Senior Operational Readiness & Requirements Lead

About the role

Apogee is seeking an experienced Senior Operational Readiness & Requirements Lead to support the development of a federal operational-readiness simulation and decision-support solution. The role leads requirements discovery, operational workflow validation, scenario development, assumption management and stakeholder coordination so that the simulation accurately reflects real-world mission processes. It connects federal operational stakeholders and subject-matter experts with technical simulation-development teams.

Key responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews and operational analysis workshops, and 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 and decision points, and document assumptions, data limitations, policy considerations, risks and unresolved decisions.
• Develop and maintain operational scenarios: baseline conditions, surge scenarios, degraded operations, disruption events, and policy and stress-test scenarios.
• Coordinate subject-matter-expert reviews, establish validation criteria and acceptance measures, and support verification and validation of simulation models and analytical outputs.
• Analyze simulation results, support demonstrations, user acceptance, scenario rehearsals and after-action reviews, and maintain requirements, assumption and decision records.
• Contribute to user guides, training materials, scenario catalogs and knowledge-transfer documentation.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Operations Research, Systems Engineering, Business Analysis, Public Administration, Emergency Management, Industrial Engineering or a 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, and documenting complex workflows, business rules, decision processes, constraints and exceptions.
• Experience validating analytical models, simulations, technology solutions or operational processes.
• Ability to obtain and maintain client-required suitability requirements, including Public Trust eligibility if required.
• Location: candidates must be able to support periodic onsite workshops and meetings in Virginia.

Preferred qualifications

• Certifications such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, INCOSE, Lean Six Sigma, Agile or comparable.
• Experience supporting federal readiness, mobilization, workforce operations, emergency management, continuity or mission-support programs.
• Experience with discrete-event simulation, scenario modeling, tabletop exercises, stress tests and requirements traceability matrices.