Solution Architect
Leidos
- San Diego, CA
- $108,550-196,225 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide sound and consistent architectural leadership in shaping the technical design solution and strategy.
- Work with cross-functional product, business, and functional development teams across Leidos.
- Lead the capture of the system design requirements.
- Decompose high-level customer requirements into finer technical, functional and logical requirements.
- Facilitate identification of key technological differentiators that will enhance our product designs, enable a competitive edge, and increase the probability of a successful, deliverable product proposal that meets and exceeds the customer’s needs and leads to program wins
- Facilitate the design of the system architecture and technical road map for key product solutions. Engages with the development and production teams during program execution and offers oversight and review of requirements capture, validation and test coverage, as well as review of performance/results to ensure customer requirements are met.
- Enhance Leidos best practices.
- Review and incorporate lessons learned.
- Enhance technological approaches to research, design, and develop innovative solutions.
- Understand competitor, teammate, and customer technology strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
- Be the customer facing technical interface during product capture.
- Firm understanding of Electronic Warfare (EW) methodologies and employment of various countermeasures.
- Understanding of the fundamentals of Directed Energy used in the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Understand the various forms of electromagnetic spectrum used during Electronic Warfare.
- Firm understanding of Electronic Attack (EA)and various methodologies to disrupt, deny, degrade and destroy EA
- Firm understanding of Electronic Protection (EP) as it pertains to preventing a receiver from being jammed or deceived.
- Firm understanding of Electronic Support (ES) as it pertains to sensing the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Firm understanding and the unique differences employed between Surface, Ground, Airborne, and Cyber Electronic Warfare
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems, Aerospace, Mechanical, Computer, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering.
- 10+ years of experience related to product development, design, and validation.
- Extensive knowledge in multiple development languages, software development and system design best practices, robotic process automation, infrastructure and configuration automation, testing, tool integrations, and communication to enhance robotic process automation platform.
- Hands-on experience developing customer integration and reference implementations for complex logistics architectures.
- Awareness of leading technology capability providers that enhance our technical solutions.
- Experience as a solution architect and/or technical volume lead on captures and proposals.
- Experience articulating complex technical concepts to customers, business development, program delivery, technical teams, and executives, both orally and in writing.
- Experience with technical documentation and white papers in support of the requirements gathering process.
- Experience with system design, performance, or support issues and provide advice and recommendations to technical writing staff.
- Ability to work effectively remotely and in a team environment with other highly skilled individuals.
- Demonstrated experience with Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) methods for tracking requirements and modeling complex systems.
- Experience in modern digital engineering tools such as Cameo, JIRA, Confluence, GitLab,
- Experience in modern digital methodologies such as Agile, SecDevOps, and Scrum.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- US citizen with an ability to obtain a Secret security clearance.
- 5-10 Years experience with Government Space Missile and Defense Command (SMDC), Space Development Agency (SDA), Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and Space Systems Command (SSC) programs.
- Experience with providing technical advice, assistance, and engineering services to military SATCOM operators and their managers. Provide telephonic support as required to help isolate and resolve difficult issues.
- Experience with Logistics Sustainment related systems.
- US citizen with an ability to obtain a Top-Secret security clearance.