Description
At Leidos Australia, you'll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration, and commitment. The Mission Software Systems (MSS) team brings together expertise across intelligence, software, and cloud to deliver end-to-end capability supporting the full intelligence lifecycle.
In this role, you will define and govern the architecture of complex systems from concept through delivery and sustainment. You'll translate operational needs into coherent system structures, interfaces, and design principles while guiding teams through significant technical decisions.
Responsibilities:
- Develop system architectures, viewpoints, models, and technical roadmaps aligned with capability and lifecycle requirements.
- Decompose operational needs into system requirements, functions, components, and interfaces.
- Lead architecture reviews, option assessments, and technical trade studies, documenting decisions and constraints.
- Work with engineering, security, integration, and project teams to maintain architectural integrity as the solution evolves.
Requirements:
- Experience developing system, solution, or enterprise architectures for complex technical environments.
- Knowledge of requirements decomposition, functional analysis, interfaces, and systems engineering lifecycle practices.
- Capability in architecture modelling, design documentation, and technical governance.
- Experience evaluating solution options and communicating trade-offs, risks, and recommendations.
- Ability to collaborate across engineering disciplines and maintain alignment between architecture and implementation.
- Experience engaging customers, technical authorities, and delivery leadership.
Benefits:
- 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.