IT Systems 4&5 Specialist - Verification & Validation
About the job
- Hands-on IT systems verification and validation (IV&V) or independent quality-assurance experience is required.
- A public-sector, higher-education, or large-enterprise systems implementation background is required.
- Candidates must be comfortable working as a 1099 or project-based collaborator and traveling as needed for client on-sites.
- Plan and execute independent verification and validation activities for public-agency IT systems and implementations.
- Assess solution readiness, requirements traceability, test coverage, and go-live risk.
- Produce IV&V findings, risk registers, and client-ready recommendations.
- Advise on IT advisory and assessment workstreams adjacent to IV&V, including architecture review and implementation oversight.
- Contribute IV&V qualifications and past-performance narrative to AlphaGov proposals when permission is granted.
- Statewide or multi-agency IV&V or PMO oversight experience.
- Familiarity with IEEE or ISO IV&V practices, or equivalent public-agency quality-assurance frameworks.
- Prior Arizona or Southwest state-agency IT consulting experience.
About the company
AlphaHire provides a workforce intelligence platform for capital-intensive industries such as construction, data centers, energy, and private equity. It uses signals from hundreds of sources across many labor markets to deliver current, decision-ready data on labor availability, compensation trends, and hiring competition, not as a recruiting service. The platform offers structured products—Labor Availability Assessments, Workforce Due Diligence for M&A, Expansion Readiness, and Workforce Risk Monitoring—to support capital decisions. Its goal is to help executives and investors reduce operational risk and improve project cost outcomes through better workforce planning and risk visibility.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
N/A
Founded
2018
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- September 2026 data center tracker flags 140-plus competing projects and constrained electricians.
- AlphaHire says live compensation intelligence runs on trailing 90-day offer activity.
- The 2026 research lab ties federal-award data to near-term demand spikes.
What critics are saying
- AlphaHire depends on public data, and OEWS lags live market moves by twelve months.
- Competitors copy market dashboards fast; Bloomberg, Lightcast, and LinkedIn can bundle alternatives.
- If data-center capex freezes in 2027, AlphaHire's premium labor-intelligence category shrinks fast.
What makes AlphaHire unique
- Founded 2018, AlphaHire sells decision-grade workforce intelligence, not recruiting or staffing.
- Its 2026 Observatory monitors 180 labor markets and 500-plus sources continuously.
- Labor Availability Assessment and Early Warning System frame Go, Conditional, No-Go capital decisions.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- 401(k) Company Match
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Performance Bonus