Government Services CTO

Description

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers' success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

We use a wide range of capabilities in Digital Modernization, Mission Software Systems, and enabling technologies including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to support our customers' most critical and complex missions, from human spaceflight and polar science to energy research, nuclear security, environmental restoration, and the civilian systems that serve the public. Our team's focus is ensuring our Government Services customers have the right solutions to operate, sustain, and modernize the missions that the nation depends on.

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The Health and Services Sector Office of Technology at Leidos currently has an opening for a Government Services CTO to lead growth opportunities in our Government Services Business Area. This is an exciting opportunity to use industry experience to deliver innovative solutions that help our customers transform and modernize mission operations across NASA, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and federal civilian and state agencies.

The qualified candidate will function as the technical and strategic lead working with a broader cross-functional team to generate requirements through ongoing customer interactions, and then develop and assist in delivering solutions based on our customers' current and future needs across exploration, environment, energy, polar operations, and civilian mission markets.

In addition, the Government Services CTO will work as an interface between programs, customers, and Leidos Senior Management, ensuring Leidos Management understanding of customer domain, pain points, and strategy to drive business development and technology insertion initiatives, in order to ensure success of high-value capture and on-contract growth opportunities.

Preference is for this person to be local to the DC Metro area to be able to be in meetings in Reston, VA. Periodic travel to customer and program sites is expected.

Primary Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include engaging in customer shaping efforts, requirements gathering, and proposal support activities, leveraging understanding of industry trends and Leidos capabilities for solution development and system integration within the Government Services domain:

• Conduct market research and technology comparisons for mission operations, research enterprise, environmental, logistics, and civilian mission processes and tools, tracking industry trends and assessing technologies for fit within customer environments.

• Contribute to customer engagements with NASA, DOE/NNSA, NSF, USACE, NAVFAC, NOAA, USGS, and federal civilian and state health agencies; analyzing customer needs and aligning them with industry trends and Leidos solution offerings.

• Participate in opportunity shaping efforts to drive internal and external customer understanding of technical discriminators and assist in injecting Leidos technology discriminators into customer operations.

• Partner with Business Development staff to understand and participate in the development of new business strategy, assessing current and future skills and technology needs.

• Organizes project and task workloads and selects individuals most qualified for assignments on specific projects.

• Directs technical organization to ensure progress according to technical specifications, campaign strategies, and business objectives.

• Develop solutions that are highly innovative and achieved through research and integration of best practices, including mission operations, remote site and supply chain logistics, geospatial and environmental data, and secure enterprise IT.

• Participate in the identification of new technologies and lead investment projects focused on using those technologies to develop repeatable solutions that increase Leidos differentiation. Determine relevancy and customer impact of emerging technologies such as AI/ML, digital twins, autonomy, and advanced analytics across Government Services missions.

• Support customer and stakeholder meetings and technical discussions.

• Leading Internal Research and Development (IRAD)…