Sr. Federal Technical Recruiter

Position Overview

Graystone Group is exclusively partnered with an established government contractor seeking an experienced Sr. Federal Technical Recruiter to join its growing team. The company operates primarily as a prime contractor across its federal programs and is looking for a recruiter who can take ownership of technical recruiting efforts supporting current programs, contract growth, and new awards.

This is more than a traditional recruiter opening. Leadership is looking for someone who can initially come in as a strong hands-on producer, learn the organization and its federal programs, and ultimately be developed into the Director of Recruiting as the company continues to grow.

The ideal candidate understands the nuances of recruiting within the federal contracting environment, including cleared technical talent, government contract requirements, proposal and contingent hiring, and the urgency associated with staffing newly awarded programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle recruiting for technical and professional positions supporting federal government contracts.
• Recruit across areas such as cybersecurity, information technology, network engineering, cloud, systems engineering, software development, and other technical disciplines.
• Source and engage candidates holding Secret, Top Secret, TS/SCI, and other security clearances as required by individual programs.
• Partner directly with company leadership, program managers, hiring managers, and technical stakeholders to understand current and future staffing requirements.
• Develop targeted sourcing strategies for difficult-to-fill and highly specialized federal technical positions.
• Manage recruiting efforts associated with existing programs, new contract awards, recompetes, proposals, and contingent hiring requirements.
• Build and maintain pipelines of cleared and specialized technical talent ahead of anticipated program needs.
• Conduct candidate qualification calls covering technical experience, clearance eligibility/status, compensation, location, availability, and overall program fit.
• Manage candidates throughout the recruiting lifecycle from initial outreach through interviews, offer negotiation, acceptance, and onboarding.
• Maintain accurate recruiting activity and pipeline information within the company's ATS and recruiting systems.
• Help establish scalable recruiting processes, metrics, sourcing strategies, and best practices as the organization grows.
• Over time, take on increasing responsibility for the overall recruiting function, including recruiting strategy, process development, workforce planning, and potentially the development and management of an internal recruiting team.

Required Qualifications

• Prior experience recruiting within the Federal Government / Government Contracting environment.
• Strong experience recruiting technical professionals across IT, cybersecurity, engineering, infrastructure, or related disciplines.
• Experience recruiting candidates with active federal security clearances.
• Understanding of the federal contracting lifecycle and how recruiting supports prime contracts, proposals, new awards, recompetes, and program staffing requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to independently source and close difficult-to-find technical candidates.
• Experience partnering directly with hiring managers and senior leadership.
• Strong communication, organization, and candidate-management skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment where hiring priorities can change based on contract and customer requirements.
• Comfortable being a hands-on recruiter today while helping build the processes and infrastructure necessary to support future growth.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience recruiting across multiple federal agencies or DoD customers.
• Experience supporting both funded positions and contingent/proposal recruiting.
• Familiarity with sourcing cleared candidates through platforms such as ClearanceJobs, LinkedIn Recruiter, Dice, and other recruiting tools.
• Previous experience in a lead recruiter, recruiting manager, or recruiting team lead capacity.
• Experience helping build or improve an internal recruiting function within a growing government contractor.

Leadership Growth Opportunity

A major component of this opportunity is its long-term leadership trajectory . The company is not simply looking to add another recruiter. Leadership wants to identify someone who can become a key part of the organization, understand its programs and growth strategy, and gradually assume ownership of the recruiting function.

The expectation is for this individual to begin as a hands-on Federal Technical Recruiter and, based on performance and company growth, develop toward a Director of Recruiting position responsible for recruiting strategy, process, technology, metrics, workforce planning, and future team development.

For someone who has built a strong foundation in federal recruiting and is looking for an opportunity to eventually run the recruiting function rather than remain an individual contributor , this position offers a clear path to do so.

Work Arrangement

This position follows a hybrid schedule based out of Tysons, Virginia, with two days per week onsite and three days remote.