Chief Architect, Software Engineering & Containerization

Position: Chief Architect Software Engineering & Containerization

Location: Colorado Springs CO

At Leidos we tackle complex challenges that matter. Our teams deliver innovative mission-driven solutions powered by diverse talent technical excellence and a shared commitment to doing whats rightfor our customers our people and our world. If you thrive at the intersection of deep technical work and strategic influence this role offers the chance to shape the future of a major mission-critical system.

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Were seeking a Chief Architect to lead the engineering and design strategy for containerizing software components within the Missile Warning system. Reporting directly to the Program Manager you will guide a multidisciplinary systems engineering teamspanning systems software and test engineeringresponsible for the SysML and UML models that enable migration of legacy code into a modern containerized environment.

This is a highimpact technical leadership role where you will define the architectural vision drive modernization strategy and mentor teams through a complex multiphase transformation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of system engineers software engineers test engineers and supporting roles

• Ensure successful contract execution and onschedule delivery

• Validate test procedures and plans to ensure alignment with customer requirements

• Drive the conversion of a noncontainerized environment into a fully containerized architecture (primary focus)

• Interpret and guide SysML and UML modeling to support software enhancement delivery

• Define and communicate a clear migration vision and architectural strategy that balances mission needs technical constraints and stakeholder priorities

• Recommend target architectures and phased migration strategies for transitioning from a monolithic systemofsystems to a modular containerbased environment

• Design service decomposition patterns and define appropriate service boundaries

• Translate strategy into a pragmatic migration roadmap with milestones success criteria and riskreduction steps

• Oversee migration patterns anticorruption layers and incremental cutover approaches while assessing downstream impacts

• Mentor engineering teams on containerization best practices and integration testing strategies

• Lead development and governance of canonical system models (logical behavioral allocation views) to support contractfirst API and event schema design

• Define verification and validation strategies using modelbased test generation simulation and scenariodriven validation for phased migration

• Utilize requirements management and traceability tools (IBM DOORS/DOORS Next Jama Polarion) and ensure linkage to MBSE artifacts

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science software engineering or related discipline with 12 years of relevant experience (Additional experience training or certifications may substitute for degree)

• US Citizen; currently possessing an active DoD Secret clearance.

• Understanding of C/Java in containerized environments

• Experience with requirements management and traceability tools (IBM DOORS/DOORS Next Jama Polarion)

• Demonstrated experience decomposing or modernizing monolithic applications through analysis planning and phased migration

• Strong knowledge of container technologies (e.g. Docker) and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes)

• Experience designing APIs and contractfirst integration patterns (REST WSDLfirst SOAP gRPC eventdriven messaging)

• Ability to produce migration roadmaps with cost/benefit analysis risk assessment and measurable success criteria

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in computer science software engineering or related discipline with 10 years of relevant experience.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Understanding of missile defense systems

• Experience with stateful workloads on Kubernetes (operators StatefulSets CSI drivers backup/restore strategies)

• Deep familiarity with data migration strategies (strangler fig anticorruption layers CQRS event sourcing changedatacapture)

• Proven track record mentoring engineering teams and building platform capabilities

• Experience translating JMS message formats into named streams for record publication

• Handson experience with model repositories and collaboration platforms (Teamwork Server Cameo Collaborator etc.) including model versioning and branching strategies

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