Sr. Solutions Architect

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Leidos is seeking a Sr. Solution Architect with broad expertise in servers, networks, storage, cyber, and data center facilities to join our Defense Enclave Services (DES) team at Ft. Meade, MD.

  
PROGRAM/POSITION SUMMARY:
 The DES program supports a highly demanding mission and requires support from top technical and management talent to migrate common IT services for over twenty DoD agencies under a common platform. You will play a key role in directing the technical teams throughout the engineering lifecycle (identification and assessment, discovery, design, and implementation planning) in support of building a world-class Single Service Provider for the Department of Defense.  This role will set standards and ensure consistent execution across multiple technical engineering teams. A successful candidate will lead a cross-functional technical teams to support the discovery analysis and design activities to migrate common IT services from over twenty large-scale DoD agencies into DoDNet. A successful candidate will be technically well-rounded, producing quality work with special attention to the right details.

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: 
 • Must possess an ACTIVE SECRET security clearance (US Citizenship required)

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

•  Serve as the senior migration architect, leading the design and implementation planning to consolidate DoD agencies’ services across infrastructure, network, identity, hosting, support, and end user capabilities.
•  Provide hands-on engineering and technical leadership for overall migration assessment, planning, architecture, design, and implementation tasks.
•  Set standards, enhance architectures, and provide technical guidance to ensure consistent delivery and quality of service across multiple government agencies.
•  Oversee and coordinate technical migration planning activities while monitoring and managing risks.
•  Brief senior DoD / Government management on active and proposed plans, technical issues, and architectural tradeoffs. 
•  Work with the project teams to identify risks, dependencies, and propose mitigation activities to deliver migrations on schedule and within budget. 
•  Work with team leadership to develop, enhance, and implement standardized migration processes and procedures.
•  Work across team members to document migration lessons learned for continual improvement of future migration activities.
•  Drive automation capabilities that increase engineering velocity and improved service delivery.
• Assessing the systems architecture currently in place and working with technical staff to recommend solutions to improve it

• Continually researching current and emerging technologies and proposing changes where needed.

• Identify and manage technical risks with respect to infrastructure migrations and timelines

• Identify opportunities to improve business process and drive operational efficiency

• Communicate with stakeholders proactively throughout the project to gather inputs, keep them updated, and coordinate with other teams

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

•  Master's degree and 15-20 years of relevant work experience or Doctorate with 13-16 years of prior relevant experience, additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
•  Experience planning and executing large/complex IT migrations and consolidations.
•  Experience with discovery, event management and ITSM tools.
•  In-depth understanding of cloud and network topologies, both transport and IP.
•  This position requires extensive writing and the selected candidate MUST have superb writing skills.
• Leadership experience in a cross-functional or matrix organization
• Must be a self starter, strong leader, and have the ability to work independently with little supervision.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
 •Familiarization of DISA, DOD regulations, and directives.

DISADES

External Referral Eligible

Original Posting Date:

2024-09-25

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 $144,300.00 - $260,850.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of