Senior Solution Architect

The Digital Modernization Sector has a career opportunity for a Senior Solution Architect for Innovations supporting the Global Solutions Management Operations II (GSMO II) contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). This contract includes the Operations Sustainment Maintenance Repair and Defense of the Defense Information System Network (DISN) within the DOD Information Network (DODIN). It also includes support to other key tasks for DISA including the transformation of DISAs operational mission through innovation and support to DISAs mission partners. The Solution Architect will be a part of a multifaceted matrixed and integrated innovations team supporting a large complex and innovative AWS cloudbased solution.

The Solution Architect will establish strategic solution vision and design and create complex solution architectures define requirements and author design documentation and related technical artifacts that drive current and future program results improving efficiency within the program and delivering improvements to service delivery to the customer while working closely with the Chief Architect engineering leads and customer stakeholders. The Solution Architect will own solution design engaging with all technical teams on the program establish logical and physical architectures lead technical designs determine priorities scope additional work and oversee the planning and development of capabilities and will lead the resolution of complex technical challenges as they arise.

The Solution Architect will support new business development activities such as engaging with stakeholders and leadership to shape new business opportunities authoring whitepapers and RFI responses and conducting trade studies and analyses of alternatives while proposing new and innovative solutions that align with strategic objectives. As needed the Solution Architect will respond to requests to estimate cost timeline and effort and refine scope of work by developing relevant artifacts. The Solution Architect will communicate regularly with individuals across roles and levels including executive leadership.

This position is primarily remote; however travel to GSMO sites is required when necessary and candidates must be within commuting distance to either Scott AFB IL or Ft. Meade MD. A DoD Secret clearance is required to start.

Primary Responsibilities

Architecture and Design

• Own the solution architecture of a large cloudbased operations support system platform responsible for the architecture and design and accountable for creating and implementing innovative technical solutions for the GSMO program.
• Lead architectural design and technical planning including roadmap development and implementation of modern techniques and technologies such as Cloud (AWS) Software Defined Networking (SDN) AIOps AI/ML Elasticsearch and Kafka.
• Develop and maintain complex solution architectures and design documentation ensure alignment with strategic objectives and program goals integrate new technologies into architectures and evaluate tools for highquality delivery. Maintain a forwardlooking perspective on industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Support innovation planning analytical research architecture and design development across the innovations portfolio and analyze government customer requirements to develop system requirements specifications.
• Perform data gathering requirements definition and analysis use case development gap analysis dependency analysis and management develop functional and design specifications and provide measurable input to new solutions processes or standards to achieve functional/project objectives.
• Facilitate problemsolving to manage risk remove impediments drive programlevel continuous improvement validate system characteristics properties and behaviors and enable early feedback.
• Own the resolution of complex technical challenges as they arise leveraging technical expertise and problemsolving skills.
• Perform technical planning system integration verification and validation cost/risk and supportability effectiveness analyzes for systems across the DISN and GSMO.
• Support evaluation of new technologies platforms or enhancements which could expand or enhance the GSMOII program.
• Support the design implementation and of test cases and testing framework for the instantiation of infrastructure as code in environment to verify the quality of deployed code. Author and execute User Acceptance strategies plans and scripts for the innovations deployment.

Collaboration

• Collaborate with stakeholders including customers vendors and government personnel to define technical solutions resolve dependencies and drive positive change within the program.
• Work with the team leadership to define technical priorities establish logical and physical architectures and lead technical designs.
• Conduct seniorlevel customer presentations and demonstrations and interface with government customers to brief technical solutions status and issues.
• Communicate regularly with individuals across roles and levels including executive leadership to ensure alignment and coordination.
• Collaborate with colleagues process owners technical leads and other process stakeholders to monitor and report technical variances and facilitate resolution of technical issues.
• Negotiate and manage project scope timelines and budgets and resolve challenges through planning adjustments.
• Guide government customers in formulating functional hardware and/or software requirements advises alternative approaches and conducts feasibility studies.

Growth

• Perform analysis of alternatives trade studies and costbenefit analysis to identify engineering risks efficiencies and improved ways of delivering services to customers.
• Support proposal development and cost estimation for new GSMOII capabilities and ongoing enhancements.
• Engage with stakeholders and leadership to support new business development including authoring whitepapers and RFI responses and conducting trade studies and analyses of alternatives.
• Estimate cost timeline and effort for proposed solutions and refine scope of work to ensure feasibility and alignment with customer requirements.
• Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to ensure solutions are designed and implemented in accordance with industry best practices and standards.

Travel and Clearance

• Travel to GSMO sites < 15 is required when necessary.
• Must possess and maintain a DoD Secret clearance or higher.

Basic Qualifications

• Hold an active security certification that meets DOD 8570 IAT level II or higher.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience and 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 8 years or prior relevant experience. Experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
• Ability to travel to customer sites <15 when necessary.
• Experience leading strategy development architecture creation design development and delivery of data driven capabilities within a DoD environment.
• Demonstrated ability to drive technological innovation and serve as an agent of change within an organization.
• Strong technical breadth and depth in support of the government markets particularly in government network design implementation operations and modernization.
• Familiarity with networking fundamentals and experience designing networkbased solutions.
• Experience architecting large scale cloud native architecture design utilizing industry security standards.
• Experience with data architectures and pipelines for structured unstructured and semistructured data across various data repositories and data lakes.
• Experience with frontend technologies UI/UX design and Agile DevSecOps tools and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experienced professional in contract performance with demonstrated technical lead and customer relationship building in the performance and growth of contracts.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required to collaborate with customer representatives domain experts systems engineers and architects.
• Ability to collaborate with people from a variety of disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages cloud computing distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies including Scrum ceremonies and experience with Agile work management tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
• Strong communication skills able to clearly articulate status and present to both customers and Program leadership.
• Ability to prioritize strict deadlines across concurrent activities on a fastpaced project.
• Experience working with Linux operating system and operating system commands.
• Familiarity with web services and REST APIs
• Maintain an active Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with AI/ML models for processing and analyzing large datasets AI/MLbased Automation and AIOps concepts.
• Proven expertise in mission software solutions related to data science machine learning or similar technologies.
• Strong proficiency in scalable microservices UI/UX design and fullstack development.
• Strong networking experience including familiarity with BGP MPLS IP and optical networking concepts tools and practices as well as understanding of network routing devices and network device configurations.
• Experience with DISA and DoD Networks and processes DoD Cybersecurity accreditation processes DISA operations and Cyber Risk Management Processes
• Experience architecting cloudbased AWS services SecDevOps processes cloud migrations and cloud enterprise software implementations.
• Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps Configuration as Code Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD implementation.
• Experience architecting solutions for Elastic Kibana Kafka Robotic Process Automation (UiPath) and ServiceNow.
• Completed certifications in system architecture cloud or network solutions (e.g. AWS Cisco Juniper).
• Experience with cloudbased specifically AWS enterprise implementations.
• Experience with big data applications.

Original Posting:

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.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.