Lifecycle Acquisition Analyst - Senior

Apogee Engineering, LLC•Springfield, VA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Apogee is seeking a Senior Lifecycle Acquisition Analyst to support the Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy Program Executive Office at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The position provides full lifecycle acquisition management for complex government programs, including validating and refining requirements, developing procurement packages, and monitoring contract execution for compliance and mission success. The analyst may serve as the primary acquisition expert to the Program Manager. This is a full-time, on-site position at a contractor facility in Fort Belvoir, contingent upon contract award, with 10% travel.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship.
TS-SCI clearance and a Counter-Intelligence Polygraph completed within the last five years or within 90 days of hire.
Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, or an engineering-related field.
At least 12 years of senior-level experience with NGA, DoD, or other IC agency acquisition processes and procedures, particularly creating RFP documentation such as SOWs, SOOs, PWSs, and IGCEs and performing technical evaluations of proposals.
At least 12 years of senior-level IT program or project management experience.
At least 12 years of senior-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 six years of mid-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 12 years of senior-level experience providing long-term, direct acquisition and program management support services to NGA at the NSG Segment level.
At least 12 years of senior-level experience and practical application with NGA, IC, or DoD budgeting and financial tools and processes.
At least 12 years of senior-level experience with NGA processes and tools, including systems engineering, acquisition, configuration management, readiness, and security.

Responsibilities

Advise the government on planning, managing, and executing programs and projects.
Evaluate performance and execution risks and provide comprehensive recommendations to the Government.
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.
Support program management, business management, and budget execution reviews and provide feedback to the Government.
Support program finance activities, including assessing, 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 analysis, and corrective action plans.
Assist government representatives in generating the annual NGA/PM spend plan and POM, 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.
Support coordinated acquisition, budget, and operational planning to enable Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy capabilities.
Generate independent program-office cost estimates for future requirements, program activities, and acquisition processes.
Develop program-level cost models and documentation, and improve estimating methods through collecting, normalizing, and analyzing cost and technical data.
Assist with documentation for new acquisitions and follow-on contracts.
Collaborate and integrate work within the PEO and with partner organizations and customers, including other program offices, the sensor office, infrastructure team, SAM office, financial management offices, contracting officers, and Source.
Prepare and submit detailed minutes and notes for TEMs, reviews, and milestone events.
Conduct briefings, Technical Exchange Meetings, and events.
Assist with preparing and coordinating delivery orders, task orders, requirements documents, briefings, and performance statements, as applicable.
Participate in major program milestones, identify programmatic issues, and raise potential solutions.
Evaluate programmatic impacts of architectural direction and guidance and recommend paths forward.
Provide program-management-level awareness and tracking of NGA/PM SPIDs and security processes.
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 improvements to program-management processes and assist the government in implementing them.
Assist the government in responding to senior leadership requests.
Provide program management advice and recommendations on alternative courses of action and strategies for delivering Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy capabilities.
Maintain the PEO roadmap in accordance with NGA-prescribed policies.
Provide expertise and techniques for incorporating Agile program-management best practices into acquisition programs.
Assist government program managers with responses and input concerning funding from NGA, OUSD(I), DNI, and Congress.
Assist in writing and defending Overseas Contingency Operations Funds and PEO unfunded requirements.
Support the NGA/PM tasker process.
Analyze dormant commitments and Unliquidated Obligations, research discrepancies, recommend de-obligations, and maintain accurate Key Supporting Documents for audit readiness and compliance with audit mandates.