Systems Engineering Lead

Leidos is seeking a Systems Engineer Lead to support the National GeospatialIntelligence Agencys (NGA) GEOINT Dissemination Task Order on the FS2 Contract. This individual will bring seasoned leadership and systems engineering experience to manage and modernize onprem and cloudbased dissemination environments. The ideal candidate will have the technical acumen Agile experience and strategic communication skills necessary to lead integration operations and sustainment efforts across security domains and development teams.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serve as a lead engineer guiding the integration operations sustainment and DevSecOps deployment of complex dissemination systems (Gateway Tile Generation EFD).

• Interface with senior NGA stakeholders to communicate priorities milestones risk mitigations and system performance updates.

• Collaborate with Agile Release Trains and Government Product Owners to groom backlogs manage dependencies and track deliverables through SAFe Agile workflows.

• Lead and contribute to readiness reviews (TRR/ORR) configuration control boards and technical exchange meetings.

• Oversee system performance optimization baseline management and metric tracking across both onprem and cloud environments.

• Coordinate and deconflict technical requirements across mission partners leveraging strong background in systems engineering artifacts and process discipline.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have an active Top Secret to be considered and ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance prior to start and willingness and ability to obtain a Polygraph.

• Bachelors degree in systems engineering Information Technology Management Computer Information Systems or related technical field

• 12 years of systems engineering experience or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree including NGA and DoD programs

• Demonstrated leadership in Agile environments supporting requirements analysis configuration management and integration activities

• Experience briefing senior leadership authoring technical documentation and managing performance deliverables

• Experience with systems lifecycle activities including testing IV&V and system administration

• Familiarity with NGA dissemination capabilities such Gateway systems

• SAFe Agile Certified; experience supporting backlog management and Release Planning Events

• Strong knowledge of engineering boards CM processes and business intelligence/data alignment strategies

• Ability to lead a team mentor junior team members and drive technical projects.

• Strong problemsolving and troubleshooting skills in highpressure environments.

• Excellent communication skills with experience in presenting technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders.

• Comfortable working in a collaborative crossfunctional environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with AWS cloud services and environments

• Familiarity with NGAs Confluence JIRA and DevSecOps pipeline environments

• Prior experience supporting NGA requirements transformation initiatives from documents to digital environments

• Strong understanding of GEOINT product lifecycle architecture alignment and metadata/ingest management

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.