Stakeholder Engagement Lead

About Leidos Australia At Leidos Australia, our work goes beyond a job title. We design, build, operate and support the systems, services and capabilities that help protect and advance the Australian way of life. Backed by a global organisation of more than 40,000 people, our Australian team of around 2,000 has partnered with government, defence and national security customers for more than 30 years. We deliver mission-critical solutions where reliability, trust and purpose matter. Leidos is a destination for people who want their work to have purpose, their contribution to be recognised, and their career to grow without needing to fit a single mould. Meaningful work is supported by benefits, flexibility and career pathways that help you grow while balancing life outside work. This includes: Flex Your Way – Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours. Wellbeing That Matters – Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing. Learn Without Limits – Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities. Work That Makes an Impact – Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities. Build Your Future – Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way. And Much More – These are just a few of the ways we invest in our people and help them thrive.

You’ll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration and commitment. In practice, that means sharing ownership, solving complex problems together and staying connected to the customer context, the purpose behind the work and how each role contributes to meaningful outcomes. Mission Software Systems (MSS) brings together expertise across intelligence, software, and cloud to deliver end-to-end capability supporting the full intelligence lifecycle, from planning through to dissemination and feedback. The team fosters a culture of innovation, leveraging modern engineering practices and shared infrastructure to rapidly build, test, and deploy software solutions across a range of environments, including cloud. MSS also plays a key role in advancing technology modernisation within Government, delivering scalable and adaptable solutions for complex enterprise challenges.

As the Stakeholder Engagement Lead within the GEO SPACES program, you will connect customer, operational and technical perspectives to shape effective geospatial capability planning and delivery. Working across a complex, secure environment, you will: Develop productive relationships with customer, ADF, operational, delivery and technical stakeholders, creating clear pathways for collaboration and informed decision-making. Plan and facilitate interviews, workshops and discovery activities to understand stakeholder needs, constraints and priorities. Translate stakeholder insights into clear requirements, decisions, risks and delivery inputs, bridging operational needs and technical teams working with ESRI-based capabilities. Prepare audience-appropriate briefings, engagement products and correspondence, while maintaining stakeholder maps, engagement plans, action registers and communication records.

You will bring experience engaging diverse stakeholders in complex environments and the ability to turn varied perspectives into clear, practical inputs for capability delivery. Essential: Experience in stakeholder engagement, relationship management and facilitation. Experience working within Defence, the ADF or a similarly complex and secure environment. Knowledge of GEOINT, GIS