Technical Lead (Systems Engineering)

Technical Lead - Systems Engineering

Location: Farnborough or other Leidos UK Offices with flexibility to work from home dependent on business demands

Looking for an opportunity to make an impact

About the Role

Leidos is seeking an experienced Technical Lead (Systems Engineering) to play a pivotal role on a critical national infrastructure Programme one of Leidos UKs flagship delivery programmes supporting a highprofile government customer.

The Technical Lead will provide handson technical leadership across complex multisupplier systems applying systems engineering best practice to the design integration change and assurance of missioncritical IT services. Working closely with the Chief Engineer Architects Project Managers Infrastructure Networks and Software teams the role ensures that solutions delivered by Leidos are technically sound secure and fitforpurpose.

This is a leadership role that combines deep technical expertise systems thinking and stakeholder engagement with accountability for guiding teams through change risk and technical decisionmaking.

What will I be doing

Technical Leadership

• Act as Technical Lead for systems engineering activities within assigned workstreams or projects.
• Provide authoritative technical direction across onpremise and cloudhosted systems ensuring coherence across infrastructure networks applications and services.
• Lead technical decisionmaking tradeoffs and design assurance in line with programme and customer requirements.

Systems Engineering & Design

• Apply Systems Engineering principles across the full engineering lifecycle (VModel) including requirements design integration verification and transition to service.
• Own and assure key engineering artefacts including impact assessments highlevel and lowlevel designs and technical change documentation.
• Ensure designs are aligned with programme architecture security constraints and operational needs.

Change & Impact Assessment

• Lead the technical impact assessment of Requests for Change (RFCs) and new requirements.
• Clearly define technical scope dependencies risks and estimates for change delivery.
• Support Project Managers with technically robust inputs to planning costing and scheduling.

Stakeholder & Customer Engagement

• Work directly with customer technical stakeholders to elicit clarify and refine requirements.
• Act as a trusted technical authority able to explain complex technical topics clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Collaborate effectively across Leidos engineering disciplines and thirdparty suppliers.

Governance Quality & Assurance

• Ensure compliance with Leidos engineering standards programme governance and security policies.
• Identify technical risks early and define mitigation strategies.
• Support technical reviews audits and assurance activities as required.

Mentoring & Capability Development

• Provide technical mentoring and coaching to junior and midlevel engineers.
• Promote good engineering practice reuse of patterns and continuous improvement across the programme.
• Contribute to the development of common ways of working and engineering maturity within the programme.

What does Leidos need from me

Essential

• Proven experience as a Technical Lead or Senior Systems Engineer on largescale complex IT programmes.
• Strong grounding in Systems Engineering concepts and lifecycle management.
• Broad technical understanding across:
  • Infrastructure (compute storage virtualisation)
  • Networks
  • Applications and integrations
  • Hybrid and/or cloud environments
• Experience leading technical design integration and change in a controlled highassurance environment.
• Ability to assess technical risk manage dependencies and make sound engineering decisions.
• Excellent communication skills with experience engaging customers and senior stakeholders.

Desirable

• Experience working on UK government defence or critical national infrastructure programmes.
• Familiarity with IT service delivery environments and operational constraints.
• Knowledge of securitydriven design and working within secure environments.
• Experience influencing technical strategy across multisupplier ecosystems.

Personal Attributes

• Confident technical leader with strong systems thinking.
• Pragmatic deliveryfocused and able to balance risk cost and quality.
• Collaborative and comfortable working across organisational boundaries.
• Passionate about engineering excellence and developing others.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on one of Leidos UKs most significant and visible programmes.
• Exposure to complex missioncritical systems with real national impact.
• A collaborative engineering culture with clear technical career pathways.
• Competitive salary benefits and flexible working arrangements.

Location

• UK (Hybrid / Customer site as required)

Clearance Requirements:

• Must be eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC or higher; DV desirable)

What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers a collaborative culture and support for your career goals all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
Contributory Pension Scheme
Private Medical Insurance
33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance health schemes gym memberships annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

Flexi-Time Working

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging welcoming all perspectives and contributions and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE we work to make the worldsaferhealthier andmore efficient through technology engineering andscience.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence healthcare government safety and security and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning AI cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home the office or on customer sites we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos we invest in technical academies career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

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.

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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.