Senior Solutions Architect SME for Mission-Critical IC

Leidos; Englewood (CO); On-site; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking an exceptional Solutions Architect SME to join the Chinook Program, serving as the senior technical authority for the application and its ecosystem. You will influence architecture, lead across software and cloud domains, and translate mission requirements into secure, scalable engineering solutions.

In this role you’ll partner with engineering, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and program leadership to drive architecture runway, promote modernization, and mentor teams while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science or related field and 12–15 years of experience or Master’s with 10–13 years.
• 12+ years progressively in Solutions/Enterprise/Systems/Software architecture roles.
• Experience designing complex enterprise or mission-critical applications.
• Strong cloud and software engineering practices with API, data, and integration focus.
• Ability to translate requirements into executable technical solutions and lead cross‑team efforts.

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

Cloud architecture

DevSecOps leadership

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Azure Resource Manager

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Job description

Leidos is seeking an exceptional Solutions Architect SME to join the Chinook Program, serving as the senior technical authority for the application and its ecosystem. You will influence architecture, lead across software and cloud domains, and translate mission requirements into secure, scalable engineering solutions.

In this role you’ll partner with engineering, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and program leadership to drive architecture runway, promote modernization, and mentor teams while