Requirements Analyst

Falconwood is a small woman-owned company providing consultation and programmatic support to Department of Defense Information Technology (IT) initiatives and programs. We provide expert advice and consultation on a diverse range of IT subjects, focusing on acquisition, policy, cybersecurity, engineering, and process development.

The Requirements Analyst shall support Commander, Naval Inforamation Forces (Navifor) to translate business requirements into a functional development backlog and effectively act as the liaison between business stakeholders and technical development teams, ensuring alignment of work delivery to the overall product strategy and customer value.

Required:

• Formulates and defines systems scope and objectives through research and fact-finding combined with an understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements. Extracts, analyzes, validates, and manages project requirements throughout the effort's lifecycle.
• Decomposes complex problems, identifies dependencies, resolves conflicts, and prioritizes needs.
• Experience authoring requirements such as epics and user stories, while adhering to best practices
• Experience communicating business needs to technical teams, facilitating requirements sessions, and implementing mediation and conflict resolution techniques to drive stakeholders to common understanding and agreement
• Experience identifying and escalating potential requirements gaps to senior project and customer leadership
• Experience conducting product demonstrations to project stakeholders
• Experience working as an integrated part of a cross-functional team such as working directly with developers and SMEs
• Experience conducting testing and maintain quality assurance of products
• Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile, Scrum, or SAFe
• Ability to translate business requirements into a functional development backlog and effectively act as the liaison between business stakeholders and technical development teams, ensuring alignment of work delivery to the overall product strategy and customer value
• Ability to abstract, synthesize, and communicate complex requirements and adapt communication approach and style depending on the audience
• Experience using project management software such as Jira

Preferred

• Track record of bridging the gap between mission stakeholders and data science teams to document use cases, data dependencies, and acceptance criteria for AI-enabled system integrations.

• Bachelor of Science degree in Analytics, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or related disciplines
• Secret clearance
• Four years' experience in a related field