Senior IT & Business Consultant

Ares Enterprise is seeking a Senior IT & Business Consultant to support the full federal business development lifecycle—from opportunity identification and qualification through capture, solution development, proposal management, and transition to contract execution. This individual will serve as a trusted advisor and hands‑on contributor, combining technical expertise, business judgment, and strong writing skills to help Ares pursue and win federal IT opportunities.

The consultant will translate customer mission needs, acquisition requirements, and operational challenges into practical technical solutions, credible delivery approaches, and compelling proposals. This is a working consultant role, not solely an advisory or coordination position. The successful candidate must be comfortable analyzing requirements, developing solutions, writing proposal content, facilitating working sessions, and managing deliverables. The role requires close collaboration with company leadership, business development, technical teams, program managers, recruiting, pricing, and teaming partners.

• Business Development and Opportunity
  
  Qualification:
  
  Research and assess federal IT opportunities, customer missions, buying priorities, and competitive conditions. Analyze forecasts, requests for information, sources sought notices, and solicitations to determine strategic fit, capability alignment, resource needs, and pursuit risks. Develop opportunity assessments and recommendations that support informed bid/no‑bid decisions.
• Capture Strategy and Teaming:
  Help develop capture plans, customer engagement strategies, competitive positioning, win themes, and differentiators. Identify gaps in capabilities, past performance, staffing, and contract access; recommend approaches to address them through internal resources or teaming. Support partner discussions, workshare planning, and preparation for customer and industry engagements.
• IT Solution Development:
  Translate performance work statements, statements of work, statements of objectives, and evaluation criteria into integrated technical and management approaches. Develop solution concepts, architectures, service delivery models, workflows, implementation roadmaps, and transition strategies. Work with technical specialists to evaluate feasibility, dependencies, security, scalability, staffing, cost, and delivery risk.
• Proposal Planning, Management, and Writing:
  Develop proposal schedules, compliance matrices, annotated outlines, content assignments, and review plans. Lead or support kickoff meetings, solution workshops, status reviews, and color‑team reviews. Personally write and refine executive summaries, technical approaches, management and staffing plans, transition approaches, past performance narratives, and other response sections. Resolve review comments and help deliver complete, consistent, and compliant submissions.
• Staffing, Pricing, and Delivery Alignment:
  Collaborate with recruiting, program teams, and pricing personnel to develop labor mixes, staffing models, qualifications, levels of effort, and bases of estimate. Evaluate whether proposed resources and schedules support the solution and contractual requirements. Identify disconnects among the technical approach, staffing plan, price, and delivery assumptions before submission.
• Business Process Improvement and Knowledge Management:
  Improve repeatable processes for opportunity qualification, capture, solution development, proposal production, and contract handoff. Develop reusable templates, proposal content, capability summaries, and validated past performance proof points. Facilitate lessons learned and help transfer proposal commitments, assumptions, risks, and staffing plans to…