Mission Liaison / Analyst Lead (Senior)

DecisionPoint seeks a Mission Liaison / Analyst Lead to lead mission-owner engagement, requirements decomposition, backlog readiness, and cross-team traceability for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This senior role serves as a primary connection between Government mission owners, users, business analysts, software delivery teams, trainers, and technical stakeholders. 

The Mission Liaison / Analyst Lead translates mission needs into actionable requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, training objectives, and release communications. The position also owns the User Training Plan and user collaboration and feedback process, ensuring that mission-owner input remains traceable through design, development, testing, training, acceptance, and release. 

This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred. 

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Mission Liaison / Analyst Lead will: 

• Lead engagement with Government mission owners, users, product stakeholders, and technical delivery teams. 

• Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and manage functional and mission requirements. 

• Decompose mission needs into clear, measurable, testable, and traceable requirements. 

• Develop and refine user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, workflows, and related functional documentation. 

• Assess backlog readiness and work with delivery teams to prepare requirements for sprint planning and implementation. 

• Maintain end-to-end traceability among mission needs, requirements, user stories, design decisions, acceptance criteria, test results, training materials, and released capabilities. 

• Coordinate mission-owner input for Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), requirements packages, interface considerations, and solution-development activities. 

• Own and maintain the User Training Plan in coordination with Government representatives, technical subject matter experts, trainers, and release teams. 

• Coordinate the development and review of user guides, job aids, release notes, training materials, and other user-facing documentation. 

• Establish and manage structured user collaboration, feedback, and validation processes throughout the software-development lifecycle. 

• Facilitate requirements workshops, backlog-refinement sessions, user reviews, demonstrations, and feedback sessions. 

• Coordinate user acceptance criteria and support user acceptance, operational validation, and release-readiness activities. 

• Translate user feedback and operational lessons learned into prioritized requirements, backlog updates, and improvement recommendations. 

• Coordinate release communications with Government mission owners, users, training personnel, and technical teams. 

• Identify requirements gaps, conflicting stakeholder needs, dependencies, and traceability risks and drive them to resolution. 

• Support Agile planning, sprint reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and release-planning activities. 

• Ensure mission requirements and user needs remain aligned with system architecture, integration requirements, scalability objectives, and operational priorities. 

• Prepare briefings, status updates, decision materials, meeting minutes, and other program documentation. 

• Support continuous improvement of requirements-management, stakeholder-engagement, training, and user-feedback practices.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications 

Candidates must possess all the following: 

• An active Secret clearance or higher. 

• A bachelor’s degree in information systems, business, or a related field, or an equivalent permitted by the applicable labor category. 

• At least eight years of relevant professional experience. 

• Experience performing requirements analysis and decomposing complex mission or business needs into actionable requirements. 

• Experience developing and managing user stories, acceptance criteria, and requirements traceability. 

• Experience coordinating requirements and deliverables across mission stakeholders, users, analysts, developers, testers, trainers, and other technical teams. 

• A current business analysis or Agile certification. 

• Ability to lead stakeholder-engagement sessions, requirements workshops, backlog-refinement discussions, and user-feedback activities. 

• Ability to produce clear functional requirements, workflows, training inputs, user documentation, release communications, and decision-support materials. 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical information for mission and operational audiences. 

• Strong organizational and analytical skills with the ability to manage competing priorities, dependencies, and cross-team actions. 

Preferred Qualifications 

The following qualifications are preferred: 

• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software-development, modernization, or systems-engineering programs. 

• Experience supporting Government mission owners or serving as a liaison between operational users and technical delivery teams. 

• Experience developing or coordinating CONOPS inputs, user training plans, user guides, release notes, and other operational documentation. 

• Experience working in Agile, DevSecOps, or hybrid federal software-delivery environments. 

• Experience supporting user acceptance testing, demonstrations, release readiness, and operational validation. 

• Familiarity with requirements-management and Agile collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, or comparable platforms. 

• Familiarity with requirements traceability matrices, process modeling, workflow analysis, and backlog-management practices. 

• Knowledge of secure software-development and systems-engineering practices applicable to federal or DoD environments. 

• Relevant certifications such as Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe certification, or equivalent credentials.