Requirements Management Lead

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Every intelligence mission starts with a question. You'll make sure the right questions reach the right experts and that every answer goes back to the customer who asked. Peraton is looking for a Requirements Analyst to join a mission-critical digital and technical exploitation program supporting the Intelligence Community. You'll be the link between IC customers and a team of forensic examiners, reverse engineers, biometric and multimedia analysts, and data scientists, turning customer needs into exploitation tasking and tracking each requirement until it's satisfied. If you like being at the center of the action, keeping complex work organized, and seeing your coordination turn into intelligence that shapes national security decisions, this role is for you.

What You'll Do

• Manage the daily intake, logging, and routing of collection, exploitation, and production requirements and Requests for Information (RFIs) from IC and DoD customers.
• Review incoming requirements for completeness and clarity, and work with customers to refine what they need, by when, and why.
• Turn customer intelligence needs into clear, actionable exploitation tasking for digital forensics, reverse engineering, identity intelligence, and multimedia teams.
• Support prioritization of the requirements queue against customer intelligence priorities, and recommend adjustments as priorities change.
• Track requirement status from intake through completion, and coordinate with analysts, examiners, and team leads to manage workload and meet deadlines.
• Review finished reporting to confirm it answers the original requirement, and close the loop with the customer.
• Maintain the requirements database and workflow tools (e.g., Appian), keeping records accurate, current, and auditable.
• Produce status reports, metrics, and briefings on requirement volume, timeliness, and fulfillment for customers and program leadership.
• Identify gaps, recurring requests, and process bottlenecks, and recommend improvements to intake and tracking workflows.
• Support the Requirements Management Lead and senior Requirements Officers with customer engagement, feedback collection, and coordination across branches.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree and 12 years of related experience; Master's degree and 10 years; or PhD with 7 years, or 16 years w/o a degree or 14 years with Associates Degree
• Experience supporting intelligence requirements, collection management, RFI management, or production management in the IC or DoD.
• Understanding of the intelligence cycle and how requirements flow from customer intake to tasking, production, and dissemination.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to track many requirements at once under tight deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to work with technical experts and customers at all levels.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and SharePoint.
• US. citizenship required.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph required.

Bonus Points

• Experience with requirements and tasking systems such as COLISEUM, HOT-R, or similar IC/DoD tools.
• Familiarity with PIRs, EEIs, and the National Intelligence Priorities Framework (NIPF).
• Background in or exposure to DOMEX, digital forensics, biometrics/identity intelligence, multimedia exploitation, or technical exploitation.
• Experience with Appian or other low-code workflow platforms.
• Experience building dashboards or metrics (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Excel).

Why You'll Love It

• Mission that matters: your work directly supports U.S. national security decision-makers.
• A front-row seat: you'll work with every exploitation discipline on the program and see the whole mission come together.
• Elite team: work alongside some of the best technical exploitation and intelligence professionals in the IC.
• Room to grow: a clear path from Requirements Analyst to Senior Requirements Officer and Requirements Management Lead under Peraton's career framework.
• Competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.

Work location: 

• Bethesda, MD

$135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.