Agile Requirements Systems Engineer at Peraton
Fort Meade, MD
$176,000–$282,000from the description
Jun 28, 2026
Fort Meade, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits within an Intelligence Community engineering program at Fort Meade, supporting multiple software development product teams by building and refining a unified request, requirements, and prioritization framework. Day-to-day work involves coordinating backlogs across teams, keeping Jira and GitLab aligned with higher-level planning tools, and contributing to acquisition reviews, program reporting, and budget tracking. It suits a senior systems engineer with deep Agile experience and an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
Senior level · 15+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $127,040 (middle half $99,690–$161,310). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role title is 'Agile Requirements Systems Engineer' — it sits at the intersection of systems engineering, requirements management, and Agile process work rather than pure software development or pure business analysis, making the SOC classification a genuine judgment call. 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) was chosen as the primary code because the core work is deriving, prioritizing, and managing requirements across software product teams; 15-1299 is noted as an alternative given the systems engineering framing.
The experience threshold is stated as 15 years of systems engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree (or 19 years with a high school diploma/GED, or 13 years with a Master's/PhD). The minimum of 15 years is used for the overall years minimum. The degree requirement is marked None because the JD explicitly accepts equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
A TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is a hard gate ('Position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph').
Skills listed under 'Individual Capabilities/Experience Desired' — IC industry/mission domain experience, meeting facilitation, and coordinating multiple team backlogs — are preferred, not required. These are process/soft-skill items rather than named technologies and are therefore not emitted as skills per extraction rules.
The posting specifies 1880 hours of support per year (a standard full-time government contract year) and on-site work at a customer location at Fort Meade, MD.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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