Leidos is a leading technology company that provides solutions for various sectors. The Solutions Engineer - Senior role involves translating enterprise mission needs into secure technology solutions, leading engineering activities, and driving data-informed decision-making for SEC stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Perform day-to-day solution engineering activities to identify technologies that meet SEC enterprise requirements
- Translate functional, operational, and business requirements into technical solution requirements and design criteria
- Develop architecture and engineering design approaches that align with SEC infrastructure, security, and operational objectives
- Collaborate with technical teams and stakeholders to ensure proposed solutions are feasible, scalable, and supportable
- Plan, execute, and document proof-of-concept efforts to validate candidate technologies
- Conduct pilots and technical demonstrations to evaluate solution suitability for SEC mission and operational use cases
- Define success criteria, test scenarios, and evaluation metrics for each PoC/pilot activity
- Summarize pilot findings, limitations, and implementation readiness for leadership decision support
- Evaluate tradeoffs between competing technical solutions using quantitative, criteria-based methods
- Build analysis of alternatives (AoA) artifacts that compare cost, risk, performance, security, and operational impact
- Produce recommendation papers that clearly document methods, alternatives considered, and rationale for selected options
- Identify follow-on engineering tasks, dependencies, and additional analysis needed before full implementation
- Produce clear technical documentation of architecture options, engineering results, pilot outcomes, and recommendations
- Present findings to SEC stakeholders and governance forums to support informed technology decisions
- Maintain traceability from requirements through evaluation, recommendation, and next-step actions
- Contribute to continuous improvement by incorporating lessons learned and updating supporting documentation
Requirements:
- This position is restricted to U.S. citizens only. Applicants must not hold dual citizenship with any other country to be eligible for work under this contract
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering). In lieu of degree, additional experience is required
- Ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust
- 8+ years of related experience providing business solutions engineering support in enterprise IT environments
- Experience in architectural design, engineering design, proof-of-concept development, pilot execution, analysis, results, and documentation
- Experience mapping functional requirements to technical requirements and producing formal recommendation artifacts
- Enterprise solution architecture and engineering design
- Functional-to-technical requirements mapping and traceability
- Proof-of-concept, pilot, and demo planning/execution
- Quantitative analysis of alternatives and tradeoff evaluation
- Technical writing, research documentation, and recommendation reporting
- Experience supporting federal IT programs and infrastructure modernization initiatives
- Experience applying zero-trust and federal security/compliance considerations (e.g., FISMA/FedRAMP) in solution evaluations
- Experience developing data-driven dashboards, metrics, or performance reporting to support technology decisions
- Experience evaluating cloud and hybrid enterprise technologies (e.g., Azure, Microsoft 365, endpoint/operations platforms)
- Experience briefing technical and non-technical stakeholders and facilitating governance-board decision cycles
- TOGAF
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- ITIL 4 Foundation