Solution Architect – Digital Modernisation

Job Description

We’re forward-thinkers who enjoy a challenge. Do you?

You’ll come for the opportunity and then stay for the growth. Training, development, support and learning is baked into everything we do at Leidos. The sheer breadth and experience you’ll be exposed to due to the scale and the variety of the projects will make every day a learning day. Coupled with the choice to go deep and specialise, or think broadly and spread your wings to other sectors or industries, it won’t be long before your career is on the move. In fact, your career is never kept waiting long as you’ll get the opportunity to work across big-scale work from the get-go. With our ambition and reputation growing hand-in-hand, we’re winning the kind of projects that will give you the visibility and experience to grow your career, your way, and doing work that really matters.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for varying levels of Architects and Architectural Consultants to be part of our technical functional division (Science, Engineering, and Technology Team)

Be seen as the expert in Solution Architecture– working closely with the Capability Lead, you will be involved in a diverse portfolio of projects, essentially consulting your expertise and thought leadership into the organisation supporting new and existing programs.

About you and what you do.

You can walk into a meeting without a 20-page PowerPoint, and are able to engage and instill confidence by “having a conversation” and actually understanding internal and external clients’ needs. As a natural consultant, you will enhance our current capability and be the conduit to supporting the completion of the technical outcome, as and where appropriate- and helping drive the technical component of overall outcomes.

You are comfortable navigating clearly defined and ambiguous requirements and helping to drive clarity and guide the strategic direction. 

Qualifications

About you and what you do.

You can walk into a meeting without a 20-page PowerPoint, and are able to engage and instill confidence by “having a conversation” and actually understanding internal and external clients’ needs. As a natural consultant, you will enhance our current capability and be the conduit to supporting the completion of the technical outcome, as and where appropriate- and helping drive the technical component of overall outcomes.

You are comfortable navigating clearly defined and ambiguous requirements and helping to drive clarity and guide the strategic direction. 

Our ideal candidate would be someone with solutions and/or enterprise architecture experience, strategy or consulting experience as well as Federal government or large-scale IT environments.

The following technical experience would be highly desirable: 

• Public, private, and hybrid cloud computing
• Cyber operations and hardening
• ITSM and ITIL
• Project and program management
• Architecture and engineering
• SRE
• The journey towards AIOps
• User-centric IT
• Automation The journey to software-defined everything and SecDevOps
• Service mapping

Who you’ll work with

As part of the Science Engineering and Technology team, you’ll feel inspired to be part of a creative and influential team. You’ll be working with a leader who has an Open-minded, collaborative leadership style that is all about empowering and motivating.

Additional Information

You’ll be valued for how you get work done over just having the skills to do it. Your try-anything-can-do-why-not-never-give-up attitude will win the day every time in a team where no egos and no complacency is allows. If seeing things out is hard-wired into your DNA, and you eat ambiguity for breakfast which then fuels your curiosity for the rest of the day, you’ll definitely not be disappointed. Working with open, trusting and supportive people leaders, you’ll feel inspired and confident about building your career here and living your best Leidos Life.