Principal Solutions Architect

Company: Leidos
Location: Chantilly
Posted on: January 12, 2021

Job Description:

Job Description:The National Solutions Operation at Leidos is focused on providing mission focused solutions and support for primarily three Intelligence community customer agencies. The operation has an opening for a Principal Solutions Architect to work in our Chantilly, VA office. This opportunity will support new business pursuits and surge support to existing programs by providing innovative solutions to complex technical challenges. Leidos is seeking motivated, customer focused technologist who can bring together solutions which are relevant to the customer mission as well as innovative and discriminating. We value your creativity and looking for team players who can work collaboratively to bring together the best solutions. We are a team of mission minded technologists that work closely with the business divisions and business development teams, to meet with customers to understand their challenges and needs, and develop technical solutions. These solutions should consider commercial industry trends, best practices, emerging methodologies, customer mission realities, and affordability.The ideal candidate has a solid technical foundation, is customer focused, has experience putting together end to end solutions for pursuits, comfortable with ambiguity, brings a proven track record of successful program executions and capture efforts, and is driven to grow the business with technical excellence in all arenas. You must be an effective communicator, a strong collaborator across a broad spectrum of stakeholders, and able to lead a diverse and dispersed team of professionals.Primary ResponsibilitiesServe as Lead Solution Architect for major captures and pursuitsSupport customer meetings and demo's and capability briefs in concert with the business development team.Lead and author Request for Information (RFI's) and white papers Support capture efforts as needed to author technical sections of the RFP, as well support generation of Basis of Estimate (BOE's) and BOE justification descriptions.Provide Operation and Division level expertise aligned to Leidos Technical Core Competencies (Digital Modernization & Mission Software Systems.Develop and mentor Associate Solution Architects Provide surge support to programs focused on complex technology issuesSupport the building of technology strategy within the Operation Review and assess vendor technology solutionsRequired Education, Skills, and Experience:Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, IT, Computer Science or related field with 12 years experience.Minimum 12 years experience performing in technical/engineering roles with proven success of delivering solutions to customers.Minimum 7 years experience supporting US Intelligence Community customersMinimum 7 years experience leading technical teamsExperience mentoring junior technical talent in capture/solutioning effortsAbility to obtain a TS/SCI clearanceDesired Qualifications:TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph and demonstrated experience with:Cloud based application development and deploymentCloud Migration of applicationsEdge to Cloud architecture understanding and experienceAgile software development and leading software development teamsITIL certificationOn premise data center operation experienceData Center operationsExternal Referral Bonus:EligiblePotential for Telework:Yes, 75%Clearance Level Required:NoneTravel:Yes, 25% of the timeScheduled Weekly Hours:40Shift:DayRequisition Category:ProfessionalJob Family:Systems EngineeringPay Range: Full time

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