Description
Leidos is seeking Lead Systems Engineers to join the Air Traffic Business Area within the Homeland Sector, supporting the development of next-generation flight service and air traffic systems.
As a member of a Scaled Agile software development organization, you will contribute to the technical execution of a program that integrates proven, globally deployed technologies with modern cloud-native capabilities.
In this position, you will serve as a Product Owner for a development team in an Agile/SAFe environment, assisting in the design and implementation of software solutions alongside your team while working with program architects, stakeholders, product delivery, and DevSecOps teams.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Review FAA requirement documents, advisory circulars, and applicable regulations to extract intent, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
- Manage the backlog for one or more Agile teams, prioritizing features based on stakeholder needs, and ensuring the development team builds the right functionality.
- Engage with customer stakeholders to identify use cases with an emphasis on completeness, testability, alignment with operational workflows, and readiness for validation trials.
- Decompose high-level regulatory requirements into specific, testable capability statements with clear acceptance criteria mapped to FAA compliance outcomes.
- Systematically capture and communicate design decisions, performance trade-offs, regulatory compliance rationales, and risk assessments with each release.
- Prepare and review technical documentation, including use cases, user interface specifications, and requirements traceability.
- Participate in structured reviews and inspections.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field with 4-8 years of relevant experience or a Master’s degree with 2-6 years of experience.
- Experience and familiarity with Agile methodology, principles, and tools.
- Familiarity with the role of the Agile Product Owner, including owning and prioritizing the product backlog, defining complete product backlog items, making timely decisions on scope, and acceptance of work.
- Strong understanding of disciplined engineering processes, including attention to detail.
- Past practical exposure to writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining software or scripts.
- Clear and effective verbal and written communication.
- Experience with the design of cloud-based systems.
- Experience in engaging customers to understand needs, deliver solutions, manage expectations, and maintain an ongoing relationship.
- Ability to obtain SF-85 Public Trust suitability determination.
- US Citizenship.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Java, Python, React, and scripting languages.
- Knowledge of AI-assisted development workflows and tools.
- Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of air traffic control systems, general aviation, and/or flight services.
- Practical knowledge of FAA/DoD systems, technical policies, standards and orders.
- Experience with leveraging requirement-management tools and documentation platforms.
Pay Range: $87,100.00 - $157,450.00