Chief Engineer - TS/SCI with Poly

Description

Job Description:

The Integrated Solutions Division at Leidos is seeking an experienced, Agile focused professional to serve as a Chief Engineer. In this role, you will create, grow, and manage the SIGINT software development capabilities within the Integrated Solutions Division. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your experience to support our customer’s mission. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting best-in-class engineering operations in a dynamic enterprise environment for a variety of customer driven emphasis items.

Qualified applicants must be self-motivated and be able to perform expertly given consistently evolving priorities. The candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the engineering discipline with flawless execution.

Primary Responsibilities

• Support the Customer with engineering solutions and processes that enable agility, speed, and security - across the diverse types of opportunities and programs including Software Engineering and Cloud Solutions
• Define, maintain, update, and execute rigorous engineering tools, processes, and resources – and drive innovation into these areas
• Support on-contract growth through the development of innovative ideas and solutions to meet new customer requirements
• Ensure proper engineering discipline, rigor, reporting, and focus in our solutions and planning for current and new business opportunities
• Develop highly innovative solutions to resolve complex problems involving limited and disparate information through the application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation, and integration of best practices
• Serve as a technical SME interfacing with PMs and division leadership to make comprehensive recommendations and develop executable strategies
• Advise and support engineering requirements of large-scale systems, major elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a complex network with geographically distributed components
• Implement community policies and guidance consistent with information system requirement analysis, transition planning, and research and assistance
• Coordinate, facilitate, and verify service transitions across multiple environments including cloud infrastructures
• Support business process improvement and proposal development activities
• Provide engineering technical support to special projects as needed

Basic Qualifications

• U.S. citizen with Current TS/SCI access and Polygraph
• Requires Masters with 15+ years of prior relevant experience or a Doctorate with 13+ years of prior relevant experience
• Five or more years of experience managing large and complex projects in the customer environment including strategy and plan development, risk analysis, status reporting, and execution matrices

• Expert knowledge of and ability to apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts in support of Agile Principles
• Must possess a solid understanding of SAFe Agile Framework

• Current DoD 8570 certification applicable to the position (typically Security+)

• Ability to communicate effectively in technical and non-technical verbal and written correspondence with internal team members, customers, and external stake holders

Preferred Qualifications

• Be comfortable working on multiple systems and components simultaneously in various configurations.
• Ability to effectively plan and prioritize tasking and communicate clearly regarding technical options and trade-offs.

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