Requirements Specialist

Leidos hiring for Requirements Specialist jobs in Bethesda, MD, US

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Requirements Specialist

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At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

If this sounds like the kind of environment where you can thrive, keep reading!

We are in search of an experienced Requirements Specialist to support an enterprise IT program.

Our client is revolutionizing analysis by delivering innovative tools which enable users to better find relevant information, identify connections in the data, and collaborate with the client and client’s counterparts.  One of the client’s goals is to make analysts more effective at their jobs by leveraging technology.

We’re seeking a dynamic candidate with multifaceted knowledge of requirements gathering, validation, and tracking to join an existing group of Subject Matter Experts, Requirements Specialist, Systems Analysts, Systems Engineers, PMs, Trainers and Mission Partners. This is a fast-paced mission-supporting, analytical environment, which manages mission requirements and introduces cutting-edge technologies.

The ideal candidate is a skilled Requirements Specialist with experience with multifaceted knowledge of our client, requirements gathering, validation, and tracking. Successful candidates need to have experience using JIRA project management software. 

Are you ready to make an impact? Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful career, share your resume with us today!

In this role you will:

• Support the Agile requirements process for application development,
• Attend regular team meetings to discuss ongoing application updates and improvements,
• Help the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction,
• Elicit application requirements from stakeholders,
• Collaborate with local and community end users,
• Collaborate with the client and their development partners,
• Incorporate requirements into the application development plan,
• Support the client’s analytic production application and analytic workflow processes,
• Provide end user support and oversee the requirements tracking process.

Required Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

Required Experience, Skills, and Education:

• Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of relevant experience. Additional work experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Demonstrated experience managing requirements in an Agile development environment and consulting in a multi-project environment.
• Demonstrated experience using JIRA project management software.
• Demonstrated experience providing training and demonstrations to application users.
• Demonstrated experience drafting and performing a vetting process for new requirements, making sure all relevant information is provided prior to client approval/concurrence.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating and facilitating exchange meetings or forums to determine customer needs.
• Demonstrated experience consulting with customers to clarify and validate complex requests.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating, facilitating, and providing substantive input to meetings to assist in the design and implementation of requirements and to determine the impact of changes.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings with stakeholders to prioritize work.
• Demonstrated experience performing a final technical review and validation of requirements.
• Demonstrated experience preparing requirements for review and acceptance.
• Demonstrated experience ensuring all outstanding requests for requirements are tracked.
• Demonstrated experience monitoring submitted requirements and communicating their status.
• Demonstrated experience interacting with service providers and customers to resolve complex concerns associated with pending or in-process requirements.
• Demonstrated experience ensuring follow-up with customers and service providers, verifying the completion of requirements with customers and service providers, and ensuring expectations are properly met.
• Demonstrated experience assisting with the collection and reporting of requirements-related metrics.

Preferred Experience, Skills, and Education:

• Demonstrated familiarity with the client’s production applications and analytic workflow processes.
• Demonstrated experience using Tableau desktop to provide high-level data visualizations.
• Demonstrated experience conducting application adoption activities with the client and their partners.
• Demonstrated experience with Confluence software.
• Demonstrated experience supporting project managers, subject matter experts, and the client by planning projects, developing contingencies, and producing schedules.
• Demonstrated experience supporting concept development, systems specifications, technical exchanges, and metrics analysis.
• Demonstrated experience resolving problems, to include organizing and structuring solutions to complex problems.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating and collaborating skills with the ability to work successfully across organizational boundaries.
• Demonstrated experience testing end-to-end requirements in applications for making deployment decisions.
• Demonstrated experience at the working level with the client’s Project Management Framework.

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.