Chief Engineer, Enterprise IT Modernization (AEGIS)

Leidos; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

The Leidos Digital Sector seeks a Chief Engineer to lead engineering strategy and execution across technologies and products within the AEGIS program. Based at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL (or Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL), the role shapes modernization initiatives, guides major upgrades, and drives enterprise IT toward NASA's evolving mission needs.

You will build and mentor a large engineering team, translate agency objectives into actionable plans, and

Qualifications

• Seasoned leader with broad enterprise IT domain experience.
• Experience delivering large-scale modernization and service upgrades.
• Ability to translate agency objectives into actionable priorities.
• Proven people leadership and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering across all AEGIS technologies including data centers, cloud, networking, VoIP, cybersecurity, and collaboration services.
• Build relationships with senior NASA and Leidos leadership to align with agency priorities.
• Continuously assess enterprise baselines and recommend modernization improvements.
• Translate NASA OCIO and Office of Engineering objectives into actionable 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.
• 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.
• 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 issues.

Job description

The Leidos Digital Sector seeks a Chief Engineer to lead engineering strategy and execution across technologies and products within the AEGIS program. Based at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL (or Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL), the role shapes modernization initiatives, guides major upgrades, and drives enterprise IT toward NASA's evolving mission needs.

You will build and mentor a large engineering team, translate agency objectives into actionable plans, and