Solutions Engineer - Senior

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