Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect Are you ready for your next career challenge?.. Role overview: Shape a secure, integrated and deliverable technology solution for ESCS. The Solution Architect works across customer needs, business outcomes, enterprise constraints and delivery capabilities to create a coherent solution architecture, roadmaps and evidence for investment and implementation.  The role you will play: Translate complex mission and business needs into a clear end-to-end solution architecture.  Connect reusable Leidos capabilities, COTS products, cloud services, integration and data approaches into an achievable solution.  Provide architecture leadership from early shaping and estimation through delivery assurance and transition.

Lead discovery and architecture definition across business, application, data, integration, technology and security viewpoints.  Develop solution options, trade studies, architecture decisions, roadmaps and transition states.  Define non-functional requirements and assure security, resilience, performance, scalability, interoperability and supportability.  Create high-level designs and guide decomposition into engineering work packages and low-level designs.  Support estimates and investment cases with architectural assumptions, risks, dependencies and resource needs.  Assess reuse opportunities, legacy constraints, supplier propositions and build-versus-buy choices.  Engage customer, programme, security, commercial, supplier and engineering stakeholders to resolve design decisions.  Maintain traceability between customer outcomes, requirements, architecture, delivery and acceptance.  Provide technical assurance during implementation and support controlled transition into service.  Required skills and capabilities : End-to-end solution architecture  Enterprise architecture methods and viewpoint modelling  Secure cloud architecture on Azure and/or AWS  Application, integration, API and event-driven architecture  Data architecture, analytics and information governance awareness  Identity, access, Zero Trust and security-by-design principles  Non-functional requirements and architectural assurance  COTS, SaaS and legacy integration  Option analysis, trade studies, roadmaps and transition planning  Bid support, estimation and senior stakeholder communication  Required experience:  Solution architecture leadership on complex, multi-domain technology change.  Experience engaging customers to shape ambiguous needs into feasible solution options.  Experience developing architecture artefacts that can be used for estimation, engineering and assurance.  Experience balancing mission outcome, security, delivery risk, cost, schedule and maintainability.

National security, defence or wider public-sector environments.  Cross-domain integration, secure data platforms or mission systems.  TOGAF, BCS, AWS, Azure or equivalent architecture accreditation.  Product, IRAD, pre-sales or competitive bid shaping.  Success in the role : Architecture is coherent, secure, traceable and implementable.  Assumptions, trade-offs and residual risks are transparent to decision-makers.  Delivery teams receive sufficient guidance without unnecessary prescription.  Reusable capabilities and patterns are identified and applied appropriately.  Architecture remains aligned from early shaping through acceptance and service transition.  Clearance Requirements: SC required to start SC required for the role ​​ Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction... What we do for you: At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy