Senior Requirements Engineer

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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-44

Background

1. Deputy Chief of Staff Capability Development (DCOS CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction and co-ordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate. CAPDEV is responsible to:
   1. Identify and prioritize Alliance capability development from short to long term, ensuring coherence between all capabilities within the CAPDEV portfolio.
   2. Lead the determination of required capabilities and prioritization of shortfalls to inform the delivery of materiel and non-materiel solutions across the Doctrine, Organisation, Training, Material, and Leadership, Personnel, Facilities and Interoperability (DOTMLPFI) lines of effort to enable a holistic approach to capability development, ensuring improved interoperability, deployability and sustainability of Alliance Forces.
2. The future Capability Development Directorate will include enduring functionality to effectively plan and manage coherent through life capability development, aligned to NATO’s strategic intent and priorities. The CAPDEV Data and Analytics Office (DAO) is responsible to DCOS for managing the data and platform operations for Capability Lifecycle, Requirements, and P3M data as well as providing analytics as service and enabling self-service analytics for CAPDEV decision makers.
3. As part of ongoing organisational functional reviews, CAPDEV is in the process of implementing measures for improved capability development planning and management, including the way it collects, manages, analyses and reports on capability development and delivery information, both legacy and current.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Requirements Analytics and Engineering Insight: Design, develop, and maintain analytic products that provide visibility into requirements definition, maturity, completeness, and alignment across the capability lifecycle.
• Requirements Capture and Decomposition Support: Support the analysis, decomposition, and structuring of complex system and capability requirements to enable effective analytics, traceability, and decision support.
• Requirements Traceability and Linkage Analysis: Develop analytics and reports that assess traceability between requirements, architectures, capabilities, verification artifacts, and delivery outcomes across engineering repositories.
• Engineering Data Integration and Interoperability: Integrate requirements and engineering data from multiple authoritative sources to enable unified analysis, reporting, and cross-domain insight.
• Configuration and Change Management Analytics: Support configuration management and change control activities by developing analytics that track requirement baselines, version history, change impacts, and configuration status.
• Engineering Performance Metrics: Define, calculate, and maintain metrics that measure requirements quality, engineering progress, technical risk, and delivery readiness.
• Business Intelligence Development (Engineering Focus): Develop, customize, and maintain dashboards, reports, and visualizations that communicate engineering status, risks, and trends to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Cross-System Engineering Reporting: Integrate and correlate engineering data with programmatic, schedule, and risk data to support holistic capability lifecycle analysis.
• Data Quality and Validation: Perform validation, consistency checks, and quality assurance activities on engineering and requirements data to ensure accuracy and reliability of analytic outputs.
• Decision Support for Engineering Reviews: Produce analytic products that support requirements reviews, design trade-off analyses, technical governance forums, and capability assurance activities.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with engineers, architects, analysts, program managers, and international stakeholders to capture analytic requirements and translate them into actionable engineering-focused analytics.
• Process Improvement and Automation: Identify opportunities to streamline and automate engineering analytics, reporting, and data preparation workflows to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Tool and Workflow Support: Support the configuration and effective use of analytics tools and engineering workflows to ensure adoption and consistent use across stakeholders.
• Documentation: Develop and maintain documentation describing analytic logic, data sources, assumptions, and limitations for engineering-focused analytics and reports.
• User Training and Knowledge Transfer: Deliver training sessions, user guides, and ad hoc support to ensure effective adoption and interpretation of engineering analytics products.
• Capability Lifecycle Engineering Support: Apply analytics expertise to support requirements-based planning, capability development, verification, validation, and delivery assurance activities.
• Technical Support: Provide ongoing analytic support and troubleshooting for engineering-focused analytics, reports, and dashboards.
• Additional Tasks: Perform additional tasks as required by the COTR related to this labor category.

Essential Skills and Experience

• 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.
• 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 software development lifecycle (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.
• Demonstrable proficiency in effective oral and written communication, including briefing and coordinating with business stakeholders.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

 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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