Systems Integrator - Procurement Lead

Arcfield is a leading provider of full lifecycle, mission-focused systems engineering and integration capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. The company has more than 60 years of proven experience providing advanced engineering and analysis, IT and C5ISR capabilities to support our nation's most critical national security missions. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA and with 16 offices around the world, Arcfield employs approximately 1,200 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals who put our customers' missions first, helping them solve their most complex challenges through innovations in modeling, simulation and analysis, digital transformation and C5ISR. Visit arcfield.com for more details.

In this customer-facing, team-oriented position will support the Sponsor's organization responsible for Business and Outreach. This includes providing acquisition guidance and strategy that will support organizational needs. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Oversees purchases of materials, equipment, products, parts, services, and supplies necessary for on-going operations.
• Conduct best practices for procurements, to include Full Time Equivalent (FTE) resources and aggregation recommendations for planning purposes.
• Leads aspects of strategic sourcing, which may include, proposal evaluation, price/cost analysis, contract negotiation, vendor management, and contract administration.
• Provide guidance for use of diverse payment methods.
• Improve payment procedures to minimize commercial fraud detection.
• Account for diverse network connections that transit across secure platforms in support of managed internet capabilities outside of Sponsor spaces, leveraging new vendors.
• Identify and establish relationships with managed internet providers for network diversity.
• Document procurement authority and delegation for Sponsor organization.
• Develop procurement aggregation standards for each entity through risk management and lessons learned.
• Understand various types of acquisitions for hardware, software, prototyping and proofs of concept
• Initiate vendor, role, and IP address de-confliction.
• Assist in developing statements of work(s) for various systems, technical services and/or technical expertise, which can include system architecture, performance, monitoring, data management, security, and operations.
• Track the status of requisitions, contracts, and orders.

Required Qualifications

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI with a polygraph
• BS 12-15, MS 10-13, PhD 8-10 (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Information Systems Engineering, Business, or a scientific, or technical discipline.
• Ability to fully coordinate master project schedules.
• Ability to coordinate information flow occurs between all programs and organizational managers.
• Ability to establish functional and technical specifications and standards, solve hardware and software interface problems, define input/output parameters, and ensure integration of the entire system or subsystem.
• Provides a total systems perspective including a technical understanding of relationships, dependencies, and requirements of hardware and software components.

Desired Qualifications

• Ability to test and evaluate hardware and software to determine efficiency, reliability, and compatibility with existing systems.
• Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
• Ability to work in a dynamic and challenging environment.
• Ability to coordinate with engineers, systems analysts, programmers, technicians, scientist and top-level managers in the design, testing, and evaluation of systems.

EEO

Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.