Health Solutions Innovation Director

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At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. We use a wide range of capabilities in Digital Modernization, Mission Software Systems, and enabling technologies including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to support our customers’ mission in advancing biomedical research and protecting public health. Our team’s focus is ensuring our health customers have the right solutions to keep pace with an ever-evolving public health landscape and prevent the next public health crisis.  To explore and learn more, click here!

The Health Solutions Business Area Office of Technology at Leidos currently has an opening for a Director of Innovation to lead technology enabled growth across our healthcare markets. This is an exciting opportunity to use industry experience to deliver innovative solutions that help our customers transform and modernize their Health missions. The qualified candidate will function as the technical and strategic lead, working with a broader cross-functional team to generate requirements through ongoing customer interactions, and then develop and assist in delivering solutions based on our customers current and future needs in the Military and Civilian Health markets.

In addition, the Health Solutions Innovation Director will work as an interface between programs, customers and Leidos senior management, ensuring Leidos management understanding of customer domain, pain points, and strategy to drive business development and technology insertion initiatives, in order to ensure success of high-value capture and on-contract growth opportunities.

This role is functional, and matrixed to support contracts that require US Citizenship/Green Card or suitability clearances to allow customer site visits and access to secured data and systems.  Inability to meet this requirement will restrict ability to perform work on government mission based programs.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participate in the identification of new technologies and lead investment projects focused on using those technologies to develop repeatable solutions that increase Leidos differentiation. Determine relevancy and customer impact of new healthcare focused technologies
• Understand and monitor overall healthcare market trends assessing technologies for fit within customer tool sets
• Participate in opportunity shaping efforts to drive internal and external customer understanding of technical discriminators and assist in injecting Leidos technology differentiators into customer operations
• Develop solutions that are highly innovative and achieved through research and integration of best practices
• Work with the program and line leadership to identify technology and solution roadmaps to improve mission capabilities resulting in increased contract growth and improved customer satisfaction.
• Develop and lead execution of innovation investment portfolio including Internal Research and Development (IRAD), CRAD, and joint partner initiatives.  Responsibility includes Project Manager/Principal Investigator (PM/PI) functions for our most complex investment efforts.
• Act as a subject matter expert in the translation of solution requirements into design documentation
• Provide direction on a variety of design decisions including solution evaluation and selection, buy vs. build vs. reuse questions, early-phase project estimates, platform selection, and technical designs

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in a technical discipline with 15+ years of prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree with 13+ years or prior relevant experience
• Experienced professional in contract performance with demonstrated technical lead and customer relationship building in the performance and growth of contracts. Capable of generating on-contract-growth through insertion of innovation and technology on existing programs
• Experienced solution architect, s