Senior Technical Recruiting Specialist

Maximus is currently seeking a Senior Technical Recruiting Specialist.

The Senior Technical Recruiter partners closely with executive leadership, hiring managers, and recruiting teams to drive strategic workforce planning and deliver high‑impact technical talent across federal civilian, health, and defense markets. This role leads advanced sourcing and recruiting efforts for funded and proposal requisitions, specializing in passive candidate engagement within cleared and technical talent markets. Responsibilities include building and managing scalable talent pipelines, executing targeted search campaigns, mentoring recruiting teams, optimizing sourcing tools and methodologies, and ensuring regulatory compliance (including OFCCP). The Senior Technical Recruiting Specialist operates as a trusted advisor, managing complex recruitment initiatives end‑to‑end while continuously improving hiring strategies to meet evolving organizational goals.

This position is remote.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Partner with recruiters, hiring managers, and leadership to understand the requirements of open positions and build accurate candidate profiles. Work with leaders to determine hiring needs and develop a hiring plan.

• Collaborate with leadership to develop and execute advanced staffing and sourcing strategies; source and recruit professional level candidates for both funded and proposal requisitions and build quality pipelines of passive and active talent to support corporate and all federal civilian, health and defense market Segments.

• Build sourcing strategies, specifically targeted to passive candidates.

• Build and track high-quality pipelines of potential candidates for a variety of technical roles.

• Understand the cleared and technical talent markets and be knowledgeable in the industry to successfully run targeted search campaigns.

• Assist with evaluation, selection, and implementation of new sourcing tools and procedures.

• Lead training and assist in disseminating best practices to the ecruiting team.

• Manage multiple sourcing projects from conception to completion, ensuring that all priorities and goals are achieved.

• Works with senior management to develop recruitment, sourcing, and talent pipeline strategies.

• Collaborates with leadership team to establish goals, objectives, and hiring priorities.

• Perform a variety of professional and administrative recruiting functions in support of identifying, interviewing, evaluating, and selecting qualified candidates to effectively meet the organization's staffing requirements.

• Identify candidates from numerous sources, efficiently use our applicant tracking system, write advertisements, screen, and qualify candidates, and perform reference checks.

• Actively track recruiting activities and other metrics to ensure compliance with relevant hiring regulations and laws, including OFCCP.

Minimum Requirements

'- Bachelor's Degree

• 5-7 years of experience

• At least five (5) years of technical or sourcing recruitment experience

• Experienced with more complex or higher-level recruitment projects

• Experience recruiting or sourcing for Federal agencies preferred

• Experience recruiting or sourcing for Executive IT positions

• Experience sourcing on job boards, ATS, networking sites, sourcing platforms.

Also, using unique strategies to recruit passive candidates

• Extensive experience with sourcing strategies within technical and government contracting space to include but not limited to Open-source intelligence, x-ray searching, Boolean searching, internet searching, and social media searching

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Minimum Salary

$95,000

Maximum Salary

$105,000