Solution Architect

Description

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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 sustainably. 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.

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We are in search of a Solution Architect to join our Health Solutions Technology team within the Leidos Health & Civil Sector. In this role, you will help customers solve their more demanding challenges via technology, modernization, transformation processes, and proven methods and solutions. As part of a creative, forward-thinking team, you will help shape solutions to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient. This position will be responsible to design solutions for Leidos customers, participating in the new business development, and provide strategic engineering support for our development teams on existing programs. In addition to this, you will provide subject matter expertise in the development of optimal and differentiated Leidos solutions to be delivered on programs, in proposals, or on research and development projects.

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THE MISSION
Leidos Health gives our customers confidence that they can deliver what matters most to their beneficiaries, time after time. Our industry-leading competencies indigital modernization, data analytics,life sciences, care enablement, andhuman performancemeans our customers can rely on us to solve their most important challenges and keep their operations running smoothly, enabling enhanced well-being for everyone.. Our team is solving the world's toughest security challenges for customers with "can't fail" missions. To explore and learn more, click here.

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Primary Responsibilities
Responsibilities include engaging in customer shaping efforts, requirements gathering, and proposal support activities, leveraging understanding of industry trends and Leidos capabilities for product development and system integration within the Federal Health domain:

• Conduct market research and product comparisons for Federal health processes and tools, tracking industry trends and assessing technologies for fit within customer tool sets.
• Contribute to customer engagements; analyzing customer needs and align them with industry trends and Leidos solution offerings.
• 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.
• Partner with Business Development staff to understand and participate in the development of new business strategy assessing current and future skills and technology needs.
• Organizes project and task work-loads and selects individuals most qualified for assignments on specific projects.
• Directs technical organization to ensure progress according to technical specifications, campaign strategies, and business objectives.
• Develop solutions that are highly innovative and achieved through research and integration of best practices.
• Resolves highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation.
• 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.
• Support customer and stakeholder meetings and technical discussions.
• Leading Internal Research and Development (IRAD) activities in the Federal Health domain to include Project Manager/Principal Investigator (PM/PI) functions for our most complex IRAD efforts. This includes managing cost and schedule to achieve the outcomes set forth in the beginning of the year.
• 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 design.
• Lead and write technical proposals, whitepapers and develop other collaterals in support of technical solutions.
• Provide responses to request for information (RFI) and government market surveys or sources sought notice.
• Provide basis of estimates (BOEs) for technical solutions.

Basic Qualifications

• BS degree with 12 - 15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 - 13 years of 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, sales engineer, and/or technical volume lead on captures and proposals.
• Proven ability to reach out to Industry, Academia, and government customers synchronizing efforts across multiple lines of research, development and funding to enhance our solutions offerings and close gaps in offerings yielding competitive technical solutions.
• Experience in health system definition, design, integration and delivery
• Knowledgeable in program management methodology and techniques; performance evaluation and change management principles
• Demonstrated ability in the areas of personnel planning, project reviews, scheduling, and budget control
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas
• Experience with regulatory and healthcare data handling and analysis in the Federal Civilian Health domain (e.g. FDA, NIH, CMS, SSA, HRSA, etc.)
• Experience in design and implementation of big data stores
• Experience with writing content for white papers, RFI responses, proposals and customer briefings
• Experience developing and reviewing BOM and BOEs for complex solutions
• Experience with reviewing proposal contents including draft reviews, red team reviews, risk reviews, etc.
• Implementation experience with one or more of the following: AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP
• Experience implementing DevSecOps in a cloud environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Operational experience in the Federal Civilian Health domain.
• Previous experience managing complex solution development efforts / contracts.
• Demonstrated ability to work across internal functions and with outside entities to facilitate successful product completion/delivery.
• Experience with Data Analytics and modern data platforms.
• Experience using modern digital engineering practices to include MBSE knowledge on development or integration programs.

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.

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.

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