Senior Legal Counsel- Government Contracts
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Senior Legal Counsel - Government Contracts
Location: Tysons, VA, US
Job ID: 6937059
Date Posted: 09-30-2026
Job Description
Experience: Entry Level
Salary: $200,000 - $300,000 per year
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
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.
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