Senior Solutions Architect

Leidos’s Digital Modernization Sector’s Office of Technology is currently seeking an IT Solutions Architect with broad Information Technology experience supporting our portfolio of Army programs and captures.  The successful candidate will have been a lead technical architect or engineer supporting large IT enterprise organizations and have direct experience with capture and proposals for DoD customers - ideally the US Army. 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 the entire lifecycle of new business pursuits 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 Masters with 15+ years of prior relevant experience. Bachelors degree and additional years of prior relevant experience may be used in lieu of Masters. 
•    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
•    Direct experience supporting the US Army or related missions 
•    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 certification
 

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.