Senior Technical Recruiter - Cleared IC & Cyber Talent

Leidos; United States; Remote; USD 92,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to support our Cyber & Analytics Business Area within the Intelligence Community market in Columbia, MD. You will partner with program leadership and hiring managers to craft recruiting strategies for highly cleared technical professionals, including TS/SCI with Polygraph candidates.

The role requires proactive sourcing, strong relationship-building, and the ability to manage multiple requisitions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of recruiting/talent acquisition experience.
• Experience recruiting technical professionals within the Intelligence Community or DoD/National Security market.
• Experience sourcing TS/SCI with polygraphs, preferably within the Fort Meade market.
• Strong knowledge of full life cycle recruiting, including sourcing, screening, candidate assessment, offer negotiation, candidate engagement, and onboarding.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain networks and pipelines of highly qualified passive technical candidates.
• Proven success managing multiple requisitions, hiring managers, and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage full life cycle recruiting across multiple Intelligence Community programs, from intake and sourcing through offer, acceptance, and onboarding.
• Develop and execute targeted recruiting and sourcing strategies for highly cleared technical talent, including software engineering, cyber, AI/ML, systems engineering, DevOps, cloud, SIGINT, and related disciplines.
• Proactively identify and engage TS/SCI and polygraph-cleared candidates using ClearanceJobs, LinkedIn, referrals, networking, Boolean search, candidate databases, recruiting events, and other sourcing channels.
• Partner closely with Program Managers and hiring leaders to understand technical requirements, staffing priorities, contract needs, and talent-market challenges and translate them into actionable recruiting strategies.
• Build and maintain pipelines and long-term relationships with qualified passive candidates in the Fort Meade intelligence market.
• Manage multiple requisitions and hiring priorities in a fast-paced environment while providing timely pipeline updates, market intelligence, and recommendations to leadership.
• Support new business, capture, proposal, and program growth efforts by developing staffing strategies and identifying qualified cleared talent ahead of contract requirements.

Skills

Full life cycle recruiting

Sourcing & pipeline

Candidate assessment

Stakeholder management

Communication

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Workday

ClearanceJobs

LinkedIn Recruiter

CRM platforms

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to support our Cyber & Analytics Business Area within the Intelligence Community market in Columbia, MD. You will partner with program leadership and hiring managers to craft recruiting strategies for highly cleared technical professionals, including TS/SCI with Polygraph candidates.

The role requires proactive sourcing, strong relationship-building, and the ability to manage multiple requisitions in a fast-paced environment.