Mission Liaison / Requirements Analyst - Army/U.S. Air Force (Journeyman)

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Mission Liaison / Requirements Analyst to support Army and U.S. Air Force accession-processing requirements for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This role works directly with Government mission owners, accession-processing stakeholders, users, business analysts, software teams, testers, trainers, and other technical personnel to translate mission needs and business rules into actionable software requirements.

The Mission Liaison / Requirements Analyst elicits and documents requirements, develops user stories and acceptance criteria, and maintains traceability throughout the software-development lifecycle. The analyst also supports sprint demonstrations, user acceptance testing, feedback triage, training updates, and the development of user guidance.

This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Mission Liaison / Requirements Analyst will:

- Engage Army, U.S. Air Force, USMEPCOM, and other Government stakeholders to understand accession-processing needs, workflows, constraints, and business rules.

- Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and maintain functional and mission requirements.

- Translate operational needs and business rules into clear, actionable user stories, use cases, process flows, and acceptance criteria.

- Work with mission owners, product stakeholders, developers, testers, and trainers to clarify requirements and resolve questions.

- Maintain the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and ensure traceability among mission needs, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, test cases, defects, training materials, and released capabilities.

- Support backlog refinement and assess user stories for clarity, completeness, testability, dependencies, and readiness.

- Identify conflicting requirements, workflow gaps, dependencies, risks, and unresolved stakeholder decisions.

- Support sprint planning, reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and other Agile delivery activities.

- Prepare mission stakeholders and users for sprint demonstrations and capability reviews.

- Capture demonstration feedback and translate approved changes into requirements, user stories, backlog updates, or action items.

- Support user acceptance testing by developing acceptance criteria, reviewing test scenarios, coordinating user participation, and documenting results.

- Triage user feedback, defects, enhancement requests, and operational concerns in coordination with Government and technical teams.

- Verify that delivered capabilities satisfy approved requirements and documented acceptance criteria.

- Support updates to user guides, job aids, training materials, release notes, and other user-facing documentation.

- Coordinate with training personnel to ensure that materials accurately reflect approved workflows and released functionality.

- Assist with release-readiness activities, operational validation, and communications to affected mission stakeholders.

- Prepare meeting materials, briefings, decision papers, workflow documentation, meeting minutes, and status reports.

- Maintain organized and accurate requirements artifacts in Government-approved repositories and collaboration platforms.

- Support continuous improvement of requirements-management, traceability, user-feedback, and acceptance processes.

Qualifications

Candidates must possess all the following:

- An active Secret clearance or higher.

- A bachelor’s degree in information systems, business, or a related field, or an equivalent permitted by the applicable labor category.

- At least six years of relevant professional experience.

- Experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating, and maintaining business or system requirements.

- Experience developing and refining user stories and acceptance criteria.

- Experience maintaining requirements traceability across the software-development lifecycle.

- Experience working with mission stakeholders, users, developers, testers, trainers, and other cross-functional delivery personnel.

- Ability to analyze complex workflows and translate operational needs and business rules into clear, testable requirements.

- Ability to support backlog refinement, sprint demonstrations, user acceptance testing, and feedback triage.

- Ability to develop clear process documentation, requirements artifacts, user guidance, and stakeholder communications.

- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, analytical, and organizational skills.

- Ability to manage multiple requirements, stakeholder inputs, dependencies, and action items in a structured delivery environment.

Preferred Qualifications

The following qualifications are preferred:

- A business analysis or Agile certification, such as Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA), Entry Certificate in Business Analysis (ECBA), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe certification, or an equivalent credential.

- Experience supporting military accession processing, recruiting, personnel processing, or related Army or U.S. Air Force workflows.

- Experience supporting another highly regulated, rules-driven, or audit-sensitive operational workflow.

- Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software-development or modernization programs.

- Experience maintaining a Requirements Traceability Matrix and connecting requirements to test cases, defects, training materials, and release artifacts.

- Experience developing or updating user guides, job aids, release notes, training materials, or related operational documentation.

- Familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, or comparable requirements and collaboration platforms.

- Familiarity with Agile, DevSecOps, systems-engineering, and secure software-development practices.

- Knowledge of user acceptance testing, defect triage, release readiness, and change-management processes.

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- EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.

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