VP, Chief Engineer, Defense Systems Sector at Leidos

Description

The Leidos Corporate Office of Technology has an opening for a Vice President, Chief Engineer (CE) for the Defense Systems Sector, located in Reston, VA or Huntsville, AL.

As a leading provider of Defense Solutions, the Leidos Defense Systems Sector delivers solutions across a range of critical areas including space payloads/sensors, autonomous surface vessels, undersea warfare, RF sensors and signal processing, airborne ISR systems, hypersonics, cruise missiles and strike systems, integrated air defense solutions, and reverse engineering of foreign military systems. Our team delivers disruptive approaches and resilient, scaled, solutions at speed across these domains leveraging our capabilities in integrated systems, rapid prototyping, signal processing, mission software, cyber, materials, and digital engineering.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Sector Chief Engineer is a Vice President and core member of the Defense Systems Sector leadership team and the Office of Technology with the following primary responsibilities:

• Define and manage the overall systems engineering, model-based systems engineering, reliability engineering, and digital engineering efforts across the Sector
• Define, optimize, and execute rigorous systems engineering tools, processes, and resources in all Sector Business Areas – and drive technical innovation into these areas
• Ensure proper engineering discipline, rigor, reporting, and focus in Sector solutions, and support planning for new business opportunities
• Actively participate in the definition and implementation of the long-term engineering strategy aligned to the Sector and Corporate Technology Strategies, and Sector and Corporate goals 
• Provide hardware and software engineering to support production and manufacturing, logistics, maintenance, and sustainment (LMS) in defense environments
• Support Sector Manufacturing Leads with appropriate engineering processes and procedures
• Actively participate in the Capture Process to include writing and reviewing proposal content including engineering solutions, labor estimates, material estimates, risks, and engineering process
• Manage and execute program and solution reviews throughout the business lifecycle, ensuring adherence to engineering processes and proactively identifying and mitigating risks
• Provide engineering resource and talent planning
• Develop and mentor a set of mid to senior level engineering staff to include providing career guidance and professional growth opportunities for high potential employees
• Collaborate with Sector Management, Office of Technology (OOT)/Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Growth, and Line Leadership to execute our strategies and to further Sector business goals
• Collaborate with the CTO to further Leidos technical discrimination and growth goals with speed, scale, and security
• Collaborate with Growth and client-facing technical teams to understand customer needs, provide technical insights, and ensure alignment between technical solutions and customer/market expectations

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Prior technical roles within similar organizations with growing duties and responsibilities including experience leading large engineering teams, multi-disciplinary engineering teams, or integrated product teams
• A recognized expert in the engineering field with a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technology field as well as 20+ years of related engineering experience on large acquisition programs, large hardware and software systems delivery programs
• Experience providing engineering leadership on Defense PORs or in large defense contractor engineering organizations
• Significant experience supporting capture activities to include chairing/participating in Gate Reviews, writing specific sections of proposals, providing preliminary technical guidance for solutions, reviewing or developing basis of estimates (BOEs), and evaluating and mitigating solution and BOE risks
• Experience in developing, enforcing, and improving engineering policy, standards, best practices, and management
• Management and oversight over tailored system engineering processes and tools to include requirements management, baseline management, risk management, configuration management, schedule management, verification and validation, and reporting
• Ability to build a strong team that provides engineering leadership while growing the greater engineering talent and practices across a larger organization through influence, inspiration, and mentoring
• Strong oral and written communication skills, along with public speaking skills
• Ability to identify, mentor, lead, manage, and promote talent
• Ability to travel 25% of the time
• Top Secret clearance is required with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in a Science, Engineering, or Technology field
• Experience in driving innovation in the system engineering process and tools in areas like Model-Based System Engineering, Digital Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
• Familiarity and use of standard program management tools such as Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), Earned Value Management System (EVMS), etc.
• Experience with policy formation, performance management, and best practices in the Defense industry
• Strategy development

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.