Lead Business Analyst (Requirements Management)

Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations.

We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting

Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATO’s leading agent for change: driving, facilitating, and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; and improving relationships, interaction and practical cooperation with partners, nations and international organisations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development, capability development, training and lessons-learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

The program 

Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS)

 DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction and coordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate.

The Requirements Division will execute all tasks and activities needed to support requirements management for NATO capabilities

The Capability Requirements (CR) Branch will develop the Capability Requirements Brief and recommended courses of action to resolve issues through the life cycle management of requirements using matrixed, cross-functional project-specific Requirements Management teams.

The Requirements Forward Branch (Mons) is responsible for conducting requirements development and management representation and engagement-related functions in Europe.

The Capability Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with management entities, NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure

The Capability Forward Branch (Mons) coordinates with ACO, NCIA, NSPA, NATO HQ, territorial Host Nations, and NATO Centres of Excellence (COEs) to support the development of capabilities.

Strategic Plans and Policy (SPP) supports Allied Command Transformation in formalizing military advice to shape future military strategy, political guidance, and other policy documents supporting NATO’s strategic objectives.

Role ID: ACT-CDMS-26-02-B-43

 Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Support or lead the formal elicitation, capture, and documentation of capability requirements based on operational and regulatory needs.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across NATO Enterprise to identify and document regulatory requirements and operational constraints that impact capability development.
• Perform detailed analysis and evaluation of identified requirements to ensure clarity, completeness, consistency, and alignment with capability programme objectives.
• Maintain version-controlled requirements repositories, ensuring thorough documentation and traceability throughout the requirements lifecycle.
• Document trade-offs and prioritize functional, non-functional, and regulatory requirements to ensure programme goals are met effectively and efficiently.
• Ensure consistency between requirements and existing strategic-level enterprise architectures, as well as alignment with agreed reference frameworks.
• Ensure coherence and optimization of requirements across ACT capability development programmes.
• Facilitate formal requirements validation processes involving stakeholders to ensure requirements meet operational needs and standards.
• Provide recommendations for resolving conflicts and deconflicting requirements during the validation process.
• Implement quality assurance measures to ensure high standards in requirements documentation, including completeness, accuracy, and consistency.
• Monitor and analyse gaps, overlaps, and dependencies related to capability requirements across programmes.
• Support the Branch Head CR and travel to meetings and conferences both within and outside NATO’s boundaries for up to 30 days per year.
• Perform additional tasks as required by Line Manager. related to the role.

 Essential Skills and Experience

• Essential Qualifications At least five (5) years in the last ten (10) of demonstrable hands-on experience in business analysis and requirements management, using professional requirements documentation and management tools (e.g. Sparx Enterprise Architect, Aris, Jira, DOORS, Jama Connect), in accordance with industry standards and best practices (e.g. International Requirements Engineering Board, Scaled Agile Framework, Business Analysis Body of Knowledge).
• Certification or formal training with demonstratable proficiency in one or more industry in requirements management and business analysis methodologies like IREB, SAFe, IIBA or comparable.
• Demonstrable ability to present requirement sets, business processes and architectures in an easy understandable and accessible way to non-technical audiences, from end users to senior decision makers and approval boards.
• Demonstrable proficiency in effective oral and written communication, including briefing and coordinating with business stakeholders.

 Language Proficiency

• Advanced Proficiency in English

 Working Location

• Norfolk, VA, USA

Working Policy

• On-Site

Contract Duration

• July 2026 – December 2030

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance

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