Government Contracts Associate General Counsel

About the role

Are you passionate about combining your 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, and 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 an attorney providing support and leveraging experience with 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 government business across Civil, Defense, and National Security Sectors. You’ll support as the lead Government Markets point of contact for the Health market within our Civil Sector. This will encompass a wide range of complex transactional issues at the prime and subcontract levels, and involve providing 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 and Compliance team to protect and advance the company while navigating the complex, multifaceted, and often novel legal and compliance risks we face today.

This position is located in McLean, VA. Due to the nature of work performed within this facility, U.S. citizenship is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead or assist with prime contract and subcontract negotiations, pre-award support, and post-award counseling
• Partner closely with senior business leaders to develop comprehensive solutions to problems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate risks and root causes, and aid in designing and implementing practical mitigation strategies or action plans
• Listen actively, ensure the right questions are being asked and answered, and translate legalese or regulations into succinct, clear, and workable business solutions
• Execute against clear goals, priorities, and success metrics or KPIs, and manage against program plans
• Serve as the lead Government Markets point of contact for the Health market within the Civil Sector, addressing a wide range of complex transactional issues at the prime and subcontract levels
• Provide legal advice and counsel for Market leaders and their teams

Requirements

• 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
• J.D. degree
• Active bar admission with any U.S. state bar

Skills

Nice if you have:

• Experience with commercial and non-FAR-based contracting, including federal or non-federal, or commercial
• Experience with state or local procurement law, including state statutes, regulations, processes, bidding, and negotiations with state or local governments
• Experience with government contracting, including in a professional services firm
• Experience with software development or modernizing legacy or enterprise systems for government contracts
• Experience advising on product or solution-oriented sales
• Experience with government contracts regulatory framework, especially rules and considerations for Post-Government
• Experience advising on information security and data safeguarding statutes, regulations, and compliance frameworks across civilian agencies
• 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

Benefits

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
• Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care
• Recognition awards program acknowledging 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 eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.

Pay

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $162,800.00 to $303,000.00 (annualized USD).

Schedule

This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Work Model:

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.