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. Key Responsibilities • 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 Requirements Must-have Qualifications: • Bachelor’s 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. Preferred Qualifications: • 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. Benefits For any questions (OR) to apply, please contact us at [email protected].