Description
Job Description:
Job Description
Leidos’s Defense Group, Enterprise & Cyber Solutions team currently has an opening for a Data Solutions Architect with experience architecting and implementing complex business data solutions, to include big data platforms, data fabrics, BI and analytical tools. You will work with our team of engineers, developers and data scientists to architect and design data platforms at enterprise scale solving some of the country’s biggest data problems, ranging from enterprise IT operations to cybersecurity. This is a senior level technical position that will lead the data solution development for our largest and most strategic new and existing clients. 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 either possess or be capable of obtaining a DoD Clearance at the Secret level.
Primary Responsibilities
•Provide the 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 data solution architecture definition of complete Enterprise Service solutions covering the lifecycle from early CONOPS, to requirements, development, 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 requirement definition, architecture development, analysis of alternatives / trade-off studies, technical planning, and design.
•Engage with IRAD teams, internal AI/ML Accelerator staff and strategic partners to provide differentiated solutions for current and future customers.
•Analyze and describe AS-IS system CONOPS, function and technical architectures.
•Develop TO-BE solutions, including CONOPS, operational, physical, technical and data views.
•Prepare for and lead technical readiness reviews.
•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 both the technical and the business factors.
•Lead engineering assessments and recommendations for selection of investments for a range of large scale COTS solutions across various vendor offerings.
•Provide options with recommendations for integrating vendor solutions for large scale enterprises and strategies for technical refresh and deployment into the enterprise.
Basic Qualifications
•BS degree and 12 – 15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 15 – 20 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.
•3+ years of experience supervising or leading technical projects and teams
•Previous experience with COTS and open source solutions with broad expertise guiding project and operations across multiple related IT disciplines throughout the project lifecycle
•Understanding of modern data tools and approaches (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, data catalogs).
•Experience in software engineering and design, including working cooperatively with Data Scientists
•Understanding of data cataloging / data quality / data security
•Prior hands-on experience with relational data / SQL / data modelling and scripting tools
•Ability to communicate with 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 business impacts to proposed changes to a largely technical solution or enterprise operations
•Excellent written and oral communication capability
Preferred Qualifications
•Architecture Framework knowledge and certification
•ITIL foundations certification with Enterprise IT experience using ITIL 4
•Familiarity with the processes, tools and techniques to develop AI/ML solutions
•Technical Certifications such as AWS/MS or Security Certifications such as CISSP
•Experience developing strategic roadmaps for IT services and providing technical oversight to ensure developed solutions, satisfy customer and business requirements
•Recent experience migrating and sustaining applications from on-premise solutions to CSPs
Pay Range:
Pay Range $139,750.00 - $215,000.00 - $290,250.00#Remote
About Leidos
Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 45,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2022. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
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