Requirements Engineer

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Description of Task to be Performed:

The Requirements Engineer will serve as a core member of a multidisciplinary mission team supporting federal law enforcement initiatives to counter transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), cyber-enabled financial crime, digital evidence challenges, and global illicit network activity. This role focuses on eliciting, analyzing, and structuring mission and technical requirements across investigative, forensic, and cyber operations domains.

You will engage directly with stakeholders across our federal customer ecosystem to understand mission workflows, identify capability gaps, assess integration challenges, and translate needs into clear, actionable requirements. This position is ideal for a requirements engineer who excels at stakeholder interviewing, requirements clarification, capability assessment, and shaping development recommendations that drive future mission capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct structured stakeholder interviews and workshops across federal law enforcement, investigative, forensic, and cyber organizations to capture mission needs, constraints, and priorities.
• Analyze mission workflows, organizational processes, and user pain points to identify inefficiencies, gaps, and opportunities for capability enhancement.
• Develop clear, actionable requirements; produce capability decompositions, interface definitions, and mission-aligned workflows.
• Collaborate with developers, analysts, forensic specialists, and mission users to refine, validate, and prioritize requirements through iterative development cycles.
• Provide recommendations regarding future capability development, system improvements, and integration strategies based on stakeholder insights and mission analysis.
• Support system testing and validation efforts by ensuring requirements traceability, participating in test planning, and reviewing results for requirement alignment.
• Contribute to the integration of new capabilities into operational environments, ensuring solutions align with documented needs and mission constraints.
• Produce structured analyses to support technical decision-making, including capability gap analysis, trade studies, and feasibility assessments.
• Contribute to project deliverables, enduring inputs are received in a timely manner to meet customer due dates.
• Assist and mentor team members in applying requirements-engineering best practices and structured analytical methods.

Benefits 

About AnaVation 

AnaVation is the leader in solving the most complex technical challenges for collection and processing in the U.S. Federal Intelligence Community. We are a US owned company headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. We deliver groundbreaking research with advanced software and systems engineering that provides an information advantage to contribute to the mission and operational success of our customers. We offer complex challenges, a top-notch work environment, and a world-class, collaborative team.  

 

If you want to grow your career and make a difference while doing it, AnaVation is the perfect fit for you! 

 

AnaVation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.