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Job description: We are seeking a contractor to consolidate and formalize requirements for a complex, software-intensive system. Requirements currently exist across documents, Jira stories, test artifacts, and subject-matter-expert knowledge. This role will organize those inputs into a clear, testable, and traceable requirements baseline in IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next (DOORS NG). Key Responsibilities

• Inventory and assess existing requirement sources, including specifications, Jira stories, architecture and interface documents, test cases, and stakeholder knowledge.
• Facilitate working sessions with engineers, operators, testers, and other subject-matter experts to clarify intent and resolve gaps or conflicts.
• Convert informal and inconsistent inputs into clear, concise, testable, and implementation-independent requirements using established systems engineering practices.
• Identify duplicates, ambiguities, contradictions, assumptions, obsolete content, and open decisions requiring stakeholder resolution.
• Load and structure the approved requirements in DOORS Next using the organization's established configuration and processes.
• Establish bidirectional traceability among requirements and source artifacts.
• Create concise process guidance and provide knowledge transfer to internal staff. Expected Deliverables
• Requirements source inventory, gap assessment, and prioritized work plan.
• Consolidated, reviewed, and baselined requirement modules in DOORS Next, with source provenance and open issues identified.
• Traceability and quality reports showing coverage, gaps, and duplicates.
• Requirements management guidance and knowledge-transfer materials. Required Qualifications
• Demonstrated systems engineering and requirements engineering experience with complex, software-intensive systems.
• Hands-on experience eliciting, analyzing, decomposing, writing, reviewing, baselining, and managing requirements.
• Experience using

IBM DOORS

Next or a comparable formal requirements management tool.

• Experience establishing traceability across requirements, design, delivery work items, and test evidence.
• Strong facilitation, technical writing, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work independently, bring structure to ambiguous information, and deliver incrementally in a collaborative environment. Preferred Qualifications
• Experience analyzing source code to identify undocumented system behavior and develop candidate requirements.
• Experience with Jira, Agile delivery practices, and lifecycle traceability.
• Experience with model-based systems engineering, architecture modeling, or verification and validation.
• Experience using automation, static analysis, or AI-assisted techniques to improve requirements discovery or quality.
• Experience in utility, energy-market, or another high-availability operational environment. Measures of Success
• Priority requirements are consolidated, reviewed, traceable, and maintained in an agreed DOORS Next structure.
• Requirements meet agreed quality criteria and clearly identify ownership, status, source, rationale, and verification method.
• Stakeholders have reliable requirements baseline and a repeatable process for maintaining it.

Pay:

$50.00 - $60.00 per hour Application Question(s): Do you have experience with the system DOORS?

Location:

Carmel, IN 46082 (Required)

Work Location:

Hybrid remote in Carmel, IN 46082