Engineering Manager

Leidos Australia; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexibility

Wellbeing programs

Extensive courses

Impactful projects

Career development

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking an experienced engineering leader to guide multidisciplinary teams across complex projects and operational environments. You will create conditions for teams to deliver quality outcomes by aligning people, priorities, governance and resources with program and customer needs.

In this role, you will lead engineering delivery, develop capability, and partner with program leaders to manage priorities and dependencies.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering or technical teams in a complex project, product or operational environment.
• Capability in workforce planning, resource prioritisation, coaching and professional capability development.
• Knowledge of engineering lifecycle, technical governance, assurance, risk and quality management practices.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering activities across competing priorities and dependencies.
• Ability to engage customers, senior leaders, delivery teams and technical specialists.
• Ability to communicate technical and delivery matters clearly and support timely decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead, support and develop engineering teams, including workforce planning, capability development and allocation of specialist resources.
• Oversee engineering delivery, ensuring technical activities are appropriately planned, governed and aligned with schedule, quality and risk expectations.
• Partner with program leaders, customers and technical authorities to resolve priorities, dependencies and engineering challenges.
• Improve engineering frameworks, assurance practices, knowledge sharing and collaboration across disciplines and delivery teams.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Workforce planning

Resource prioritisation

Technical governance

Risk management

Quality management

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

About Leidos Australia

At Leidos Australia, our work goes beyond a job title. We design, build, operate and support the systems, services and capabilities that help protect and advance the Australian way of life.

Description

At Leidos Australia, our work goes beyond a job title. We design, build, operate and support the systems, services and capabilities that help protect and advance the Australian way of life.

Backed by a global organisation of more than 40,000 people, our Australian team of around 2,000 has partnered with government, defence and national security customers for more than 30 years. We deliver mission-critical solutions where reliability, trust and purpose matter.

Benefits

• Flex Your Way – Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.
• Wellbeing That Matters – Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.
• Learn Without Limits – Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.
• Work That Makes an Impact – Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.
• Build Your Future – Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.
• And Much More – These are just a few of the ways we invest in our people and help them thrive.

About The Team

You’ll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration and commitment. In practice, that means sharing ownership, solving complex problems together and staying connected to the customer context, the purpose behind the work and how each role contributes to meaningful outcomes.

Mission Software Systems (MSS) brings together expertise across intelligence, software, and cloud to deliver end-to-end capability supporting the full intelligence lifecycle, from planning through to dissemination and feedback. The team fosters a culture of innovation, leveraging modern engineering practices and shared infrastructure to rapidly build, test, and deploy software solutions across a range of environments, including cloud. MSS also plays a key role in advancing technology modernisation within Government, delivering scalable and adaptable solutions for complex enterprise challenges.

The Opportunity

In this role, you will lead multidisciplinary engineering capability across complex projects and operational environments. You will create the conditions for teams to deliver quality outcomes by aligning people, technical priorities, governance and resources with program and customer needs.

• Lead, support and develop engineering teams, including workforce planning, capability development and allocation of specialist resources.
• Oversee engineering delivery, ensuring technical activities are appropriately planned, governed and aligned with schedule, quality and risk expectations.
• Partner with program leaders, customers and technical authorities to resolve priorities, dependencies and engineering challenges.
• Improve engineering frameworks, assurance practices, knowledge sharing and collaboration across disciplines and delivery teams.

About You

You bring experience leading technical teams and understand how people leadership, engineering governance and delivery performance work together. You can provide direction while enabling specialists to exercise their expertise and professional judgement.

Essential

• Experience leading engineering or technical teams in a complex project, product or operational environment.
• Capability in workforce planning, resource prioritisation, coaching and professional capability development.
• Knowledge of engineering lifecycle, technical governance, assurance, risk and quality management practices.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering activities across competing priorities and dependencies.
• Ability to engage customers, senior leaders, delivery teams and technical specialists.
• Ability to communicate technical and delivery matters clearly and support timely decision-making.

Advantageous

• Experience leading geographically dispersed or matrixed engineering teams.
• Knowledge of systems engineering, Agile delivery or DevSecOps practices.
• Exposure to regulated, safety-critical, defence or mission-focused environments.

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold an active NV-1 security clearance.

Due to the nature of our work, applicants must be Australian Citizens and be eligible to obtain and maintain the security clearance required for the role. Certain roles may be subject International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements which may limit persons who hold dual nationality with certain proscribed countries from accessing material, or in the case of dual Australian-U.S citizens, may require the candidate to obtain a U.S. Persons Abroad authorisation from the U.S DDTC.

Original Posting

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

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.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay And Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Securing Your Data

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If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.