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

About this role

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…