Principal Solution Architect, National Solutions Growth
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Job Location:
Gaithersburg, MD - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 154050 - 278475
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Intelligence Sector at Leidos has an exciting and strategic opening for aPrincipal Solution Architect & Innovation Lead to work in ourGaithersburg MD or Chantilly VA offices. This is a unique opportunity to use your deep technical expertise and leadership experience to help shape the future of end-to-end space and geospatial intelligence systems. We are seeking a visionary technical leader who thrives on complex challenges takes ownership of them and drives their success with innovative solutions that push the envelope. If you are passionate about solving the nations toughest global monitoring challenges and inspiring teams to deliver groundbreaking results this role is for you.
Primary Responsibilities
In this dynamic role you will be a go-to technical leader deployed to solve our customers most pressing problems and to architect their future-state systems. Your responsibilities will include:
Technical Strategy & Innovation:Champion and architect innovative next-generation system solutions. You will lead technical planning and Analysis of Alternatives for high-consequence acquisition decisions evaluating alternatives based on cost risk and supportability for the total system life cycle.
Proposal & Business Development Leadership:Serve as the technical visionary and lead for high-priority proposal efforts including RFPs and RFIs. You will shape winning strategies and solutions that align with customer needs and differentiate Leidos in the marketplace.
Program Execution & Recovery:Act as a technical first responder to diagnose and resolve complex issues on challenged programs. You will provide expert-level diagnostics recovery planning and hands-on leadership to guide teams back to success.
Architect Next-Gen Solutions: Design end-to-end solutions that integrate emerging technologies (Generative AI Computer Vision Edge Compute) into mission-critical workflows spanning from sensor collection to final exploitation.
Customer Engagement & Inspiration:Engage directly with senior government customers program managers and stakeholders to understand their challenges build trust and inspire confidence. You will translate their mission needs into actionable technical requirements and roadmaps.
Team Leadership & Mentorship:Lead and mentor dynamic multi-disciplinary teams often in transient settings. You will foster a culture of innovation ownership and technical excellence coaching other technical staff to elevate their performance.
Basic Qualifications
Modern Technical Fluency: While you have extensive tenure your recent experience (last 5 years) must demonstrate hands-on leadership in modern architectures:
Cloud Native: Architecting solutions on AWS/Azure (Serverless Containers/Kubernetes Microservices)
Data & AI: Experience integrating Data Fabrics AI/ML pipelines or automated processing of overhead sensor data.
Capture & Proposal Experience: Demonstrated track record of leading technical responses for federal acquisitions. You must be able to deconstruct an RFP L&M (Section L and M) and architect a compliant winning technical solution.
Large Development Program Experience: Proven leadership experience in technical planning system design and full life cycle systems engineering (requirements analysis functional analysis integration verification and validation).
Education & Tenure: BS in Computer Science or related field with 15 years of relevant experience (MS with 13 years or PhD with 10 years)
Clearance: Must possess an active TS/SCI security clearance and have ability to obtain a polygraph-level clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
Complex Solution Landscapes: Demonstrated experience resolving highly complex multi-dimensional problems that require consideration of variables impacting multiple aspects of a program.
GovCon & Domain Expertise: Deep proven understanding of the Intelligence Community (IC) landscape specifically space-based architectures ground processing GEOINT and TCPED missions. You must understand the constraints and requirements of classified environments.
Excellent Writing and Communication Skills: Exceptional communication and presentation skills with a proven ability to engage and influence senior executive leadership and customers.
Mission Domain Experience: Direct hands-on experience supporting satellite ground systems mission management or geospatial intelligence programs.
Large Program Solutioning: Demonstrated success leading the solutioning of capture and proposal efforts for major government contracts.
Modern Engineering Skills: Experience with modern engineering methodologies such as Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Agile and DevSecOps.
Deep Technical Skills: Familiarity with key technology areas such as cloud architectures (AWS Azure) Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) data analytics and cybersecurity.
Strong Software Development / R&D Experience: Hands-on experience developing innovative solutions in a modern language (e.g. Java C) preferably in both program and R&D settings.
If youre looking for comfort keep scrolling. At Leidos we outthink outbuild and outpace the status quo because the mission demands it. Were not hiring followers. Were recruiting the ones who disrupt provoke and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. Were already at step 30 and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Original Posting:
February 3 2026For 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:
Pay Range $154050.00 - $278475.00The 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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Business Process
- VMware
- Cloud
- HTML5
- Windows
- Project managements
- AWS
- Infrastructure
- Web Services
- JQuery
- Java
- Computer Engineering
- Solutions design
- Technical Solutions
- Analytics
About Company
Leidos is an innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. Our 47,000 employees collaborate to create smarter technology solutions for customers in these critical markets.
