Mission Integration Lead

Leidos Inc; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos Inc. is seeking a Mission Integration Lead to advance the Navy NMCI programs under the SMIT initiative. This role focuses on vulnerability management and the replacement of EOL/EOS hardware and software across the Naval Enterprise Network.

You will recruit, staff, and coordinate with the government to plan complex IT remediation, manage a rolling 4-week/12-week schedule, and ensure secure, timely site access and deployments. Travel to customer engagements is required.

Qualifications

• Requires BA/BS Degree and 8+ years managing large IT programs.
• U.S. Citizen with active DOD Secret clearance.
• Experience in program management including cost, schedule, and performance.
• Experience leading large, geographically dispersed teams.
• Experience communicating with senior executives and direct accountability for managed activities.
• Experience proposing and coordinating corporate proposals.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to travel to support in-person engagements.
• Experience managing relationships with senior DoD/Government customers.

Responsibilities

• Recruiting and staffing activities on SMIT with focus on vulnerability management.
• Develops and tracks staffing metrics (openings, onboard rate, lead times, turnover).
• Coordinate with the government to plan human logistics for IT remediation projects.
• Maintain the relationship with Government Access Lead and mission owners.
• Publish rolling master schedule (4-week firm / 12-week planning).
• Manage the human side of deployments: site access, maintenance windows, post-deployment verification.
• Build site access profiles and measure credential/authorization lead times.
• Provide site access go/no-go recommendations.
• Adjudicate competing window demands and resource reallocations.
• Communicate program-related information to NMCI leadership.

Skills

Program leadership

DoD clearance

People management

Communication skills

Proposal development

Travel readiness

Customer relationship management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Description

The SMIT program is developing a vulnerability management solution focused on the replacement of EOL/EOS hardware and software across the Naval Enterprise Network. Leidos currently has an opening for Mission Integration Lead for this effort. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to help advance the Navy's mission. SMIT is the largest IT services program for the Navy. Under SMIT, the Leidos team will deliver the core backbone of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), including cybersecurity services, network operations, service desk, and data transport. Ultimately, Leidos will support the Navy in unifying its shore-based networks and data management to improve capability and service while also saving significant dollars by focusing efforts under one enterprise network.

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for recruiting and staffing activities on SMIT with a specific focus on vulnerability management activities.
• Develops and tracks staffing metrics - number of openings, percent on-board, lead times, turnover, etc.
• Coordinate with the government to plan human logistics for complex IT remediation projects within the assigned locations setting priorities for resources to meet or exceed scheduled deployments.
• Maintains the relationship with the Government Access Lead and mission owners.
• Owns and publishes the rolling master schedule (4-week firm / 12-week planning).
• Owns everything on the human side of deployments: site access, securing maintenance windows, and confirming afterward that the mission still works.
• Builds the site access profile for each site and measures actual lead times for every credential and authorization type:
  • Base/installation entry authorization (VAR, base access, building access, etc.)
  • Badge or credential validity for the specific facility
  • Escorts identified, available, and present
  • Facility and room access at the specific time
  • Claimant approval of the outage window
  • Freeze calendar clear (change freeze, exercise, inspection, mission event, holiday)
  • Physical access to the rack (keys, cages, adjacent-tenant coordination)
• Provides the site access go/no-go recommendation.
• Adjudicatescompeting window demands across sites.
• Escalates access constraints to the Government Access Lead.
• Adjudicates resource reallocation between competing sites.
• Communicate critical and time sensitive program-related information directly to senior NMCI leadership.
• Build and leverage strong relationships both with the customer and with Leidos peers to develop and execute risk mitigations and issue resolutions.
• Elicits and documents impact thresholds and verification criteria from each mission owner.
• Establishes the claimant fatigue index definition and baselines it.

Basic Qualifications

• Requires BA/BS Degree in a related field, and 8 plus years combined experience managing large, complex programs information technology programs. Generally has 7+ years of experience supervising or leading teams or projects.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess an active DOD Secret Security Clearance.
• Prior programmatic (cost, schedule, and performance) experience managing programs or task orders.
• Experienced people manager, leading large, geographically dispersed teams.
• Experience developing and delivering communications with the supported organization's senior executives and direct accountability for managed activities.
• Work proposals, coordinate with corporate and program personnel to deliver a corporate approved proposal.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to succinctly convey ideas.
• Ability to drive team culture with emphasis on Leidos leadership values and behaviors.
• Experience managing relationships with senior DoD/Government customers.
• Ability to travel to support in person customer engagements.

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• Ability to obtain a Top Secret Security Clearance.
• Prior Navy, NGEN or SMIT experience highly preferable.
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) project management experience/certification.

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:

September 24, 2026

Pay Range:

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

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.

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.

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