EXPERIENCE AND ABILITIES SOUGHT INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
- Technical Leadership– ability to work within a complex programme, solution and engineering ecosystem focussing on areas of responsibility but ensuring to keep the big picture in mind by building relationships within and outside the team.
- Design - accountable for a project specific High-Level Designs (HLDs) relating to the programme delivery which encompass multiple technologies and areas of expertise.
- Inclusive approach – the solution lead encourages people to speak freely, creates an environment of safety, listens to people, and advocates for change and innovation.
- Delivery focus - enabling and supporting the implementation of project elements, proof of concepts and other technical deliverables through to service acceptance.
- Collaborative mindset – working with the customer and end-users, programme leadership team, project management, technical area leads and engineers, security and service disciplines while aligned to SAFe-based iterative programme execution.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Technical Design
- Infrastructure design (on premise and ideally some cloud experience)
- Application integration, hosting, and support
- Modernisation of capability (Systems, Security, Applications, Platforms)
- Experience of infrastructure
- Virtualised and physical infrastructure
- Understanding of networking principles
- Storage technologies
- OS and Hypervisor management, including Microsoft, VMWare, and Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu)
- Data centre management principles
- Data and data infrastructure management
- End user environments (VMware, inc. Horizon)
- Technical documentation
- Security Architecture including Secure by Design
- Service Delivery and Project Management
- Experience of service management principles and frameworks
- Understanding of service automation
- Delivery using Agile project management
- Systems architecture
- Integration
- Solution Coherence
- Professional skills
- Ability to work under pressure in large multi discipline teams to tight schedules
- Comfortable working as part of a team, but also individually on multiple projects.
- Ability to influence architecture and engineering teams within a larger project
- Ability to engage with stakeholders from multiple areas of the business including product design, service design and operations
- Estimating and planning skills to support project and agile planning.
- Communication skills to produce written, verbal, and visual deliverables, explaining complex topics concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences
DESIRED SKILLS:
- Bid experience in public sector / defence an advantage
- Service Architecture and Design principles
- Knowledge and experience of software / application development and deployment
- Experience of Defence Architecture and Solution processes and methods
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)
- Dynamic Working
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.
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