Description

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. We use a wide range of capabilities in Digital Modernization (https://www.leidos.com/capabilities/digital-modernization) , Mission Software Systems (https://www.leidos.com/capabilities/mission-software-systems) , and enabling technologies includingArtificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (https://www.leidos.com/enabling-technologies/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning) to support our customers’ mission in advancing biomedical research and protecting public health. Our team’s focus is ensuring our health customers have the right solutions to keep pace with an ever-evolving public health landscape and prevent the next public health crisis. To explore and learn more, click here (https://www.leidos.com/markets/health) !

Preference is for this person to be local to the DC Metro area to be able to be in meetings in Reston, VA or Gaithersburg, MD.

The Health and Civil Sector Office of Technology at Leidos currently has an opening for a Federal Health Division Lead Solution Architect to lead growth opportunities in our Health Solutions Business. This is an exciting opportunity to use industry experience to deliver innovative solutions that help our customers transform and modernize their Federal Health missions. The qualified candidate will function as the technical and strategic lead, working with a broader cross-functional team to generate requirements through ongoing customer interactions, and then develop and assist in delivering solutions based on our customers current and future needs in the Federal Health market.

In addition, the Federal Health Division Lead Solution Architect will work as an interface between programs, customers and Leidos senior management, ensuring Leidos management understanding of customer domain, pain points, and strategy to drive business development and technology insertion initiatives, in order to ensure success of high-value capture and on-contract growth opportunities.

Primary Responsibilities

Responsibilities include engaging in customer shaping efforts, requirements gathering, and proposal support activities, leveraging understanding of industry trends and Leidos capabilities for product development and system integration within the Federal Health domain:

• Will have 2-3 direct reports

• Conduct market research and product comparisons for Federal health processes and tools, tracking industry trends and assessing technologies for fit within customer tool sets

• Contribute to customer engagements; analyzing customer needs and align them with industry trends and Leidos solution offerings.

• Participate in opportunity shaping efforts to drive internal and external customer understanding of technical discriminators and assist in injecting Leidos technology differentiators into customer operations

• Partner with Business Development staff to understand and participate in the development of new business strategy assessing current and future skills and technology needs

• Organizes project and task work-loads and selects individuals most qualified for assignments on specific projects.

• Directs technical organization to ensure progress according to technical specifications, campaign strategies, and business objectives.

• Develop solutions that are highly innovative and achieved through research and integration of best practices

• Participate in the identification of new technologies and lead investment projects focused on using those technologies to develop repeatable solutions that increase Leidos differentiation. Determine relevancy and customer impact of new healthcare focused technologies

• Support customer and stakeholder meetings and technical discussions

• Leading Internal Research and Development (IRAD) activities in the Federal Health domain to include Project Manager/Principal Investigator (PM/PI) functions for our most complex IRAD efforts. This includes managing cost and schedule to achieve the outcomes set forth in the beginning of the year.

• Act as a subject matter expert in the translation of solution requirements into design documentation

• Provide direction on a variety of design decisions including solution evaluation and selection, buy vs. build vs. reuse questions, early-phase project estimates, platform selection, and technical designs

Basic Qualifications

• Requires a Master’s Degree in a technical discipline with 15 years of prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree with 13 years or prior relevant experience

• Experienced professional in contract performance with demonstrated technical lead and customer relationship building in the performance and growth of contracts. Capable of generating on-contract-growth through insertion of innovation and technology on existing programs.

• Experienced solution architect, sales engineer, and/or technical volume lead on captures and proposals.

• Requires US Citizenship

• Proven ability to reach out to Industry, Academia, and government customers synchronizing efforts across multiple lines of research, development and funding to enhance our solutions offerings and close gaps in offerings yielding competitive technical solutions.

• Experience in health system definition, design, integration and delivery

• Knowledgeable in program management methodology and techniques; performance evaluation and change management principles

• Demonstrated ability in the areas of personnel planning, project reviews, scheduling, and budget control

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas

• Experience with writing content for white papers, RFI responses, proposals and customer briefings

• Experience developing and reviewing BOM and BOEs for complex solutions

• Experience with reviewing proposal contents including draft reviews, red team reviews, risk reviews, etc.

• Implementation experience with one or more of the following: AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP

• Experience implementing DevSecOps in a cloud environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Operational experience in the Federal Health domain

• Working knowledge of DHA/VA healthcare systems

• Previous experience managing complex solution development efforts / contracts

• Demonstrated ability to work across internal functions and with outside entities to facilitate successful product completion/delivery

• Experience implementing solutions using Salesforce, ServiceNow, Pega and Microsoft Power platform

• Experience with Data Analytics and modern data platforms

• Experience using modern digital engineering practices to include MBSE knowledge on development or integration programs

Original Posting Date:

2024-07-10

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:

Pay Range $144,300.00 - $260,850.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.

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REQNUMBER: R-00139098

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.