Remote Director of Tech Operations & Sustainment

Leidos Inc; United States; On-site; USD 154,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos Energy | Homeland Sector | Technology seeks a Director of Technology Operations & Sustainment to lead the organization responsible for the current technology baseline, ensuring reliability, security, and support across energy operations. You will steer lifecycle management, drive simplification, and own the technology roadmap post-deployment to meet evolving business needs.

The role requires guiding a multidisciplinary team, translating business needs into technology priorities, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or a related technical discipline and 12+ years of relevant professional experience; equivalent combination of education and experience considered.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing technical organizations and multidisciplinary teams, including developing technical leaders.
• Demonstrated leadership of significant operational technology capabilities and experience improving how a technical or engineering workforce uses technology to perform its work.
• Ability to translate employee and business needs into technology priorities and communicate technology choices, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to senior business and technical leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to simplify complex technology environments and lead across organizational boundaries, including responsibility for significant technology resources, investments, and external providers.

Responsibilities

• Own the operation, sustainment, and lifecycle management of Business Area-owned technology.
• Ensure critical capabilities are reliable, secure, resilient, supportable, and appropriate for Energy's needs.
• Simplify the technology environment by addressing obsolescence, unnecessary complexity, fragmentation, and technical debt.
• Assume ongoing ownership of new or improved capabilities following successful deployment and transition into the technology baseline.
• Develop a strong understanding of how Energy employees use technology to perform engineering, technical, and business work.
• Identify and remove technology-related friction, capability gaps, and barriers to effective work.
• Improve workflows through better use of existing capabilities, automation, simplification, and user enablement.
• Use operational experience and employee feedback to identify opportunities requiring more significant changes to the technology baseline.
• Establish priorities based on business impact, operational risk, user needs, and technology health.
• Partner with Innovation & Deployment when significant changes or new capabilities are required.
• Manage the organization, portfolio, resources, investments, and external providers necessary to deliver the mission.
• Provide the Energy CTO and Business Area leadership with clear insight into technology health, risks, priorities, and investment needs.
• Build an effective, engaged team by bringing together existing capabilities, developing people and leaders, and creating opportunities for talent across the combined Energy organization.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication to senior leaders

Program and project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, IT or related

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

Leidos Energy | Homeland Sector | Technology seeks a Director of Technology Operations & Sustainment to lead the organization responsible for the current technology baseline, ensuring reliability, security, and support across energy operations. You will steer lifecycle management, drive simplification, and own the technology roadmap post-deployment to meet evolving business needs.

The role requires guiding a multidisciplinary team, translating business needs into technology priorities, and