Consulting Employee

Company: Leidos
Location: Chantilly
Posted on: September 13, 2021

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Job Description:

Leidos has an immediate opening for a Solutions Architect to join our National Solutions Organization. This position will directly support the active growth plans of our Intelligence Solutions organization with a focus on DIA and DTRA needs. In this role, you will help customers solve demanding challenges via technology, modernization, and transformation processes with proven methods and solutions. The selected candidate will work with Operations and Business Development personnel to understand customer needs and lead the development of compelling solutions to those needs. They will bring these solutions forward through white papers, presentations, and proposal responses. This position requires leading and engaging teams of people with diverse skills to develop comprehensive solutions ranging from IT applications to full enterprise services, from program management activities to agency-wide operational support, and from scientific lab support to direct provider support. The successful candidate will be able to conceptualize these solutions around key business needs and goals in full awareness of industry trends. This position requires a broad and deep understanding of technology and our customers to match solutions to customer requirements and to differentiate Leidos from our competitors.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Leading the development of innovative solutions in support of major capture efforts, balancing these solutions against cost, schedule, function, quality, and other business considerations.
• Creation of white papers, proposals, and briefings demonstrating the thought leadership capabilities of the organization, as well as supporting various marketing and business development efforts through customer interaction.
• Assist capture strategy development through technical leadership, including the creation and marketing of discriminating value propositions.
• Assist in the development of the systems integration capabilities across multiple accounts within the business.
• Support program management and business development reviews and assist in improving performance of existing projects as required.
• Collaborate with the technical talent and solution architects in the organization to meet the current and future (new market) business challenges.
• Conduct pre-sales engineering activities, to include engaging directly with customers in combination with our Business Development and Operations leadership teams.
• Partner with the Business Development team in supporting the shaping and development of technical solutions, basis of estimates, and industry relationships via responses to RFPs, new business reviews, white papers, customer shaping calls, and Leidos’ corporate Win Plan process for larger franchise opportunities and to understand and participate in the development of new business strategy assessing current and future skills and technology needs.

Basic Qualifications:

Masters degree with 20+ years of prior relevant experience or Doctorate with 16+ years of prior relevant experience.

• Strong technical breadth and depth in support of the government markets and in particular in government IT design, implementation, operations, and modernization.
• Experience (at least 5 years) in three of the following areas, with Expertise in at least one: System Development, Software or Application Development, Hardware Engineering, Operations, System Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Information Assurance, Cyber Security, ITIL Framework, and Agile Development
• Strong communication skills (writing, speaking, and listening)
• Experience leading the development of solutions for proposals
• Experience in writing for white papers, RFI responses, and proposals
• Experience in running trade studies, product evaluations, or research projects
• Experience in customer engagements
• Development and/or Operational program experience
• Understands competitor/teammate technology offerings
• Must be able to collaborate across the corporation and with other technical SMEs, leveraging contacts to obtain key technical resources to continue technology exchange and enhancements.
• Ability to author, present, and articulate problem sets and associated solution elements in settings supporting customers, business development, program delivery, technical teams, and executives.
• Active TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance

US Citizenship is required due to the nature of the government contracts we support.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct experience working with any of the following customers: DIA or DTRA
• Experience engaging in business development and capture efforts
• Experience developing solutions involving data sciences, artificial intelligence, or robotic processing
• Experience developing or managing DevOps solutions that rely on cloud-based infrastructure
• Relevant technical or management certifications (PMP, ITIL, CISSP)

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