Chief Engineer, Enterprise IT Modernization

Koitecc Solutions; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos’ Digital Sector at NASA’s AE GIS program seeks a Chief Engineer to lead engineering strategy and execution across data centers, cloud, networking, VoIP, and cybersecurity. This role is based at NASA facilities in Huntsville, AL or Cape Canaveral, FL with a strong preference for on-site work.

You’ll guide modernization efforts, mentor a large engineering team, and align technology roadmaps with NASA and Leidos leaders to ensure mission readiness and service excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of relevant IT leadership experience.
• Experience managing large engineering teams in IT organizations.
• Proven ability to translate objectives into actionable priorities and milestones.
• Experience with agile development programs.
• Strong budgeting, planning, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to brief NASA and Leidos senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering across all AEGIS technologies including data centers, cloud, networking, VoIP, cybersecurity, and collaboration services.
• Build strong relationships with senior NASA and Leidos leadership to ensure alignment with agency priorities.
• Continuously assess enterprise baselines and recommend improvements to support modernization.
• Translate NASA OCIO and Office of Engineering objectives into actionable engineering priorities, plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure daily engineering work remains aligned with long term organizational goals.
• Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team supporting networking, firewalls, VoIP, data centers, and cloud services across NASA.
• Foster a culture of innovation, learning, and technical excellence.
• Mentor engineers at all levels on career growth, skills, and technical decision making.
• Communicate clear expectations, provide timely feedback, and model strong leadership behaviors.
• Promote collaboration across engineering, architecture, security, operations, and program leadership.
• Cultivate accountability, transparency, and a strong customer service mindset.
• Ensure actions have clear owners, due dates, and follow through, reducing tactical burden on the government Engineering Office.
• Perform systems analysis and planning to support NASA’s infrastructure strategy.
• Develop feasibility studies, trend analyses, business cases, benchmarks, and strategic roadmaps.
• Understand contract technical requirements and guide the team toward solutions meeting user needs and contract obligations.
• Review emerging technologies and assess impacts on NASA architectures, standards, and long term service evolution.
• Lead design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and logistics activities.
• Maintain visibility across engineering projects, initiatives, studies, modernization efforts, and operational work.
• Provide leadership with clear views of status, schedules, dependencies, risks, constraints, and required decisions.
• Assess infrastructure impacts of new requirements and NASA network expansions.
• Operate network technology labs for asset management, testing, standards evaluation, requirements analysis, and technology investigation.
• Recommend standards for implementing new services across NASA.
• Ensure engineering coordination across networks, telecommunications, cable plant, data centers, cloud, cybersecurity, and voice/video.
• Identify dependencies and prevent cross-domain engineering conflicts.
• Support AEGIS program governance to ensure new technologies align with NASA’s direction.
• Participate in NASA IT policy, architecture, standards, and process reviews; recommend updates to maintain AEGIS compliance.
• Establish consistent engineering practices including design reviews, documentation, standards, configuration management, change control, peer reviews, and decision records.
• Ensure engineering consistency across technical areas.
• Advise the Program Manager on impacts to stability, cost, architecture, interoperability or compatibility, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Implement structured methods for identifying, prioritizing, escalating, and resolving risks and issues.
• Inform NASA and Leidos leadership early when risks may affect mission or service delivery.
• Develop strategic and implementation plans guiding the future of AEGIS services.
• Assess IT innovations, product releases, and technology changes to introduce new capabilities and retire outdated ones.
• Support development of comprehensive technology roadmaps capturing customer requirements and service evolution.
• Maintain the Five-Year Hardware Lifecycle Plan for AEGIS-supported hardware.
• Maintain strong connections with the Leidos Digital Sector CTO and Solutions Architect organizations to leverage enterprise expertise.
• Support program growth by shaping innovative technical solutions and recommending improvements to services and operating models.

Skills

Leadership

Attention to detail

Deadline-driven

Analytical skills

Budgeting

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Agile experience

Communication with leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Network Solutions

Data Center Technologies

Cloud Architectures

Collaboration Services

Job description

Leidos’ Digital Sector at NASA’s AE GIS program seeks a Chief Engineer to lead engineering strategy and execution across data centers, cloud, networking, VoIP, and cybersecurity. This role is based at NASA facilities in Huntsville, AL or Cape Canaveral, FL with a strong preference for on-site work.

You’ll guide modernization efforts, mentor a large engineering team, and align technology roadmaps with NASA and Leidos leaders to ensure mission readiness and service excellence.