Senior Technical Recruiter

Senior Technical Recruiter

Location: Fairfax, VA (4 days onsite)

Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to support technical and corporate hiring across our client's growing federal government contracting organization. This person will own full-cycle recruiting, partner closely with hiring managers and company leadership, and develop pipelines for difficult-to-fill technical and cleared positions.

The strongest candidate will have substantial federal government contracting recruiting experience, understand the cleared talent market, and be comfortable recruiting across cybersecurity, software, cloud, infrastructure, engineering, and other highly technical disciplines. This is a visible recruiting role, so strong communication skills, professionalism, and the ability to work confidently with senior leadership are especially important.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the full recruiting lifecycle from intake through sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer negotiation, and hire.
• Recruit for technical positions including cybersecurity engineers, software developers, cloud engineers/architects, DevSecOps professionals, systems engineers, network engineers, data professionals, solution architects, project/program managers, and related positions.
• Source cleared professionals across Secret, Top Secret, TS/SCI, and potentially polygraph-level requirements.
• Develop proactive pipelines for difficult-to-fill and recurring technical positions.
• Use LinkedIn Recruiter, ClearanceJobs, Dice, Indeed, Boolean/X-Ray search, direct outreach, referrals, networking, and other sourcing methods.
• Partner closely with hiring managers, program leadership, executives, and technical SMEs to understand requirements and develop recruiting strategies.
• Support proposal, capture, contingent, and pre-award recruiting efforts, including identification of Key Personnel and candidates aligned to federal labor categories.
• Manage a high-volume requisition workload while maintaining candidate quality and strong communication with stakeholders.
• Provide market intelligence regarding candidate availability, compensation, competitive hiring conditions, and recruiting challenges.
• Maintain accurate ATS activity, recruiting metrics, pipeline reporting, and compliance with federal contractor/OFCCP recruiting practices.
• Help improve recruiting processes, sourcing strategies, candidate experience, and overall recruiting efficiency.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive full-cycle recruiting experience.
• Strong experience recruiting within the federal government contracting environment ; ideally 5+ years.
• Significant experience recruiting technical professionals across IT, cybersecurity, software, cloud, infrastructure, engineering, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience sourcing and recruiting cleared candidates .
• Strong direct sourcing and passive candidate recruiting skills.
• Experience managing difficult-to-fill positions and multiple concurrent requisitions.
• Ability to communicate effectively with hiring managers, executives, technical leaders, and candidates.
• Strong understanding of federal contracting recruiting practices and labor-category-driven hiring.
• Experience using modern ATS/CRM systems and major recruiting platforms.
• Must be able to work onsite in Fairfax Monday through Thursday, with Friday remote.

Highly Preferred

• Recruiting experience across Secret, TS/SCI, CI Poly, and/or Full Scope Polygraph talent.
• Proposal, capture, recompete, incumbent capture, or contingent recruiting experience.
• Experience building candidate pipelines before contract award.
• Experience working with Capture, Business Development, Pricing, and Proposal teams.
• Experience recruiting against federal labor categories and Statements of Work.
• High-volume recruiting experience, ideally managing approximately 20+ active requirements.
• Experience with JazzHR, Greenhouse, Workday, iCIMS, or comparable ATS platforms.
• Recruiting analytics, KPI dashboards, compensation benchmarking, or process-improvement experience.
• AIRS, CIR, SHRM, PHR/SPHR, or similar recruiting/HR credentials.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled recruiting and sourcing tools.