Senior Operational Readiness & Requirements Lead

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.

• 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

• Bachelors 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.

• 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.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC