Requirements Traceability Specialist — Quality Assurance and Assurance Reporting for NATO with security clearance

Location & Visa

Relocation to the United States — Norfolk, Virginia. The employer provides a NATO‑5 visa.

Role Overview

A multinational defence organisation delivers capability through a common‑funded process, and that process is only as good as its traceability. This role provides the quality analysis behind it and keeps the requirements repository honest.

Responsibilities

• Providing quality analysis and expertise across the capability development processes and their outputs.
• Managing the corrective and preventative actions that arise from process assurance and quality reviews.
• Assuring data quality, including the requirements repository and the programme management information.
• Developing and maintaining the traceability criteria and the traceability process itself.
• Producing scheduled and ad‑hoc independent quality assurance reports for programme directors and integrated project teams.
• Contributing to the directives and standard operating procedures on quality and traceability.
• Supporting requirements engineering across every lifecycle stage so integrity survives the handovers.
• Supporting change and configuration management of requirements.
• Participating in workshops, seminars and conferences, and turning lessons into learning.

Requirements

• A university degree in engineering, management, information systems, finance, business, public administration, or a related field.
• Five of the last ten years in requirements engineering or requirements management, covering elicitation, capture and development.
• Experience evaluating traceability across every line of development, not only the materiel one.
• Hands‑on requirements authoring, or facilitation of requirements development sessions.
• Recent experience managing requirements under formal configuration and change control.
• Recent experience supporting processes certified to a recognised quality standard.
• Experience with a formal requirements management tool such as IBM Rational DOORS Next.
• Fluent professional English.
• This is a long engagement that renews year on year, not a short project.