Sr. Solutions Architect at Leidos

Description

Are you ready to make an impact and join a creative, forward-thinking team? We’re looking for innovators and forward-thinkers to help us do great things.

 
Leidos is seeking a Sr. Solution Architect with broad expertise in servers, networks, storage, cyber, and data center facilities to join our Defense Enclave Services (DES) team at Ft. Meade, MD.

  
PROGRAM/POSITION SUMMARY:
 The DES program supports a highly demanding mission and requires support from top technical and management talent to migrate common IT services for over twenty DoD agencies under a common platform. You will play a key role in directing the technical teams throughout the engineering lifecycle (identification and assessment, discovery, design, and implementation planning) in support of building a world-class Single Service Provider for the Department of Defense.  This role will set standards and ensure consistent execution across multiple technical engineering teams. A successful candidate will lead a cross-functional technical teams to support the discovery analysis and design activities to migrate common IT services from over twenty large-scale DoD agencies into DoDNet. A successful candidate will be technically well-rounded, producing quality work with special attention to the right details.

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: 
 • Must possess an ACTIVE SECRET security clearance (US Citizenship required)

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

•  Serve as the senior migration architect, leading the design and implementation planning to consolidate DoD agencies’ services across infrastructure, network, identity, hosting, support, and end user capabilities.
•  Provide hands-on engineering and technical leadership for overall migration assessment, planning, architecture, design, and implementation tasks.
•  Set standards, enhance architectures, and provide technical guidance to ensure consistent delivery and quality of service across multiple government agencies.
•  Oversee and coordinate technical migration planning activities while monitoring and managing risks.
•  Brief senior DoD / Government management on active and proposed plans, technical issues, and architectural tradeoffs. 
•  Work with the project teams to identify risks, dependencies, and propose mitigation activities to deliver migrations on schedule and within budget. 
•  Work with team leadership to develop, enhance, and implement standardized migration processes and procedures.
•  Work across team members to document migration lessons learned for continual improvement of future migration activities.
•  Drive automation capabilities that increase engineering velocity and improved service delivery.
• Assessing the systems architecture currently in place and working with technical staff to recommend solutions to improve it

• Continually researching current and emerging technologies and proposing changes where needed.

• Identify and manage technical risks with respect to infrastructure migrations and timelines

• Identify opportunities to improve business process and drive operational efficiency

• Communicate with stakeholders proactively throughout the project to gather inputs, keep them updated, and coordinate with other teams

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

•  Master's degree and 15-20 years of relevant work experience or Doctorate with 13-16 years of prior relevant experience, additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
•  Experience planning and executing large/complex IT migrations and consolidations.
•  Experience with discovery, event management and ITSM tools.
•  In-depth understanding of cloud and network topologies, both transport and IP.
•  This position requires extensive writing and the selected candidate MUST have superb writing skills.
• Leadership experience in a cross-functional or matrix organization
• Must be a self starter, strong leader, and have the ability to work independently with little supervision.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
 •Familiarization of DISA, DOD regulations, and directives.

DISADES

External Referral Eligible

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.