Solution Manager

Leidos Inc; North Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 108,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Solution Manager to lead solution management across multiple Product Teams and Agile Release Trains for the Navy's SMIT program. You will translate stakeholder needs into vision, roadmaps, backlogs, and delivery plans while coordinating with business, engineering, and subcontractor teams to ensure aligned execution across infrastructure, applications, and cybersecurity.

You will oversee planning, execution, delivery, and operational transition of complex enterprise network

Qualifications

• Requires B.S. Degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience in IT, CS, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, network services, or enterprise IT delivery.
• Must be a US Citizen with an active Secret Security Clearance.
• Experience planning, provisioning, and delivering IT services for large organizations.
• Experience supporting DoD/federal government IT programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution management activities across multiple Product Teams and ARTs, defining vision, roadmap, backlog, and delivery priorities.
• Interface with stakeholders, leadership, architecture, engineering, subcontractors, and vendors for coordinated execution across infrastructure, applications, and cybersecurity.
• Oversee planning, execution, delivery, and operational transition of complex enterprise network services and infrastructure solutions.
• Translate requirements into operational plans, user stories, backlogs, schedules, and delivery commitments; support PI planning, demos, and status reporting.
• Accountable for scope, schedule, budget, risks, change management, and performance metrics across assigned work.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Doctorate

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Description

More About the Role:

The Service Management, Integration, and Transport (SMIT) is the largest IT services program for the Navy. Under SMIT the Leidos team will deliver the core backbone of the Naval Enterprise Network (NEN), including cybersecurity services, network operations, service desk, and data transport. In order to continually modernize these networks, the Navy and Marine Corps will award project Task Orders onto the SMIT contract.

What You'll Get to Do:

• The Solution Manager will lead solution management activities across multiple Product Teams and Agile Release Trains, defining and maintaining the solution vision, roadmap, capability backlog, and delivery priorities. This role serves as the primary interface among business stakeholders, customer representatives, program leadership, architecture teams, engineering teams, subcontractors, and vendors to ensure coordinated execution across infrastructure, application, and cybersecurity domains.
• The Solution Manager is responsible for leading the planning, execution, delivery, and operational transition of complex enterprise network services and infrastructure solutions. This role manages projects from initiation through final operational stage, ensuring alignment with customer requirements, mission priorities, business objectives, and enterprise technical roadmaps.
• Key responsibilities include translating customer and stakeholder requirements into actionable operational plans, user stories, backlogs, schedules, and delivery commitments. The Solution Manager will support Program Increment planning, solution demos, product status reporting, and executive communications while ensuring user stories meet quality standards such as INVEST criteria. The role is accountable for scope, schedule, budget, risks, opportunities, change management, and performance metrics across assigned task order work.
• This position requires strong leadership in resource planning, dependency management, customer engagement, subcontractor coordination, and cross-functional team execution. The Solution Manager will monitor project economics, staffing needs, operational budgets, risks, and delivery progress; facilitate status reviews; support proposals, bids, estimates, contracts, and schedules; and recommend alternatives when project performance, cost, or schedule issues arise.
• The Solution Manager is also responsible for ensuring adherence to contractual and legally binding requirements, maintaining alignment with internal and customer-facing solution management practices, and establishing clear paths for ongoing operations, vendor maintenance agreements, decommissioning plans, or follow-on contract efforts. This role requires the ability to build enduring customer relationships, communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, and coach teams to meet established objectives while resolving technical, operational, and delivery challenges.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

• Requires B.S. Degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience (in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience in lieu of education). May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.
• 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, network services, enterprise IT delivery, or related technology services.
• Must be a US Citizen and possess an active Secret Security Clearance.
• Demonstrated experience planning, provisioning, and delivering information technology services for large organizations.
• Experience supporting mission-critical, DoD, federal, or government IT programs.

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• Master's degree in engineering, computer science, business management, or other related field.
• Experience working in Agile or SAFe environments, including Agile leadership, facilitation, planning, and delivery coordination.
• Experience with Azure DevOps.
• SAFe certification, such as SAFe Agilist, SAFe Product Manager/Product Owner, or SAFe Program Consultant.
• Experience managing large-scale contract transitions and associated transition of services.
• Ability to travel to customer site as needed.

NGEN

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 9, 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 $107,900.00 - $195,050.00

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.

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.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

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.