Senior Solutions Architect - Cloud, Security & IC Mission

Leidos; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 142,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking an accomplished Solutions Architect SME to lead end-to-end solution architecture for the Chinook Program, spanning application, cloud, data, integration, security, and infrastructure domains.

The role demands strategic and hands-on leadership, translating complex mission requirements into secure, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions while guiding multiple engineering teams through architectural direction and trade studies.

Qualifications

• US citizenship is required per contract.
• 12+ years of progressive experience as a Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect, Systems Architect, Software Architect, or equivalent senior technical role.
• Significant experience designing and implementing complex enterprise or mission-critical applications.
• Strong experience with software architecture, distributed systems, system integration, APIs, data, and cloud technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex requirements into executable technical solutions.
• Experience collaborating across software engineering, systems engineering, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and testing organizations.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud and software engineering practices.
• Experience with technical architecture documentation, design reviews, architecture decision records, and technical roadmaps.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams and influencing engineering strategy.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical authority for the application, defining and evolving end-to-end solution architecture across application, cloud, data, integration, security, and infrastructure domains.
• Translate mission, business, operational, functional, and non-functional requirements into secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Develop architecture strategies, roadmaps, reference architectures, and design patterns, and lead trade studies to recommend solutions based on mission value, feasibility, risk, cost, performance, and maintainability.
• Provide technical direction to engineering teams, review designs, resolve cross-team technical issues, and ensure implementation aligns with approved architecture and standards.
• Lead cloud and DevSecOps architecture efforts, including cloud-native design, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated deployment, observability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
• Integrate security and mission assurance into architecture decisions from the start of the development lifecycle, including risk identification and mitigation.
• Support Agile and SAFe execution through PI Planning, backlog refinement, architecture runway development, dependency management, and release readiness activities.
• Define and govern integration strategies, API and interface standards, and interoperability approaches across application components and external systems.
• Communicate architecture decisions, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to program leadership, customer stakeholders, and technical teams in terms of mission and business impact.
• Mentor engineers and technical leaders, promote engineering excellence and continuous improvement, and drive modernization and reduction of technical debt.

Skills

Solutions Architect

Enterprise Architect

Systems Architect

Software Architect

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

CI/CD

Job description

Leidos is seeking an accomplished Solutions Architect SME to lead end-to-end solution architecture for the Chinook Program, spanning application, cloud, data, integration, security, and infrastructure domains.

The role demands strategic and hands-on leadership, translating complex mission requirements into secure, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions while guiding multiple engineering teams through architectural direction and trade studies.