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This role defines, elicits, validates, and manages solution-level functional, technical, operational, security, and performance requirements across complex, interdependent systems, carrying those requirements from initial discovery through architecture, design, testing, deployment, and operations.\nThis is a hands-on requirements role. You'll be expected to run real elicitation sessions and produce real traceable requirements artifacts, not just coordinate meetings.\nThis is a hybrid role based out of Washington, DC. Candidates must be U.S. citizens.\nKey Responsibilities\n1. Requirements Elicitation & Analysis\nPlan and facilitate discovery sessions, interviews, technical working groups, stakeholder reviews, and design reviews.\nTranslate business and mission needs into complete, testable, unambiguous functional, technical, operational, security, data, interface, and performance requirements.\n2. 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