Requirements Analyst

Requirements Analyst # Company Overview: The Intelligence and Security Associates (ISA) is a Virginia-based SBA certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. ISA is a proud V3-certified employer, with one in two ISA employees having served in the U.S. military. Additionally, ISA holds a General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract, and One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services + (OASIS+) Total Small Business Pool Contract Vehicle. Originally founded as an education and training company, ISA continues a 20-plus-year tradition of providing value creation for our clients, delivering unique solutions tailored to their specific challenges across a broad range of national security issues and competencies. Our highly qualified subject matter professionals, data and technical experts, and our seasoned senior leaders specialize in national security and intelligence delivery services for the Department of War (DoW), the Intelligence Community (IC), and other federal and commercial entities. Our extensive Program of Work includes broad areas of Mission Engineering and Systems Integration, Strategic Advantage and Warfighter Support, and Operational Enablers to federal government and commercial entities across the defense and national security sectors. # # Job Description: The Requirements Analyst is an analytical and mission-focused role responsible for capturing, analyzing, structuring, and managing operational and technical requirements throughout the system acquisition and software development lifecycles. Operating within federal defense and national security programs, this professional serves as the primary liaison between end-users, mission stakeholders, software developers, and systems engineers. The Requirements Analyst translates complex operational needs into clear, actionable functional specifications, user stories, and traceability matrices, ensuring delivered solutions fully align with federal client capabilities and mission objectives. # Work Model: Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of flexibility and collaboration. Consistent with government and industry standards that support a more fulsome return to in-office culture, ISA supports our clients and provides a working environment that promotes professional development opportunities through peer engagement and face-to-face mentoring. The ability to meet across teams at the office and cross-pollinate information is critical to our success. # # Responsibilities: The Requirements Analyst provides end-to-end requirement lifecycle management across ISAs program portfolio. They are responsible for facilitating requirements gathering workshops, mapping capability gaps, and maintaining formal requirement baselines. Working closely with Project Managers, Systems Engineers, Software Architects, and government leads, the incumbent decomposes high-level mission needs into granular technical user stories, maintains Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM), supports User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and manages baseline changes to minimize scope creep and ensure seamless solution delivery. # # Duties: Elicits detailed technical, functional, and operational requirements from government leads, subject matter experts (SMEs), and operational end-users. Decomposes high-level capability requirements into actionable user stories, detailed acceptance criteria, functional specifications, and use cases. Establishes and maintains formal Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM) to map requirements from initial concept through design, testing, and deployment. Analyzes system requirements for clarity, completeness, consistency, feasibility, and alignment with federal mission objectives. Develops business process flowcharts, "As-Is" and "To-Be" workflow models, system boundary diagrams, and data flow models. Facilitates requirement prioritization sessions, backlog grooming cer monies, and stakeholder review workshops within Agile/Scrum or traditional acquisition frameworks. Manages baseline modification requests, impact assessments, and change control processes to evaluate the technical and cost impact of proposed scope changes. Designs test scenarios, validation criteria, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) scripts to ensure technical implementations satisfy defined requirements. Authors standard operating procedures (SOPs), requirements management plans, system user guides, and technical briefing materials. Collaborates with systems engineering and software development teams to clarify functiona