Lifecycle Acquisition Analyst-SME

Apogee Engineering, LLC•Springfield, VA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Apogee is seeking a Lifecycle Acquisition Analyst - Subject Matter Expert to support the Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy Program Executive Office at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The role provides strategic acquisition and program management support across a complex portfolio, including long-term acquisition planning, coordination with senior agency executives, management of cross-functional dependencies, and alignment of procurement actions with agency strategic, financial, and architectural objectives. This is a full-time, on-site position at a government facility in Fort Belvoir, contingent upon contract award. The position requires U.S. citizenship and a TS-SCI clearance with a Counter-Intelligence Polygraph obtained within the last five years or within 90 days of hire. Travel is 10%.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship.
TS-SCI clearance and Counter-Intelligence Polygraph obtained within the last five years or within 90 days of hire.
Certification as a Program/Project Management Professional, DAWIA certification in PM (Advanced) or E&TM (Practitioner), or Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (SA) certification.
Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, computer science, or an engineering-related field.
Industry-leading expertise relevant to the field and compliance with GSA standards.
At least 18 years of expert-level experience with NGA, DoD, or other Intelligence Community acquisition processes and procedures, particularly creating RFP documentation such as SOWs, SOOs, PWSs, and IGCEs, and performing technical proposal evaluations.
At least 18 years of expert-level IT program/project management experience.
At least 18 years of expert-level experience applying systems engineering processes, requirements analysis, interface definition, and detailed implementation planning for large complex systems or enterprises and enterprise-wide interoperability.
At least 12 years of senior-level experience and practical application with NGA, Intelligence Community, or DoD budgeting and financial tools and processes.

Nice To Haves

Program/Project Management Professional certification, DAWIA certification in PM or E&TM, or Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (SA) certification.
Master's degree or higher.
At least 18 years of expert-level experience with NGA processes and tools, including systems engineering, acquisition, configuration management, readiness, and security.
At least 18 years of expert-level experience and practical application with NGA budgeting and financial processes and tools.
At least 18 years of expert-level experience providing long-term, direct acquisition and program-management support services to NGA at the NSG Segment level.
At least 18 years of expert-level experience generating MIP and NIP base and OCO POM submissions, funding requests, and justifications at the budget-program level or above for Congress and DoD or ODNI oversight authorities.

Responsibilities

Advise the government on planning, managing, and executing programs and projects; evaluate performance and execution risks and recommend actions.
Support designated efforts throughout their lifecycle, from concept through deactivation and disposal.
Create program documents, plans, and artifacts; review existing requirements and documentation for accuracy, consistency, and compliance.
Facilitate meetings and perform secretariat duties; prepare detailed minutes and notes for TEMs, reviews, and milestone events.
Support program management, business management, budget execution reviews, and program-finance briefings and activities.
Analyze and coordinate program- and division-level financial management plans and reports, including POM inputs, fiscal-year spend plans, variance analyses, and corrective action plans.
Assist government representatives in producing the annual NGA/PM spend plan and POM, including short-, mid-, and long-term goals and deliverables.
Assess the realism of contractor cost estimates submitted in response to Government Requests for Change or impact-assessment requests.
Coordinate acquisition, budget, and operational planning to support Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy capabilities.
Develop independent program-office cost estimates, program-level cost models, and supporting documentation; improve estimating methods through collecting, normalizing, and analyzing cost and technical data.
Support documentation for new acquisitions and follow-on contracts.
Collaborate and integrate work across the PEO and with partner and customer organizations, including program offices, sensor and infrastructure teams, the SAM office, financial management offices, contracting officers, and Source.
Conduct briefings, Technical Exchange Meetings, and other events; assist with delivery orders, task orders, requirements documents, briefings, and performance statements.
Participate in major program milestones, identify and raise programmatic issues, and recommend solutions.
Evaluate programmatic impacts of architectural direction and guidance and recommend paths forward.
Track NGA/PM SPIDs and security processes at the program-management level.
Draft and present PEO and project presentations to external organizations and customers.
Monitor designated Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy operational systems; support resolution of operational issues and track test events and software deliveries.
Recommend and help implement improvements to program-management processes.
Assist the government and PEO leadership in responding to senior-leadership requests and support the NGA/PM tasker process.
Provide program-management advice and alternative courses of action and strategies for delivering Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy capabilities.
Maintain the PEO roadmap in accordance with NGA policies and apply best-practice Agile program-management methods to acquisition programs.
Assist government PMs with funding responses and inputs involving NGA, OUSD(I), DNI, and Congress; support writing and defending Overseas Contingency Operations funds and PEO unfunded requirements.
Provide support across the PEO for high-priority work and surge needs, and maintain awareness of PEO activities and strategy improvement.
Create and manage Major System Acquisition documentation and reports, brief MSA information to internal and external leadership, and coordinate the MSA with stakeholders.