Summary:

Yorktown Systems Group is seeking a Requirements Traceability Analyst to provide support to the NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) program. The main objectives of the ACT are to provide appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; lead NATO military transformation; improve relationships, interaction and practical cooperation with partners, nations and international organizations.

Specific duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Provide requirements traceability analysis expertise in support of HQ SACT’s requirements engineering and management processes, and specifically in support of Requirements Managers undertaking the Identification, elicitation, capture, analysis, evaluation, integration and maintenance of high-quality capability (business) requirements.
• Support the ongoing development, population and maintenance of the requirements repository.
• Support the maintenance of requirements in the requirements repository, ensuring correct version and configuration control, and the achievement and maintenance of the organization’s requirements traceability and quality expectations.
• Support the development and maintenance of processes relating to requirements traceability, including traceability criteria and processes, and requirements traceability reports related to the requirements life cycle.
• Support development and improvement of requirements management tools, which enable and support the organization’s requirements engineering and requirements management processes.
• Contribute to the development of directives and standard operating procedures that relate to requirements traceability and the ACT Requirements Repository.
• Support requirements engineering and requirements management activities where appropriate across all life cycle stages to ensure continuing integrity of the traceability processes, and that capability requirements continue to satisfy stakeholder needs.
• Contributes to organizational continual process improvement activities.
• Participate in workshops, seminars, conferences and meetings in support of the activities above.
• Identify Lessons and contribute to their Learning within the organization.
• Support to change and configuration management of requirements across the lifecycle.
• Perform additional tasks as required.

Required Qualifications:

• A University Degree in engineering, management, information systems, accounting, economics, finance, business administration, public administration, operations research, program and project management or related disciplines.
• Five years’ experience in the last 10 in the field of requirements engineering and/or requirements management to include elicitation, capture, development, analysis and evaluation of requirements, including the management of requirements traceability, quality and change management.
• Experience in the evaluation of requirements traceability across comprehensive lines of development; i.e. doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel, facilities, and interoperability (DOTMLPFI).
• Experience in requirements development, either as a hands-on requirements author and/or facilitator of requirements development sessions.
• Demonstrated minimum NATO or National SECRET clearance with the appropriate national authority for the duration of the contract.
• Nationality of one of the NATO Countries.
• Demonstrated proficiency in English as defined in STANAG 6001 (Standardized Linguistic Profile (SLP) 3333 - Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) or equivalent.
• Demonstrable recent (i.e. in the last 5 years) experience in managing requirements in accordance with formal configuration and change management processes.
• Demonstrable recent (i.e. in the last 5 years) experience working in support of processes that were formally certified in accordance with the ISO 9001 standard.
• Experience with IBM Rational DOORS Next or equivalent.

Clearance: Must possess a NATO Secret Security Clearance or active Secret clearance issued by a national authority.

Location: Norfolk, VA; Mons, Belgium

Travel: Some travel may be required