External Title Traceability & Integration Engineer

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking an experienced Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer within our BNATCS Architecture and Systems Engineering group to perform the integration, traceability, and baseline management of requirements across a large-scale federal program. As a key contributor on a multi-vendor systems integrator program, you will ensure requirements from the government customer, internal teams, subcontractors, and vendors are captured, harmonized, and maintained as a single coherent baseline — resolving conflicts, closing gaps, and maintaining the traceability thread from mission intent to allocated responsibility.

You will be part of a team responsible for system-of-systems integration, requirement traceability and integrity across the program, V&V support, and the development of program-wide standards and templates. This is a hands‑on senior engineering role — you will be expected to own assigned tasks, produce high‑quality artifacts, and operate independently, while providing advisory guidance to leadership and stakeholders when needed.

This position is on‑site in Herndon, VA.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform requirements decomposition and allocation across the integrated system architecture, mapping high‑level mission requirements to specific components — custom‑developed, COTS, GOTS, and third‑party vendor systems — with clear ownership and accountability
• Design and implement requirements schemas that establish the structural foundation for traceability across the program, ensuring consistent taxonomy, attribute definitions, and linkage conventions that support end‑to‑end traceability and audit readiness
• Understand and apply the relationship between requirements and enterprise architecture artifacts — including DoDAF views and diagrams — to ensure requirements are grounded in and traceable to the broader architectural context; contribute to the program's evolution toward a digital engineering ecosystem where requirements, architecture, and verification evidence are interconnected and model‑driven
• Establish and enforce requirements quality standards — completeness, correctness, consistency, testability, feasibility, and unambiguity — across all requirements authored by internal teams, subcontractors, and vendors
• Develop and maintain an integrated requirements baseline that harmonizes customer, derived, interface, and vendor/subcontractor requirements into a single authoritative source of truth; identify and resolve conflicts, gaps, overlaps, and ambiguities across organizational and vendor boundaries
• Build and maintain end‑to‑end bidirectional traceability — from mission needs through system requirements, subsystem allocations, design artifacts, test procedures, and verification evidence — ensuring coverage is complete, current, and audit‑ready at all lifecycle stages; maintain allocation matrices tracking ownership and compliance status across all contributors
• Define and manage interface requirements and interface control documents (ICDs), ensuring data exchanges, protocols, performance expectations, and behavioral contracts are fully specified, baselined, and enforced; proactively identify and drive resolution of integration issues, discrepancies, and gaps that could affect system coherence or compliance
• Conduct requirements impact analysis for proposed changes, evaluating cross‑system effects across multi‑vendor components and supporting Configuration Control Board (CCB) decisions with requirements‑level evidence; manage configuration control to ensure baselined requirements are change‑controlled, versioned, and synchronized with program CM processes
• Generate traceability metrics and reports — requirements coverage, allocation completeness, open TBDs/TBRs, change activity, and baseline health — for program leadership, government stakeholders, and engineering teams
• Review and assess vendor and subcontractor requirements artifacts — specifications, ICDs, compliance matrices — to ensure alignment with the integrated baseline and program standards; participate in architecture and design reviews (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR) and ensure requirements traceability artifacts and allocation…