Systems Engineering Lead

Leidos is seeking a Systems Engineer Lead to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) GEOINT Dissemination Task Order on the FS2 Contract. This individual will bring seasoned leadership and systems engineering experience to manage and modernize on-prem and cloud-based dissemination environments. The ideal candidate will have the technical acumen, Agile experience, and strategic communication skills necessary to lead integration, operations, and sustainment efforts across security domains, and development teams.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serve as a lead engineer guiding the integration, operations, sustainment, and DevSecOps deployment of complex dissemination systems (Gateway, Tile Generation, EFD).
• Interface with senior NGA stakeholders to communicate priorities, milestones, risk mitigations, and system performance updates.
• Collaborate with Agile Release Trains and Government Product Owners to groom backlogs, manage dependencies, and track deliverables through SAFe Agile workflows.
• Lead and contribute to readiness reviews (TRR/ORR), configuration control boards, and technical exchange meetings.
• Oversee system performance optimization, baseline management, and metric tracking across both on-prem and cloud environments.
• Coordinate and deconflict technical requirements across mission partners, leveraging strong background in systems engineering artifacts and process discipline.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have an active Top Secret to be considered and ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance prior to start and willingness and ability to obtain a Polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, Information Technology Management, Computer Information Systems, or related technical field
• 12 years of systems engineering experience or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree, including NGA and DoD programs
• Demonstrated leadership in Agile environments supporting requirements analysis, configuration management, and integration activities
• Experience briefing senior leadership, authoring technical documentation, and managing performance deliverables
• Experience with systems lifecycle activities including testing, IV&V, and system administration
• Familiarity with NGA dissemination capabilities such Gateway systems
• SAFe Agile Certified; experience supporting backlog management and Release Planning Events
• Strong knowledge of engineering boards, CM processes, and business intelligence/data alignment strategies
• Ability to lead a team, mentor junior team members, and drive technical projects.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills in high-pressure environments.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience in presenting technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with AWS cloud services and environments
• Familiarity with NGA's Confluence, JIRA, and DevSecOps pipeline environments
• Prior experience supporting NGA requirements transformation initiatives from documents to digital environments
• Strong understanding of GEOINT product lifecycle, architecture alignment, and metadata/ingest management

Original Posting:
May 9, 2025
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:
Pay Range $112,450.00 - $203,275.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.