IT Solutions Architect

Leidos’s Digital Modernization Sector’s Office of Technology is currently seeking an IT Solutions Architect with 12+ years of broad Information Technology experience.  

Position Summary

The successful candidate will have been a proposal sub-section lead technical engineer for multiple proposal teams for complex and competitive proposals. The SA will have familiarity with End User Services, Network Services, Data Center and Cloud Infrastructure, App Migration, and Cyber Security with expertise in at least one of the areas. This is an exciting opportunity to use your technical expertise and leadership experience in support of our US Federal Information Technology customers.

Primary Responsibilities
•Serve as a technical architect across new business pursuits lifecycle and within an integrated growth team, including proposal, capture, and business development activities.
•Support end-to-end thought leadership across proposal responses that include elements such as technical solution, partners, staffing, implementation schedule, and BOE.
•Lead solution development across one of the following core areas: Cloud Infrastructure and App Migration; Infrastructure and App Managed Services; Cyber Security; Application Development.
•Develop notional, logical, and physical solutions diagram and integration of solution into customer’s environment in a manner that fully meets all technical and management requirements.
•Provide technical writing capabilities in the development of technical artifacts, white papers, statements of work, briefings, and proposals, etc.
•Support customer meetings to understand customer requirements and provide solution presentations to the customer.
•Lead responses to customer RFI’s and RFP’s
•Work with teaming partners to develop technical solutions, integration of teaming partners’ capabilities, and pricing strategies, etc.
•Work with engineering staff to extract information in a structured process to create winning, cost acceptable technical solutions for proposals.

Basic Qualifications
•Requires BS degree with 12+ years of prior relevant experience. 
•5+ years of experience leading technical teams 
•Excellent written and oral communication capability with the ability to communicate with executive leadership.
•Experience performing IT systems engineering. 
•Experience contributing major subsections to IT proposals and startup upon award.
•Experience organizing and establishing projects demonstrating complete understanding of project management functions.
•Familiarity with IT Operations to include multi-tier service desk and SLA management.
•Capable of obtaining a DoD Top Secret clearance

Desired Qualifications
•Commercial and federal IT engineering leadership experience 
•Experience estimating technical and operations costs and planning delivery of new IT projects.  
•Experienced proposing and injecting new technology advancements into ongoing operations.
•Experience identifying and assessing business impacts to proposed changes to a largely technical solution or enterprise operation.
•ITIL foundations …