Requirements Management Lead

Requirements Management Lead
Senior Level | Westminster, CO | $100,000 - $150,000 | Clearance: Secret with ability to obtain SAP

Lead enterprise requirements management activities across a portfolio of aerospace and defense programs, ensuring technical rigor, traceability, and alignment between customer objectives and engineering execution. Drive disciplined requirements decomposition, baseline management, customer engagement, and verification planning while establishing best practices that support successful program delivery and long-term technical integrity.
A Day in the Life - What you'll do

• Lead the decomposition of customer, mission, and system-level requirements into clear, actionable, and verifiable subsystem and component specifications.
  
• Establish and maintain enterprise requirements management processes that ensure consistency across multiple programs and lifecycle phases.
  
• Manage complex requirements baselines, ensuring proper configuration control, traceability, and alignment with evolving customer needs.
  
• Conduct impact assessments and technical analyses for customer-driven requirement changes, identifying effects on cost, schedule, performance, risk, and system architecture.
  
• Serve as the primary interface between engineering teams and customers regarding requirements interpretation, clarification, negotiation, and implementation.
  
• Provide professional and technically grounded recommendations when customer requests introduce unnecessary scope growth, increased risk, or technical conflicts.
  
• Develop, maintain, and govern Requirements Verification Matrices (RVMs) and Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs) supporting program execution and compliance.
  
• Ensure end-to-end traceability between customer requirements, system architecture, subsystem allocations, verification methods, and delivered capabilities.
  
• Collaborate with systems engineers, design engineers, software teams, test organizations, and program leadership to maintain requirements integrity throughout development.
  
• Lead Functional Configuration Audits (FCAs) and support formal technical reviews to verify products meet documented requirements and performance expectations.
  
• Identify requirements gaps, conflicts, ambiguities, and verification challenges early in the program lifecycle to reduce technical and schedule risk.
  
• Mentor engineers and program teams on requirements development, traceability, verification planning, and configuration management best practices.
  
• Support proposal efforts, architecture development, design reviews, test planning, and customer milestone events by providing requirements management expertise.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or another STEM discipline from an accredited institution.
  
• 10+ years of experience in Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, or Technical Program Engineering supporting complex aerospace, defense, or advanced technology programs.
  
• Extensive experience leading requirements decomposition from high-level customer needs through subsystem and component-level specifications.
  
• Demonstrated experience managing large and complex requirements baselines throughout the engineering lifecycle.
  
• Extensive experience using Jama Connect for requirements management, traceability, configuration control, and lifecycle management.
  
• Experience conducting requirements impact assessments associated with customer-driven changes, technical modifications, and evolving mission needs.
  
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with customers, engineering teams, and executive stakeholders regarding technical requirements and program impacts.
  
• Experience professionally negotiating requirements and protecting program scope, technical integrity, and contractual boundaries.
  
• Experience developing and maintaining Requirements Verification Matrices (RVMs) and Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs).
  
• Experience planning, conducting, or supporting Functional Configuration Audits (FCAs) and formal verification activities.
  
• Strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle processes including requirements management, verification, validation, configuration management, and risk management.
  
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams within highly collaborative engineering environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Cameo Systems Modeler to support requirements allocation, architecture development, and traceability activities.
  
• Expert-level knowledge of requirements engineering methodologies and industry best practices.
  
• Experience supporting aerospace, space, missile defense, autonomous systems, or other highly complex defense programs.
  
• Experience integrating requirements management workflows with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) environments.
  
• Knowledge of SysML, digital engineering methodologies, and model-centric development practices.
  
• Experience supporting customer technical reviews, milestone reviews, verification events, and formal audits.
  
• Experience implementing enterprise requirements management processes across multiple programs or business units.
  
• Experience supporting Department of Defense acquisition programs and associated engineering review processes.
  
• Master's degree in Systems Engineering, Engineering Management, or another relevant technical discipline.
  
• INCOSE certifications or advanced training in Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, or Digital Engineering disciplines.

Who is Caribou Thunder?

Caribou Thunder is a HUBZone-certified small business providing advanced technical and engineering services to the U.S. Department of War and its mission partners.

35+ states and 20+ countries. We've delivered trusted solutions for over two decades - strengthening national readiness across missions on land, undersea, in the air, and throughout LEO, MEO, GEO, and deep space.
Why Caribou Thunder? TEAM THUNDER - Mission Focused. Delivery Proven. Ready to Serve.

Employee Advocacy
Mission Proven
Global Reach
Skilled Teams
Modern Tools
Empowering Culture

Our engineers and innovators ensure capability from sea floor to space frontier - delivering on time, maintaining compliance, and performing with precision in high-consequence environments.

We specialize in Engineering Services, Cybersecurity, Software Development, Modeling & Simulation, Digital Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence - disciplines powering the nation's most complex technical missions.
Employee Advocacy + Benefits

Our people are the heart of Caribou Thunder. We invest in their growth, flexibility, and well-being - knowing their success drives ours.

Benefits include:

• Premium Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
  
• 401(k) with 6% Company Match
  
• Flexible PTO & Work Schedule
  
• Education & Certification Reimbursement
  
• Support for Military Leave
  
• Work-Life Balance & Traditional Family Values

Your future, your flexibility, your well-being - we invest in you. Apply and let's connect.