Description
Overview Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter. Come work with the best! We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. SPA: Objective. Responsive. Trusted. The Joint, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Interagency Division provides expert support services to a range of customers spanning across the Department of Defense, Federal Civilian, and international markets. JOID provides a diverse portfolio of analytical and programmatic capabilities to help our customers make informed decisions on their most challenging issues. SPAs NATO Allied Command Transformation Group within JOID provides capability development, portfolio management, program management, quality management, cost estimation analysis, standardization, reporting, software solutions and information management, and capability management support. We also provide an improved capability requirements capture process, including the generation, documentation and tracing of user requirements, with appropriate technical scrutiny, over the entire lifecycle of the requirements from capability definition through capability realization and capability usage. We have a near-term need for an Analytics Specialist - Capability Lifecycle Manager to provide onsite support out of Allied Command Transformation (NATO) in Norfolk, VA. Responsibilities The candidate will design, develop, and maintain analytic products that provide visibility into requirements definition, maturity, completeness, and alignment across the capability lifecycle. Support the analysis, decomposition, and structuring of complex system and capability requirements to enable effective analytics, traceability, and decision support. Develop analytics and reports that assess traceability between requirements, architectures, capabilities, verification artifacts, and delivery outcomes across engineering repositories. Integrate requirements and engineering data from multiple authoritative sources to enable unified analysis, reporting, and cross-domain insight as well as support configuration management and change control activities by developing analytics that track requirement baselines, version history, change impacts, and configuration status. Define, calculate, and maintain metrics that measure requirements quality, engineering progress, technical risk, and delivery readiness. Develop, customize, and maintain dashboards, reports, and visualizations that communicate engineering status, risks, and trends to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Integrate and correlate engineering data with programmatic, schedule, and risk data to support holistic capability lifecycle analysis. Perform validation, consistency checks, and quality assurance activities on engineering and requirements data to ensure accuracy and reliability of analytic outputs, plus produce analytic products that support requirements reviews, design trade-off analyses, technical governance forums, and capability assurance activities. Support stakeholder engagement, process improvement and automation, tool and workflow support, documentation, user training and knowledge transfer, and capability lifecycle engineering. Qualifications Required: 8+ years of progressive professional experience in requirements engineering systems analysis, engineering analytics, or related disciplines supporting complex technical systems within defence, security, or similarly regulated environments. Demonstrated expertise in requirements lifecycle management, including requirements capture, decomposition, traceability, validation, and verification across the capability lifecycle using enterprise requirements or lifecycle management tools. Demonstrated experience developing analytics, metrics, and visualizations that provide insight into requirements status, maturity, risk, and alignment to support engineering decision-making and technical governance. Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or 12+ years of equivalent professional experience. Demonstrated experience integrating engineering and requirements data from multiple authoritative sources to support cross-system analysis, traceability, and reporting in enterprise environments. Demonstrated experience supporting configuration management and change control activities, including baselining, version control, impact analysis, and compliance with organizational, NATO, or DoD standards. Demonstrated experience supporting full systems or SDLC activities, including requirements analysis, system design, testing, verification, and deployment. Demonstrated proficiency in data analysis and reporting, including use of business intelligence or analytics tools to translate engineering data into actionable insight for technical and non-technical stakeholders. Demonstrated professional experience operating within secure or classified environments, including adherence to security classification handling, data protection, and access control requirements. Demonstrated ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary and international teams, including engineers, architects, program managers, and stakeholders to translate engineering data into decision-support products. Active NATO or National SECRET clearance. Able to work fully onsite based on client needs. Proficiency in English as defined in STANAG 6001. Proficiency in effective oral and written communication, including briefing and coordinating with business stakeholders.
Qualifications
Required: 8+ years of progressive professional experience in requirements engineering systems analysis, engineering analytics, or related disciplines supporting complex technical systems within defence, security, or similarly regulated environments. Demonstrated expertise in requirements lifecycle management, including requirements capture, decomposition, traceability, validation, and verification across the capability lifecycle using enterprise requirements or lifecycle management tools. Demonstrated experience developing analytics, metrics, and visualizations that provide insight into requirements status, maturity, risk, and alignment to support engineering decision-making and technical governance. Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or 12+ years of equivalent professional experience. Demonstrated experience integrating engineering and requirements data from multiple authoritative sources to support cross-system analysis, traceability, and reporting in enterprise environments. Demonstrated experience supporting configuration management and change control activities, including baselining, version control, impact analysis, and compliance with organizational, NATO, or DoD standards. Demonstrated experience supporting full systems or SDLC activities, including requirements analysis, system design, testing, verification, and deployment. Demonstrated proficiency in data analysis and reporting, including use of business intelligence or analytics tools to translate engineering data into actionable insight for technical and non-technical stakeholders. Demonstrated professional experience operating within secure or classified environments, including adherence to security classification handling, data protection, and access control requirements. Demonstrated ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary and international teams, including engineers, architects, program managers, and stakeholders to translate engineering data into decision-support products. Active NATO or National SECRET clearance. Able to work fully onsite based on client needs. Proficiency in English as defined in STANAG 6001. Proficiency in effective oral and written communication, including briefing and coordinating with business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
The candidate will design, develop, and maintain analytic products that provide visibility into requirements definition, maturity, completeness, and alignment across the capability lifecycle. Support the analysis, decomposition, and structuring of complex system and capability requirements to enable effective analytics, traceability, and decision support. Develop analytics and reports that assess traceability between requirements, architectures, capabilities, verification artifacts, and delivery outcomes across engineering repositories. Integrate requirements and engineering data from multiple authoritative sources to enable unified analysis, reporting, and cross-domain insight as well as support configuration management and change control activities by developing analytics that track requirement baselines, version history, change impacts, and configuration status. Define, calculate, and maintain metrics that measure requirements quality, engineering progress, technical risk, and delivery readiness. Develop, customize, and maintain dashboards, reports, and visualizations that communicate engineering status, risks, and trends to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Integrate and correlate engineering data with programmatic, schedule, and risk data to support holistic capability lifecycle analysis. Perform validation, consistency checks, and quality assurance activities on engineering and requirements data to ensure accuracy and reliability of analytic outputs, plus produce analytic products that support requirements reviews, design trade-off analyses, technical governance forums, and capability assurance activities. Support stakeholder engagement, process improvement and automation, tool and workflow support, documentation, user training and knowledge transfer, and capability lifecycle engineering.
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