Operations Systems Engineer

Leidos’s DECO Division and GSMO II team currently has an opening for an Operations Systems Engineer with experience interpreting and translating government requirements and mission needs into technical solutions and system implementations. You will work with our team of engineers, developers and data scientists to architect and design IT and cyber solutions, often at enterprise scale solving some of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) biggest problems. This is a senior level technical position that will lead the data solution development for our largest and most strategic new and existing clients’ most significant mission needs. You will also coordinate closely with business development, internal research & development (IRAD) and other subject matter expert (SME) staff to support new business development, including pre-proposal capture support and proposal development.

Candidates should possess a DoD Clearance at the Secret level with the ability to obtain a Top Secret as highly desirable.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and direction for the execution of DoD IT new business during the capture phase, through proposal development and into program startup upon award.

• Lead solution architecture definition of complete enterprise IT solutions covering the lifecycle from early CONOPS, to requirements, design, deployment and sustainment.

• 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 and customer shaping calls.

• Key activities for this role will include mission analysis, requirement translation and definition,  analysis of alternatives / trade-off studies, technical planning, and design.

• Engage with IRAD teams, internal Digital Modernization staff and strategic partners to guide differentiated solutions for current and future customers.

• Analyze and describe AS-IS system CONOPS, IT processes, and functional and technical architectures to validate relevance to mission needs.

• Guide TO-BE solution development, including CONOPS, operational, functional, physical, technical and data views to ensure mission relevance and customer needs are solved for.

• Prepare for and lead technical readiness reviews.

• Author white papers, prepare technical demonstrations, and deliver capability briefings to potential customers.

• Lead development of written and oral technical proposals, to include support for internal reviews and adjudication of feedback.

• Produce technical roadmaps that advance the technical baseline and address mission, technical, and business factors.

Basic Qualifications:

• BS degree and 15 – 20 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 13 – 15 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.

• 10+ years of experience supervising or leading DoD/Government technical projects and teams

• Candidates should possess a DoD Clearance at the Secret level with the ability to obtain a Top Secret as highly desirable.

• Broad knowledge with experience planning, designing and integrating enterprise DoD/military IT and cyber systems and technologies, including end user devices, compute & store, defensive cyber, networking, storage, and application and database integration

• Demonstrated experience performing systems requirements analysis, functional analysis, concept development, timeline analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition, technical management, integration, system testing, and verification & validation

• Experience planning DoD/military IT and cyber system implementations to include deployment of systems / subsystems across multiple locations

• Knowledge and experience performing specialty engineering for enterprise IT and cyber systems, including continuity of operations (COOP) and disaster recovery, reliability, maintainability, growth & obsolescence and testability

• Knowledge and ability to implement technical configuration management and change management processes

• Ability to communicate with DoD/Government and business executive leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization.

• Experience and ability to successfully negotiate and influence others to understand and accept new concepts, practices and approaches

• Experience estimating all technical and operations labor and material costs

• Experience identifying and assessing mission impacts to proposed changes to a largely technical solution or enterprise operations

• Excellent written and oral communication capability

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with integrating commercial solutions with DoD/military enterprise IT and cyber systems

• Experience with Defense Information Systems Agency and/or interfaces to the Defense Information Systems Network

• Experience developing strategic roadmaps for IT services and providing technical oversight to ensure developed solutions, satisfy customer and business requirements

For U.S. Positions: 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.

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.