Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Requirements Specialist with a TS/SCI Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in McLean, VA. Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.

THE PROGRAM

The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community. We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013. We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.
THE PROJECT
The Sponsor is revolutionizing analysis by delivering innovative tools that enable users to better find relevant information, identify connections in the data, and collaborate with the Sponsor and Sponsor’s partner’s counterparts. One of the Sponsor’s goals is to make analysts more effective at their jobs. The Sponsor seeks a dynamic candidate with multifaceted knowledge of requirements gathering, validation, and tracking to join its 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 Requirements Specialist 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, and elicit application requirements from stakeholders. They will also collaborate with local and community end users, collaborate with the Sponsor and its development partners, incorporate requirements into the application development plan, and support the Sponsor’s analytic production application and analytic workflow processes. Finally, the Requirements Specialist will provide end user support and oversee the requirements tracking process.

THE ROLE

The DarkStar Group is looking for a skilled requirements specialist with experience with multifaceted knowledge of requirements gathering, validation, and tracking.

Required Skills

• 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 Sponsor 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.

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Demonstrated familiarity with the Sponsor’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 Sponsor and its partners
• Demonstrated experience with Confluence software.
• Demonstrated experience supporting project managers, subject matter experts, and the Sponsor 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 Sponsor’s Project Management Framework.

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you. 

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

• very strong salaries;
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
• the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
• 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
• a generously-funded HSA;
• an 8% 401(k) contribution; 
• 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
• the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
• a generous training budget;
• $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
• business development / growth incentives; and
• top notch company swag.

** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.