Senior Legal Counsel- Government Contracts

Jobot; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobot is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to lead government contracts strategy in Tysons, VA. This on-site, permanent role offers direct collaboration with senior executives on complex regulatory, contractual, and business matters across the federal landscape.

The successful candidate will bring extensive in-house government contracting experience, robust knowledge of FAR/DFARS, and the ability to guide high-stakes negotiations while shaping governance and risk management at the executive level.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of sophisticated legal experience.
• In-house experience with government contractor or similarly regulated organization.
• Deep knowledge of federal government contracting.
• Strong FAR/DFARS experience.
• Experience advising senior executives and/or boards and governance.

Responsibilities

• Advise senior executives and business leaders on complex legal and regulatory matters.
• Provide strategic counsel regarding federal government contracting requirements.
• Negotiate and manage sophisticated prime, subcontract, teaming, JV, vendor, and customer agreements.
• Advise on FAR, DFARS, DCAA, CAS, ITAR/EAR, CMMC, and related regulatory requirements.
• Identify and mitigate legal, contractual, regulatory, and operational risk.
• Support government audits, investigations, disputes, claims, and compliance matters.
• Partner with contracts, finance, compliance, security, operations, and business-development teams.
• Advise on corporate governance and strategic business initiatives.
• Support transactions and other complex corporate matters.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to C-suite and senior leadership.
• Depending on the eventual structure, provide leadership, mentorship, and oversight to attorneys and other legal professionals.

Skills

Government contracting

Regulatory compliance

Executive leadership

Risk management

Strategic business judgment

Job description

Senior Legal Counsel- Government Contracts

$200000 - $300000 per year | Tysons, VA | On-site | Permanent

Legal Leadership + Federal Contracts + Compliance

A bit about us:

Our client is a large, established professional services and technology organization with a significant federal government customer base.

The company supports a range of government missions through technology, consulting, engineering, analytics, cybersecurity, and mission-support services. Its work takes place within highly regulated environments where contractual, regulatory, security, compliance, and business considerations frequently intersect.

Why join us?

Strategic Legal Impact

Work directly with senior business leaders on sophisticated legal, regulatory, contractual, and business matters.

Complex + Interesting Work

Apply deep government-contracting expertise across a combination of federal contracts, technology, compliance, risk, corporate, and strategic matters.

Executive Visibility

The role has the potential to operate at a senior level with meaningful exposure to executive leadership.

Leadership Opportunity

The organization is evaluating the next phase of its senior legal structure, creating an opportunity for an experienced legal leader to have a meaningful voice in that evolution.

Mission-Driven Environment

Support complex federal missions across highly regulated and technically sophisticated environments.

Scale + Resources

Join an established organization with the infrastructure, resources, and breadth of a major federal technology and professional-services company.

Job Details

Our client is a large, established professional services and technology organization with a significant federal government customer base. The company operates across highly regulated environments supporting government missions through technology, engineering, consulting, cybersecurity, and mission-support services.

The organization is interested in connecting with experienced attorneys who bring a strong combination of government contracting, regulatory compliance, commercial contracting, executive counseling, and legal leadership experience.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to serve as a strategic legal advisor to senior executives and business leaders while helping navigate sophisticated contractual, regulatory, compliance, and business issues.

Potential Responsibilities:

• Advise senior executives and business leaders on complex legal and regulatory matters.
• Provide strategic counsel regarding federal government contracting requirements.
• Negotiate and manage sophisticated prime, subcontract, teaming, JV, vendor, and customer agreements.
• Advise on FAR, DFARS, DCAA, CAS, ITAR/EAR, CMMC, and related regulatory requirements.
• Identify and mitigate legal, contractual, regulatory, and operational risk.
• Support government audits, investigations, disputes, claims, and compliance matters.
• Partner with contracts, finance, compliance, security, operations, and business-development teams.
• Advise on corporate governance and strategic business initiatives.
• Support transactions and other complex corporate matters.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to C-suite and senior leadership.
• Depending on the eventual structure, provide leadership, mentorship, and oversight to attorneys and other legal professionals.

Ideal Background:

• 15+ years of sophisticated legal experience.
• Significant in-house experience, preferably with a government contractor, defense, intelligence, technology, engineering, or similarly regulated organization.
• Deep knowledge of federal government contracting.
• Strong FAR/DFARS experience.
• Experience with complex prime and subcontract agreements.
• Experience advising senior executives and/or boards.
• Demonstrated legal leadership experience.
• Strong business judgment and ability to operate strategically.
• Experience with regulatory compliance, risk management, investigations, audits, disputes, governance, and/or M&A.
• Active Top Secret clearance or significant experience operating within classified/national-security environments is highly relevant.

Location: Northern Virginia

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