Chief Architect

Description

Leidos is seeking a Chief Architect for a 200+ FTE technical development program supporting the Sponsor's Entitlement Programs as well as Sponsor's IdAM / ICAM, Authentication, Authorization, Attributes and Digital Policy Management. The Chief Architect supports existing systems and provides the guidance to build new technologies. Will lead the teams through the planning, organizing, development and delivery of capabilities for the Sponsor's mission.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Develops and maintains Technical Roadmaps to support customer Mission Requirements
• Develops and communicates technical strategies in support of customer Mission Requirements
• Identifies and communicates Innovations and new concepts to enhance operational systems
• Collaborates across organizational Divisions on technical architecture concepts and implementation patterns
• Designing technical solutions to meet technical and business needs by leveraging knowledge of programming languages, architecture, and technology to support requirements
• Employs practices to improve collaboration between development and operations teams; this includes continuous integration and delivery, automation, infrastructure as code, and monitoring.
• Creates comprehensive technical solutions that address mission needs or optimize processes.
• Ensure designs are compatible with the architecture and allocated requirements to Organizational Divisions
• Address user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate and improve existing systems and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
• Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, cost estimation, requirements allocation, and interfaced definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications
• Identify system integrity issues and solutions for the full system life cycles from concept to disposal
• Integrate systems and services
• Summarize and communicate results
• Support the development, documentation, and execution of system policies
• Works to achieve key project / program objectives and deliverables.
• Works to influence project / team leaders regarding solution design, process and / or approaches.
• Requires expert knowledge of and ability to apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts.

REQUIREMENTS :

Original Posting : July 7, 2025

For U.S. Positions : 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 $126,100.00 - $227,950.00

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.