• Ensure that requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods. • Translate high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lower level detailed implementation requirements. • Establish and coordinate development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development. • Design interfaces and bring system elements together so they work as a whole. • Assess performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures. • Customer liaison and support for business development activities and to understand and shape requirements. • Participate in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts. • Contribute in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation. • Generate system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures. • Review test plans/procedures and ensure they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participate in the testing process to validate requirements. • Modify existing databases and database management systems or direct programmers and analysts to make changes. • Write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system or direct others in coding descriptions. • Work as part of a project team to coordinate database development and determine project scope and limitations. • Review project requests describing database users' needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish project.