Hybrid Chief Software Engineer

at Leidos

• Job title: Chief Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $154,050 - $278,475 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Microservices, Oracle
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Odenton, United States

About the role

• Chief Software Architect leading enterprise software architecture for DoD missions at Leidos. Driving cloud architectures and ensuring security and scalability while mentoring technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise software architecture and design for DoW and DISA mission systems, including reference architecture, solution patterns, and technical standards.
• Partner with Task Order technical leadership to ensure implementation of software development best practices, standards, guidelines and drive consistency and best practices across business area.
• Drive innovation and industry trend awareness; Leading teams in DevOps & Agile best practices and mentor and guide technical teams, fostering innovation and excellence to improve quality, velocity, and operational outcomes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define system requirements and translate them into solutions to ensure the security, scalability, and sustainability of all systems; Translating system requirements into secure, scalable solutions.
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies into architectures supporting both mission and business driven outcomes.
• Partner with the CTO organization to drive innovation, create of roadmaps, and invigorate thought leadership within the customer domain.
• Maintain and forward-looking perspective on industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Work with Business Development teams by shaping technical strategies, solution architectures, and win themes for new opportunities and on-contract growth.
• Define development processes, target metrics, and best practices to enable repeatable delivery and effective knowledge transfer. Ensuring security best practices are integrated into the development lifecycle, including compliance with data protection regulations.
• Deliver executive-level technical briefings to customer and internal leadership, communicating architecture decisions, risks, tradeoffs, and progress.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field with 17+ years of experience or a Master's degree with 15+ years of experience.
• Candidates should possess a DoD Clearance at the Top Secret level with the ability to obtain a SCI w/Poly preferred.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages, cloud computing, distributed systems, and microservices architecture;
• In-depth knowledge of system architecture, design patterns, and best practices.
• Proficiency in cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or Oracle Cloud), distributed systems, and microservices architecture.
• Experience with data architectures and pipelines for structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data across various data repositories and data lakes.
• Experience with front-end technologies, UI/UX design, and DevSecOps tools, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience leading technical delivery in Agile environments, including Scrum ceremonies and experience with Agile work management tools such as JIRA and Confluence with an emphasis on operability and repeatable deployment.
• Strong problem-solving, organizational, and exceptional communication and presentation skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with customers, cross-functional teams, and stakeholders.
• Self-starter with the ability to engage with government stakeholders, program, and corporate senior leadership to develop and drive alignment, resolve complex technical issues, and make defensible decisions.

Benefits

• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement