Systems Engineer - SME

Leidos is seeking a Subject Matter Expert I to support the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) Center of Excellence supporting Portfolio Governance, Architecture, Data Integration, and Dev Ops.

The Subject Matter Expert I will provide specialized technical expertise to design and integrate systems, develop and maintain architecture artifacts, evaluate solution alternatives, support portfolio and technology governance, and help OJP product teams implement secure, interoperable, accessible, and cost-effective capabilities. The role will bridge business requirements, Customer Experience and Human-Centered Design (CX/HCD), architecture standards, data integration, cloud and Development, Security, and Operations (Dev Sec Ops ) practices, and engineering execution in support of OJP digital-service modernization.

• Design and integrate systems, applications, platforms, application programming interfaces (APIs), data services, and supporting technical capabilities within assigned areas of expertise.
• Support enterprise, application, data, solution, technical, and business architecture activities and develop architecture diagrams, models, standards, interface definitions, recommendations, and implementation guidance.
• Administer and maintain approved content within OJP's existing Enterprise Architecture Repository, including content management, user support, architecture-artifact maintenance, and integration support with Service Now.
• Develop and support Alternatives Analyses for IT Demand requests, tools, platforms, and technical approaches using criteria such as business value, user impact, strategic alignment, cost, feasibility, security, accessibility, risk, and operational impact.
• Develop product, platform, solution, and technology roadmaps and recommendations aligned to OJP current-state and target-state architectures.
• Support functional data management within Service Now Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM), including fiscal calendars, templates, functional metadata, and applicable product, portfolio, demand, project, and change-management information as directed by OJP.
• Incorporate Customer Experience and Human-Centered Design practices into Business Analysis and requirements-gathering activities so customer needs are reflected in proposed solutions.
• Support OJP governance forums, including the Portfolio Review Board, Architecture Review Board, Standards Working Group, Engineering Review Board, Product Steering Groups, and other authorized forums, through preparation of advance materials and agendas, meeting facilitation, minutes, action-item tracking, SharePoint posting, and stakeholder communications.
• Support IT change-management and enterprise IT risk-management activities through analysis, coordination, documentation, tracking, and governance support.
• Support secure data integration and API architecture using applicable web-service, authentication, authorization, and provisioning standards and coordinate with DIAMD, networking, security, and other OJP product teams as appropriate.
• Partner with engineering and Dev Ops teams to incorporate cloud architecture, Infrastructure as Code, compliance-as-code, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, resilience, and cost optimization into solution designs.
• Analyze current-state technologies and identify opportunities to reduce duplicative products, standardize technologies, simplify integration, improve interoperability, and reduce lifecycle cost.
• Conduct technical research, prototypes, pilots, and code-based proofs of concept involving emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, cloud computing, blockchain, low-code or no-code, and Dev Ops capabilities.
• Develop architecture documentation, standards, knowledge articles, case studies, decision materials, roadmaps, and recommendations and communicate them clearly to technical and business stakeholders.
• Provide coaching and knowledge transfer to OJP stakeholders on architecture, product, Agile, engineering, data-integration, and related technical practices.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience, consistent with applicable labor-category requirements.
• Minimum eight (8) years of progressively responsible experience designing, integrating,…