Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer

About the role

Peraton is seeking an experienced Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer within our BNATCS Architecture and Systems Engineering group to perform the integration, traceability, and baseline management of requirements across a large-scale federal program.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role - you will be expected to own assigned tasks, produce high-quality artifacts, and operate independently, while providing advisory guidance to leadership and stakeholders when needed.

The position is on-site in Herndon, VA.

Key Responsibilities

• 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
• Design and implement requirements schemas that establish the structural foundation for traceability across the program, ensuring consistent taxonomy, attribute definitions, and linkage conventions that support end-to-end traceability and audit readiness
• Understand and apply the relationship between requirements and enterprise architecture artifacts - including DoDAF views and diagrams - to ensure requirements are grounded in and traceable to the broader architectural context; contribute to the program's evolution toward a digital engineering ecosystem where requirements, architecture, and verification evidence are interconnected and model-driven
• Develop and maintain an integrated requirements baseline that harmonizes customer, derived, interface, and vendor/subcontractor requirements into a single authoritative source of truth; identify and resolve conflicts, gaps, overlaps, and ambiguities across organizational and vendor boundaries
• Build and maintain end-to-end bidirectional traceability - from mission needs through system requirements, subsystem allocations, design artifacts, test procedures, and verification evidence - ensuring coverage is complete, current, and audit-ready at all lifecycle stages; maintain allocation matrices tracking ownership and compliance status across all contributors
• Define and manage interface requirements and interface control documents (ICDs), ensuring data exchanges, protocols, performance expectations, and behavioral contracts are fully specified, baselined, and enforced; proactively identify and drive resolution of integration issues, discrepancies, and gaps that could affect system coherence or compliance
• 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
• Review and assess vendor and subcontractor requirements artifacts - specifications, ICDs, compliance matrices - to ensure alignment with the integrated baseline and program standards; participate in architecture and design reviews (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR) and ensure requirements traceability artifacts and allocation documentation are audit-ready in support of FCA/PCA activities
• 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
• Interface with both government customers and internal stakeholders - including engineering teams, subcontractors, and program leadership - to communicate requirements status, surface and resolve requirements, traceability, and integration issues, and drive alignment across organizational boundaries; able to engage in requirements elicitation discussions and translate operational concepts into well-formed engineering requirements when the situation calls for it
• Translate complex requirements integration challenges, traceability gaps, and allocation risks into clear, actionable guidance for program leadership and government customers; mentor systems engineers, subcontractor staff, and junior analysts in requirements engineering best practices and traceability discipline

Qualifications

• US Citizenship
• Public Trust Clearance - Ability to Obtain and Maintain
• 15+ years of experience in requirements engineering, systems engineering, or technical program support within large-scale programs
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of degree)
• Demonstrated hands-on expertise in requirements integration and traceability within a systems integrator environment, with a proven track record of directly performing - not just directing - requirements integration and traceability activities across multi-vendor, multi-technology solutions
• Deep expertise in requirements engineering practices - analysis, specification, decomposition, allocation, and management - applied to complex system-of-systems, mission-critical, or enterprise-scale environments
• Strong command of requirements management tools - IBM DOORS, DOORS Next, Jama Connect, Polarion, or equivalent - including traceability matrix construction, baselining, and change control; familiarity with Jama Connect is particularly relevant to this program
• Hands-on experience resolving requirements conflicts and gaps across organizational and vendor boundaries in multi-contractor integration environments
• Strong understanding of the full systems engineering lifecycle - from mission-level concept and stakeholder needs through system, subsystem, and component-level requirements - and how requirements evolve, decompose, and get allocated across that continuum; includes fluency with formal review milestones (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FCA/PCA) and the requirements artifacts expected at each gate
• Experience with interface requirements definition and contribution to interface control documents (ICDs) for complex integrated systems
• Working knowledge of federal frameworks (NIST, FedRAMP, RMF) as they generate security and compliance requirements that must be integrated into the broader requirements baseline
• Background in mission-critical or safety-critical complex systems or system-of-systems environments where requirements completeness and traceability directly impact operational safety and mission success
• Familiarity with ITSM and configuration management workflows, and how requirements management aligns within them
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional coordination across systems engineering, software development, test, cybersecurity, and operations teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with requirements engineering for aviation, air traffic management, or national airspace systems, including working knowledge of aviation-specific safety assurance and certification requirements (e.g., DO-178C, DO-254, ARP 4754A)
• Background in model-based systems engineering (MBSE) - familiarity with deriving and managing requirements within SysML/UAF models using tools such as Cameo or Sparx EA
• Experience with AI-assisted requirements analysis - NLP-based quality checking, automated gap detection, conflict identification, and intelligent traceability linking
• Familiarity with requirements integration in Agile and hybrid development environments, including backlog-to-requirements traceability and iterative requirements refinement
• Knowledge of network architecture (SD-WAN, secure transport) requirements specification and allocation in integrated environments
• Relevant certifications such as INCOSE CSEP/ESEP or IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering
• ITIL certification