-making.
• Support configuration baseline management forums and governance activities that identify, prioritize, and codify Command ISR system gaps, requirements, technical tasks, and modernization priorities.
• Analyze technological inadequacies and deficiencies affecting multi-discipline ISR capabilities and translate identified gaps into clear, actionable requirements and recommended mitigation approaches.
• Aid in maintaining requirements databases, architectural archives, technical documentation, and knowledge management repositories to ensure requirements are accurate, traceable, and aligned to enterprise objectives.
• Support compliance with prescribed regulations and instructions related to analysis of alternatives, materiel and non-materiel solution analysis, modeling and simulation, cost analysis, and requirements documentation.
• Assist in developing empirical and qualitative assessments for ACC decision-makers regarding the impact of emerging technologies, procedural changes, system updates, TTPs, and organizational structures on current and programmed ISR systems.
• Participate in Joint C4ISR experimentation, operational exercises, innovation events, and system development and integration activities to capture requirements, validate capability needs, document findings, and manage follow-on actions.
• Support units and Numbered Air Forces participating in exercises and experiments across the TACS and AFTE to identify training gaps, system gaps, requirements shortfalls, and capability integration needs.
• Aid in developing training, certification, and implementation materials that support fielding and sustainment of emerging ISR IT systems, applications, and capabilities.
• Coordinate requirements inputs for test plans, implementation schedules, exercise support plans, experimentation activities, and system integration events.
• Prepare executive-level briefings, requirements packages, decision-support products, technical summaries, and status reports for senior government leaders.
• Identify requirements risks, dependencies, schedule impacts, resource constraints, and integration challenges, and recommend actionable solutions to improve requirements execution, traceability, and mission outcomes.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information eligibility/access (TS/SCI) required.
• Master's degree (MA/MS) from an accredited institution in Program Management, Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Intelligence Studies, or a related field.
• Over 10 years of relevant experience supporting requirements management, enterprise IT modernization, ISR systems integration, DoD capability development, or mission systems implementation.
• Experience managing ISR IT requirements, capability gaps, technical tasks, RFIs, requirements traceability, configuration baselines, and senior leader decision-support products.
• Experience supporting ISR systems, C4ISR systems, AF DCGS, TACS, PED, targeting, analysis tools, cloud environments, or related intelligence IT architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to translate operational needs into clear technical requirements, capability statements, gap assessments, and implementation actions.
• Experience coordinating across operational users, technical teams, acquisition stakeholders, system owners, and senior leadership.
• Familiarity with requirements management tools and collaboration platforms such as JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, ServiceNow, or equivalent systems is preferred.
• Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, hybrid project management, IT governance, systems development lifecycle, and capability development processes.
• PMP, DAWIA, Agile, Scrum, ITIL, systems engineering, or requirements management certification is preferred but not required.
• Significant experience managing ISR Enterprise IT requirements may be accepted as a substitute.
• Strong ability to manage multiple requirements workstreams, analyze complex technical issues, and produce clear, decision-quality products for senior leaders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience developing executive briefings, requirements documentation, meeting materials, and stakeholder coordination products.

Qualifications

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Training & Development