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# Senior Operational Readiness & Requirements Lead

- **Company:** Apogee, Inc.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Systems Engineering, Discrete Event Simulation, Formal Verification, Systems Analysis, Requirements Management, Requirements Traceability, Verification and Validation (Software), Model Validation
- **Published:** November 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/15_7923711f2

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Operations Research, Systems Engineering, Business Analysis, Public Administration, Emergency Management, Industrial Engineering, or related discipline.
 * Minimum 7 years of experience in requirements analysis, business process analysis, operational planning, systems analysis, verification and validation, or scenario development.
 * Demonstrated experience facilitating stakeholder interviews, workshops, and requirements-gathering sessions.
 * Experience documenting complex operational workflows, business rules, decision processes, constraints, and exceptions.
 * Experience validating analytical models, simulations, technology solutions, or operational processes.
 * Strong analytical, technical writing, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
 * Ability to obtain and maintain client-required suitability requirements, including Public Trust eligibility if required.

Preferred Qualifications:

 * CBAP, PMI-PBA, INCOSE, Lean Six Sigma, Agile, or comparable professional certification.
 * Experience supporting federal readiness, mobilization, workforce operations, emergency management, continuity, or mission-support programs.
 * Experience with discrete-event simulation, operations research, scenario modeling, or analytical model validation.
 * Experience designing tabletop exercises, operational stress tests, demonstrations, or after-action reviews.
 * Familiarity with requirements traceability matrices (RTM), formal verification and validation methodologies, and systems engineering practices.
 * Experience supporting government stakeholders in complex, mission-critical environments.
 * Security Requirement: Ability to obtain and maintain client-required suitability clearance or Public Trust determination.
 * Location Requirement: Candidates must be able to support periodic onsite workshops and meetings in Virginia.

## Description

Apogee is seeking an experienced Senior Operational Readiness & Requirements Lead to support the development of a federal operational-readiness simulation and decision-support solution. This role will lead requirements discovery, operational workflow validation, scenario development, assumption management, and stakeholder coordination to ensure the simulation accurately reflects real-world mission processes and operational environments.

The successful candidate will serve as the critical connection between federal operational stakeholders, subject-matter experts, and technical simulation-development teams. The individual will translate complex operational requirements into actionable models by capturing processes, constraints, staffing considerations, decision points, exceptions, and mission scenarios.
Key Responsibilities

 * Lead requirements discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and operational analysis workshops.
 * Elicit, document, analyze, prioritize, and validate functional and operational requirements.
 * Develop process maps, operational workflows, use cases, decision logic, and requirements traceability documentation.
 * Identify operational entities, events, resources, dependencies, constraints, routing logic, exceptions, rework processes, and decision points.
 * Document assumptions, data limitations, policy considerations, risks, and unresolved decisions.
 * Develop and maintain operational scenarios, including:

 * Baseline operating conditions
 * Surge scenarios
 * Degraded operations
 * Disruption events
 * Policy and stress-test scenarios

Coordinate subject-matter-expert reviews to validate workflows, assumptions, parameters, and simulation outcomes.

Establish operational validation criteria and acceptance measures.

Support verification and validation (V&V) activities for simulation models and analytical outputs.

Analyze simulation results to ensure operational accuracy, relevance, and mission alignment.

Support demonstrations, user acceptance activities, scenario rehearsals, and after-action reviews.

Maintain requirements documentation, assumptions logs, decision records, validation findings, and corrective-action tracking.

Contribute to user guides, training materials, scenario catalogs, and knowledge-transfer documentation