Lifecycle Acquisition Analyst-SME

Apogee Engineering•Fort Belvoir, VA

2d•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 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 strategic, financial, and architectural objectives. This is a full-time, on-site position at a government facility and is contingent upon contract award.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship.
TS-SCI clearance and a Counter-Intelligence Polygraph completed 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 certification as a Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (SA).
Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, computer science, or an engineering-related field.
Industry leader with exceptional expertise relevant to the field, compliant with GSA standards.
At least 18 years of expert-level experience with NGA, DoD, or other Intelligence Community agency acquisition processes and procedures, especially creating RFP documentation such as SOWs, SOOs, PWSs, and IGCEs and performing technical evaluations of proposals.
At least 18 years of expert-level experience in IT program/project management.
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, IC, 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 Military Intelligence Program and National Intelligence Program base and Overseas Contingency Operations Program Objective Memorandum submissions, funding requests, and justifications at the budget program level or above to 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 provide recommendations.
Support designated efforts throughout their lifecycle, from concept through deactivation and disposal.
Create program documents, plans, and related artifacts, and review existing requirements and artifacts for accuracy, consistency, and compliance.
Facilitate meetings and perform secretariat duties; prepare detailed minutes and notes for Technical Exchange Meetings, reviews, and milestone events.
Support program management, business management, budget execution reviews, and program finance activities, including coordinating, scheduling, and executing management briefings.
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 with the annual NGA/PM spend plan and POM, including articulating 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.
Generate independent program office cost estimates and program-level cost models and documentation; improve estimating methods through collection, normalization, and analysis of cost and technical data.
Assist with documentation for new acquisitions and follow-on contracts.
Collaborate and integrate work within the PEO and with partner and customer organizations, including program offices, the sensor office, infrastructure team, SAM office, financial management offices, contracting officers, and Source.
Conduct briefings, Technical Exchange Meetings, and events; assist with preparation and coordination of delivery orders, task orders, requirements documents, briefings, and performance statements.
Participate in major program milestones, identify programmatic issues, and recommend solutions; evaluate architectural impacts and recommend paths forward.
Track NGA/PM SPIDs and security processes at the program management level.
Assist with drafting and presenting 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 related software deliveries.
Recommend and help implement improvements to program management processes.
Assist the government in responding to senior leadership requests and provide program management advice, alternative courses of action, and strategies for delivering capabilities.
Maintain the PEO roadmap in accordance with NGA-prescribed policies and incorporate Agile program management best practices into acquisition programs.
Assist government PMs with funding matters involving NGA, OUSD(I), DNI, and Congress; help write and defend Overseas Contingency Operations Funds and PEO unfunded requirements.
Provide support across the PEO for high-priority work and surge needs, maintain awareness of PEO activities, and assist with PEO strategy improvement.
Support PEO leadership responses to senior leadership requests and support the NGA/PM tasker process.
Create and manage Major System Acquisition documentation and reports, brief MSA information to internal and external leadership, and coordinate the MSA with stakeholders.