Location: Hybrid (APG - Aberdeen, MD and Remote)
Travel %: Up to 25% / Compensation: 110-175k (DOE)
Summary
T2S Solutions is seeking to hire a
Project Lead - Acquisition Systems Engineering to provide integrated acquisition, systems engineering, program management, and lifecycle-management provide support for Department of War (DoW) and Army technology programs. This role will supports government-led efforts to plan, develop, acquire, field, sustain, modernize, and retire systems and capabilities.
The successful candidate will apply technical, analytical, and acquisition-management expertise to support requirements development, acquisition planning, market research, technical evaluations, cost and feasibility analyses, logistics planning, standardization, industrial-base assessments, and strategic technology planning. This position requires the ability to coordinate across technical, programmatic, contracting, logistics, and stakeholder communities while producing clear, decision-ready analyses and documentation.
Responsibilities Acquisition and Lifecycle Management Support - Support acquisition and lifecycle management activities from capability requirements development through sustainment and modernization.
- Assist with acquisition strategy and requirements planning, including development of acquisition strategy requirements and supporting packages.
- Develop and maintain Acquisition Requirements Packages (ARPs), Acquisition Plans (APs), market surveys, Independent Government Estimates (IGEs), Justification and Approval (J&A) documentation, and other acquisition-support artifacts.
- Support pre-award and post-award surveys, proposal evaluations, negotiations support, and Source Selection Evaluation Plan (SSEP) development and execution support.
- Conduct cost, cost-performance trade-off, affordability, and feasibility analyses to inform program and acquisition decisions.
- Support regulatory-compliance reviews and assist in aligning acquisition documentation with applicable DoW, Army, and organizational policies and procedures.
- Support operation and maintenance (O&M) planning and lifecycle sustainment activities.
- Assist government personnel with technical acquisition-management training and project-leadership training activities, as assigned.
Systems Engineering and Technical Analysis - Analyze technology concepts, conceptual designs, technical approaches, and system architectures for feasibility, performance, integration, lifecycle implications, and mission suitability.
- Support technical data reviews and engineering assessments throughout the system lifecycle.
- Assess technology-transfer opportunities, technology insertions, modernization approaches, and associated implementation risks.
- Conduct long-term reliability and maintainability (R&M) analyses and support development of sustainment-focused recommendations.
- Perform ergonomic and human-performance analyses to support user-centered system design and operational effectiveness.
- Support requirements determination, traceability, prioritization, and technical validation activities.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, constraints, and mitigation options for program leadership review.
Program and Project Leadership - Provide project-management support for complex technical and acquisition efforts, including schedule development, milestone tracking, risk management, stakeholder coordination, and status reporting.
- Develop executive-ready briefings, decision papers, reports, schedules, action trackers, and meeting materials.
- Support analysis of program mission, objectives, performance measures, resource needs, and execution progress.
- Conduct organizational performance assessments, special studies, and targeted analyses to identify improvement opportunities.
- Facilitate coordination among government program offices, contracting personnel, technical teams, logistics personnel, suppliers, and external stakeholders.
- Support development and execution of strategic plans for technology programs and activities.
Logistics, Industrial Base, and Supply Network Support - Support logistics planning, sustainment assessments, supply network solutions, and supplier-partnership initiatives.
- Assist with DoW and Army Industrial Base Management analyses, including supplier capability, supply-chain risk, production capacity, and resilience considerations.
- Support DoW and Army Standardization Program Management activities, including review of standards, interoperability considerations, and standardization opportunities.
- Assist with Item Unique Identification (IUID) planning, implementation support, data-quality considerations, and lifecycle accountability activities.
Required Qualifications - Active Top Secret Clearance
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, systems engineering, business, program management, logistics, acquisition management, or a related discipline. Relevant additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree where permitted by contract requirements.
- 5-10+ years of progressively responsible experience supporting technical projects, systems engineering, acquisition, lifecycle management, logistics, or program management.
- Demonstrated experience supporting federal or DoW/Army acquisition processes, documentation, and program-management activities.
- Working knowledge of acquisition planning, requirements development, market research, cost estimating, source-selection support, and contract pre-award/post-award processes.
- Ability to analyze technical, programmatic, cost, schedule, logistics, and performance information and present findings clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Experience developing professional written products, including acquisition documents, technical analyses, briefings, reports, plans, and decision-support materials.
- Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Proficiency with common productivity and collaboration tools, including Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to work independently while effectively coordinating with multidisciplinary teams.
Preferred Qualifications - Master's degree in systems engineering, engineering management, acquisition management, business administration, logistics, or a related field.
- Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA), Defense Acquisition Credential Program, Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP), or comparable professional certification.
- Experience supporting Army or DoW program executive offices, program management offices, research and development organizations, lifecycle management commands, or major defense acquisition programs.
- Experience with technology transition, technology insertion, modernization, prototyping, or product-support planning.
- Knowledge of DoW and Army standardization, industrial-base, supply-chain, reliability, maintainability, and IUID programs.
- Experience supporting technical data reviews, engineering change processes, logistics product-data activities, or human-systems integration.
- Experience conducting organizational assessments, strategic planning, special studies, or mission-analysis efforts.
Core Competencies - Acquisition planning and lifecycle management
- Systems engineering and technical assessment
- Program and project leadership
- Requirements development and management
- Cost, schedule, performance, and risk analysis
- Technical documentation and briefing development
- Logistics and sustainment planning
- Reliability, maintainability, and human-performance analysis
- Supply-chain, supplier, and industrial-base analysis
- Strategic planning and organizational assessment
- Stakeholder engagement and cross-functional coordination
