CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS:

Applicants must be willing to hold and maintain UK SC with the ability to be DV cleared if required in the future.

WHAT WE DO FOR YOU:

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Flexi-Time

WHO WE ARE:

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.
Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

As the Leidos UK Chief Solution Architect you will provide technical leadership and Solution Architecture services into the Leidos UK Office of technology. The role covers five key areas:

The role covers five key areas:

• Provide solution oversight and assurance for all major captures.
• Act as solution architect lead for all Internal research and development (IRAD) investments providing guidance to Principal Investigators and helping to ensure IRAD is executed in a way it can be quickly adopted by target programmes.
• Maintain the technical strategy for Leidos in the UK.
• Lead the development and maintenance of TechRadars; a tool to help select preferred and proven technologies within logically organised categories, promoting reuse and reducing the level of training required.
• Work with programmes during mobilisation to identify solution elements that are valuable and should be captured and stored in our knowledge repository, LeidoScope, for reuse.

The successful candidate is expected to have broad knowledge of a large range of technical capabilities and technologies including hardware, software, AI & Data, networks, cloud, IT services and cyber security.