Analytics Specialist - Capability Lifecycle Engineering
Location:
Norfolk, VA (On-site at NATO HQ SACT)
Employment Type:
Full-time, contractor support (contingent upon contract award & customer approval)
Security Clearance:
Active/eligible for NATO or National SECRET (or higher)
Openings: 1 openingTarget Base Salary Range: $70,000 - $103,000
Travel:
Occasional mission travel as required.
Role Overview
Support capability lifecycle engineering by producing analytics and decision-support products that provide visibility into requirements status, maturity, risk, and alignment. You will integrate engineering/requirements data from authoritative sources, build dashboards and metrics, and support configuration and change control analytics within secure, governed environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and maintain analytics that provide visibility into requirements status, maturity, and risk.
- Support requirements capture, decomposition, and structuring for complex systems and capabilities.
- Develop traceability and linkage analyses between requirements, architectures, and capability elements.
- Integrate requirements/engineering data from multiple sources to support cross-system reporting.
- Support configuration management and change control analytics (baselines, versioning, impact analysis).
- Define and maintain engineering performance metrics and data quality checks.
- Build dashboards, reports, and visualizations for engineering governance and technical reviews.
- Collaborate with multinational stakeholders to translate engineering data into actionable insights.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years supporting requirements engineering, systems analysis, or engineering analytics in complex environments.
- Expertise in requirements lifecycle management (capture, decomposition, traceability, validation, verification) using enterprise tools.
- Experience developing analytics/metrics/visualizations for engineering decision support.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (or equivalent professional experience).
- Experience integrating engineering and requirements data from multiple authoritative sources.
- Experience supporting configuration management/change control and SDLC activities.
- Minimum NATO or National SECRET clearance for the contract duration; English proficiency equivalent to STANAG 6001 SLP 3333.
- Citizen of a NATO member nation; valid NATO nation passport with no travel restrictions.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have
- Experience with BI tools and data platforms used in defence/security engineering organizations.
- Familiarity with NATO/DoD standards and technical governance processes.
- Experience building automated reporting pipelines for engineering metrics.
How to Apply
Email your resume to [email protected] with the subject line: "RFP-ACT-SACT-26-02 – LC44 – Analytics Specialist - Capability Lifecycle (Engineering)" or respond to this job posting via the included web application.Ironclad Defense Works is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
