Senior Solutions Engineer (2009191)

The IT Solutions Engineer leads the development of technical solutions for NORC’s projects in the Social Sciences. As a full member of a proposal team, s/he becomes familiar with the client’s complete set of requirements and brings to bear the collective knowledge and skills of the company’s IT experts along with his/her own to recommend effective solutions to differentiate NORC’s offer from those of the competition.  Upon the commencement of work post award, the Solutions Engineer provides architectural guidance during the implementation of the solution. 

Responsibilities include:  Maintaining awareness of current and pending proposal efforts.  Reading, in their entireties, the corresponding solicitations.  Briefing IT teams on the big picture and details of the client’s project.  Leading the development of a detailed estimate of IT-related costs and cooperating with the proposal manager on the overall budget for the project.  Leading the writing of IT-related components of the proposal’s technical volume.  Assisting with editing of the entire technical volume to ensure consistency across both IT and non-IT sections.  Leading the maintenance of reusable IT-related text and a history of estimated and actual costs.  Assisting the proposal manager in understanding the technical solution and the roles of each proposed IT participant whose time is included in the cost estimate.  Providing the proposal team with up to date IT capabilities and options.  Assist with forecasting IT resource requirements based on active projects, completed proposals, and pending proposals with greater than 50% win probabilities.