Government Contracts Associate General Counsel

Government Contracts Associate General Counsel

The Opportunity:
Are you passionate about combining your federal procurement law expertise with big picture business thinking to empower innovation, drive critical missions, and deliver enduring growth and value? At Booz Allen, you’ll join a team of experienced professionals motivated to excel and realize values-driven change for our clients, colleagues, and communities. We bring bold thinking to complex challenges across analytics and artificial intelligence, cyber, digital solutions, and, engineering, with industries ranging from defense and national security to health, energy to international development.

As a member of our Government Markets Practice Area, you’ll help propel our forward-thinking and purpose-driven team as we advance our clients’ missions. You’ll serve as a attorney providing support and leveraging experience with federal procurement transactions at all stages, as well as regulatory compliance, as part of a broader legal department and the team of government markets attorneys supporting the federal business across civil, defense, and National Security Sectors. You’ll support as the lead Govt Markets point of contact for Markets within our National Security Sector, and work on a wide range of complex transactional issues at the prime and subcontract levels, and provide legal advice and counsel for Market leaders and their teams. You’ll anticipate business needs and develop practical solutions with agility and action. You’ll establish trusted partnerships across the company and collaborate with fellow members of the Legal, Ethics & Compliance team to protect and advance the company while navigating the complex, multifaceted, and often novel legal and compliance risks we face today. Guided by Booz Allen’s purpose and values, together we’ll anticipate and proactively prepare for the issues we’ll encounter tomorrow. This position is located in McLean, VA.

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You Have:

• 8+ years of experience practicing law in a law firm, corporate, or government environment, including supporting commercial and technology matters

• Experience with government contracts law, including FAR, DFARS, federal procurement statutes and regulations, and bid protest jurisprudence

• Experience leading or assisting with prime contract and subcontract negotiations, pre-award support, and post-award counseling

• Experience partnering closely with senior business leaders to develop comprehensive solutions to problems

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to evaluate risks and root causes, and to aid in designing and implementing practical mitigation strategies or action plans

• Ability to listen actively and ensure that the right questions are being asked and answered and translate legalese or regulations into succinct, clear, and workable business solutions

• Ability to execute against clear goals, priorities, and success metrics or KPIs, and manage against program plans

• TS/SCI clearance

• J.D. degree

• Active bar admission with any U.S. state bar

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with commercial and non-FAR-based contracting, including federal or non-federal, or commercial

• Experience with government contracting, including in a professional services firm

• Experience with government contracts regulatory framework, especially rules and considerations for Post-Government

• Experience advising on information security statutes, regulations, and compliance frameworks, including FISMA, DFARS, and NIST

• Knowledge of employment and competition, antitrust, organizational, and personal conflicts of interest, or gifts and antikickback

• Ability to work under pressure in a dynamic environment

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eli