Requirements Engineer - Remote (Temporary Position)

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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.

NOTE : This is currently a TEMPORARY POSITION expected to end in February 2027, with the chance for follow-on work.

• B.S./B.A. degree and minimum 5+ years of experience in requirements engineering, business analysis, systems engineering, workflow analysis, or related technical/mission-support roles.
• Demonstrated experience eliciting, structuring, and prioritizing complex requirements across cross-functional or mission-driven environments.
• Experience conducting stakeholder interviews, workflow assessments, or capability gap analyses.
• Ability to translate mission needs into clear technical specifications, interface requirements, and workflow documentation.
• Experience supporting development teams and contributing to end-to-end capability delivery processes.
• Experience researching and recommending solutions within federal government environments.
• Familiarity with agile or iterative development approaches and incremental mission capability deployment.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey technical or mission concepts to diverse audiences including engineers, analysts, and operational stakeholders.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain DHS EOD Suitability

• Experience supporting federal law enforcement, homeland security, intelligence, or other mission-focused federal environments.
• Experience conducting stakeholder interviews, workflow assessments, or capability gap analyses.
• Experience supporting or contributing to test planning, requirements traceability, or validation/verification activities.
• Understanding of secure-system principles, data integrity requirements, and constraints common to investigative or forensic applications.
• Experience preparing requirements documents, capability gap analyses, workflow models, or integration plans.
• Familiarity with digital forensics, blockchain analysis concepts, investigative workflows, or cyber/technical mission environments.

$85,678.38 - $200,993.63 a year

Please note: The listed salary range reflects our market-based compensation structure. Final compensation will depend on business needs, local market conditions, internal equity, and the selected candidate’s skills, education, and experience.

Benefits

• Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
• 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
• 100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
• 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
• 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
• Competitive Pay
• Generous paid leave and holiday package
• Tuition and training reimbursement
• Life and AD&D Insurance

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.