Director, Innovation & Deployment

Via Logic LLC; United States; Remote; USD 154,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos Energy seeks a Director, Innovation & Deployment to shape the technology organization for the combined Leidos Energy business, uniting Leidos and ENTRUST capabilities. You will lead rapid development, testing, and deployment of evidence-backed capabilities with a focus on operational value and scalable impact.

You will collaborate with Operations & Sustainment, drive a repeatable approach to move from problem to deployed capability, and report progress and realized value to Energy CTO and

Responsibilities

• Identify and Prioritize Opportunities: Engage with employees, business leaders, and technical teams to identify problems and opportunities where technology can materially improve outcomes.
• Identify and Prioritize Opportunities: Consider existing Leidos and Energy capabilities alongside commercial, partner, and emerging technologies.
• Identify and Prioritize Opportunities: Prioritize opportunities based on expected value, feasibility, risk, implementation effort, and ability to scale.
• Identify and Prioritize Opportunities: Rapidly determine whether opportunities demonstrate sufficient value to scale, redirect, or stop investment.
• Develop Working Solutions: Lead rapid development, experimentation, prototyping, and testing to generate evidence and reduce uncertainty.
• Develop Working Solutions: Determine when to build, buy, configure, integrate, partner, or reuse existing capabilities.
• Develop Working Solutions: Apply the technology most appropriate to the problem rather than favoring novelty for its own sake.
• Develop Working Solutions: Incorporate users and operational realities throughout development.
• Deploy and Transition Capabilities: Own the path from identified opportunity through operational deployment-not simply prototype or demonstration.
• Deploy and Transition Capabilities: Address the technical, security, workflow, adoption, and organizational requirements necessary for successful use.
• Deploy and Transition Capabilities: Partner with Operations & Sustainment throughout development to ensure successful capabilities are ready for transition into ongoing operation and support.
• Deploy and Transition Capabilities: Transition successful capabilities into the sustained technology baseline and stop or redirect initiatives when evidence does not support continued investment.
• Lead Innovation & Deployment: Establish a repeatable approach that reduces the time and friction required to move from problem to evidence to deployed capability.
• Lead Innovation & Deployment: Manage the organization, portfolio, resources, investments, and partnerships necessary to deliver the mission.
• Lead Innovation & Deployment: Provide the Energy CTO and Business Area leadership with clear insight into opportunities, progress, risk, investment, and realized value.
• Lead Innovation & Deployment: Build an effective, engaged team by bringing together existing capabilities, developing people and leaders, and creating opportunities for talent across the combined Energy organization.
• Leadership Expectations: Start with the problem, not the technology.
• Leadership Expectations: Bias toward working solutions.
• Leadership Expectations: Own deployment.
• Leadership Expectations: Learn and simplify.
• Leadership Expectations: Operate as one technology organization.

Job description

Leidos Energy | Homeland Sector | Technology

The Director, Innovation & Deployment leads the organization responsible for evolving how Leidos Energy creates and delivers differentiated value through technology. The team identifies opportunities to improve the business and its market value proposition through new technology, better application of existing technology, and changes to how technology is used, develops and tests solutions, communicates value propositions internally and externally, and deploys successful capabilities into operational use.

The opportunity is to build a repeatable capability for turning promising ideas and technology into operational advantage-moving quickly from problem to evidence to deployed solution. This leader will help shape the technology organization for the combined Leidos Energy business, bringing together the capabilities, experience, and strengths of Leidos and ENTRUST.

Success is measured by valuable capabilities reaching operational use and producing meaningful improvement-not by the number of technologies evaluated or prototypes produced.

Key Responsibilities

Identify and Prioritize Opportunities

• Engage with employees, business leaders, and technical teams to identify problems and opportunities where technology can materially improve outcomes.
• Consider existing Leidos and Energy capabilities alongside commercial, partner, and emerging technologies.
• Prioritize opportunities based on expected value, feasibility, risk, implementation effort, and ability to scale.
• Rapidly determine whether opportunities demonstrate sufficient value to scale, redirect, or stop investment.

Develop Working Solutions

• Lead rapid development, experimentation, prototyping, and testing to generate evidence and reduce uncertainty.
• Determine when to build, buy, configure, integrate, partner, or reuse existing capabilities.
• Apply the technology most appropriate to the problem rather than favoring novelty for its own sake.
• Incorporate users and operational realities throughout development.

Deploy and Transition Capabilities

• Own the path from identified opportunity through operational deployment-not simply prototype or demonstration.
• Address the technical, security, workflow, adoption, and organizational requirements necessary for successful use.
• Partner with Operations & Sustainment throughout development to ensure successful capabilities are ready for transition into ongoing operation and support.
• Transition successful capabilities into the sustained technology baseline and stop or redirect initiatives when evidence does not support continued investment.

Lead Innovation & Deployment

• Establish a repeatable approach that reduces the time and friction required to move from problem to evidence to deployed capability.
• Manage the organization, portfolio, resources, investments, and partnerships necessary to deliver the mission.
• Provide the Energy CTO and Business Area leadership with clear insight into opportunities, progress, risk, investment, and realized value.
• Build an effective, engaged team by bringing together existing capabilities, developing people and leaders, and creating opportunities for talent across the combined Energy organization.

Leadership Expectations

• Start with the problem, not the technology. Select technology based on the outcome to be improved, not its novelty.
• Bias toward working solutions. Learn quickly through building, testing, and evidence.
• Own deployment. Innovation creates value when capabilities reach operational use.
• Learn and simplify. Scale what works, change or stop what does not, and avoid unnecessary technology complexity.
• Operate as one technology organization. Apply capabilities and resources across team and organizational boundaries to achieve the best business outcome.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

October 2, 2026

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 $154,050.00 - $278,475.00

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.

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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.

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