HHS Division Solution Architect

Description

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. 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.

The Health and Civil Sector Office of Technology at Leidos currently has an opening for a HHS Division Solution Architect to lead growth opportunities in our Health Solutions Business Area (supporting HHS agencies). This is an exciting opportunity to use industry experience to deliver innovative solutions that help our customers transform and modernize their Federal 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 Federal Health market.

In addition, the HHS Division Solution Architect 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. Will need to be able to go into a Leidos location 25% of the time within the Metro DC area.

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:

1. Conduct market research and product comparisons for Federal health processes and tools, tracking industry trends and assessing technologies for fit within customer tool sets.
2. Contribute to customer engagements; analyzing customer needs and align them with industry trends and Leidos solution offerings.
3. 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.
4. Partner with Business Development staff to understand and participate in the development of new business strategy assessing current and future skills and technology needs.
5. Organize project and task workloads and select individuals most qualified for assignments on specific projects.
6. Direct technical organization to ensure progress according to technical specifications, campaign strategies, and business objectives.
7. Develop solutions that are highly innovative and achieved through research and integration of best practices.
8. Resolve highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation.
9. Participate in the identification of new technologies and lead investment projects focused on using those technologies to develop repeatable solutions that increase Leidos differentiation.
10. Support customer and stakeholder meetings and technical discussions.
11. Lead 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, including managing cost and schedule to achieve the outcomes set forth at the beginning of the year.
12. Act as a subject matter expert in the translation of solution requirements into design documentation.
13. 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.
14. Lead and write technical proposals, whitepapers, and develop other collaterals in support of technical solutions.
15. Provide responses to requests for information (RFI) and government market surveys or sources sought notices.
16. 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 implementing solutions using Salesforce, ServiceNow, Pega, Appian, and Microsoft Power platform.
• Experience with Data Analytics and modern data platforms.
• Experience using modern digital engineering practices to include MBSE knowledge on development or integration programs.

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 $122,200.00 - $220,900.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and 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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