# Government Services CTO **Company**: Leidos **Location**: Reston, VA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $154,050.00 - $278,475.00 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Reston-VA/Government-Services-CTO_R-00195198?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c717f4e2-444 ## Description We are seeking a Government Services Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead growth opportunities in our Government Services Business Area. As a Government Services CTO, you will use industry experience to deliver innovative solutions that help our customers transform and modernize mission operations across NASA, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and federal civilian and state agencies. The qualified candidate will function as the technical and strategic lead working with a broader cross-functional team to generate requirements through ongoing customer interactions, and then develop and assist in delivering solutions based on our customers' current and future needs across exploration, environment, energy, polar operations, and civilian mission markets. In addition, the Government Services CTO will work as an interface between programs, customers, and Leidos Senior Management, ensuring Leidos Management understanding of customer domain, pain points, and strategy to drive business development and technology insertion initiatives, in order to ensure success of high-value capture and on-contract growth opportunities. **Primary Responsibilities:** - Conduct market research and technology comparisons for mission operations, research enterprise, environmental, logistics, and civilian mission processes and tools, tracking industry trends and assessing technologies for fit within customer environments. - Contribute to customer engagements with NASA, DOE/NNSA, NSF, USACE, NAVFAC, NOAA, USGS, and federal civilian and state health agencies; analyzing customer needs and aligning them with industry trends and Leidos solution offerings. - Participate in opportunity shaping efforts to drive internal and external customer understanding of technical discriminators and assist in injecting Leidos technology differentiators into customer operations. - Partner with Business Development staff to understand and participate in the development of new business strategy, assessing current and future skills and technology needs. - Organize project and task workloads and select individuals most qualified for assignments on specific projects. - Direct technical organization to ensure progress according to technical specifications, campaign strategies, and business objectives. - Develop solutions that are highly innovative and achieved through research and integration of best practices, including mission operations, remote site and supply chain logistics, geospatial and environmental data, and secure enterprise IT. - Participate in the identification of new technologies and lead investment projects focused on using those technologies to develop repeatable solutions that increase Leidos differentiation. - Support customer and stakeholder meetings and technical discussions. - Lead Internal Research and Development (IRAD) activities in the Government Services domain to include Project Manager/Principal Investigator (PM/PI) functions for our most complex IRAD efforts. - Act as a subject matter expert in the translation of solution requirements into design documentation. - Provide direction on a variety of design decisions including solution evaluation and selection, buy vs. build vs. reuse questions, early-phase project estimates, platform selection, and technical designs. **Basic Qualifications:** - Requires a Master's Degree in a technical discipline with 15 years of prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree with 13 years of prior relevant experience. - Experienced professional in contract performance with demonstrated technical lead and customer relationship building in the performance and growth of contracts. - Experienced solution architect, sales engineer, and/or technical volume lead on captures and proposals. - Requires US Citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance (Secret or DOE L). - Proven ability to reach out to Industry, Academia, and government customers synchronizing efforts across multiple lines of research, development and funding to enhance our solutions offerings and close gaps in offerings yielding competitive technical solutions. - Experience in complex mission system definition, design, integration and delivery for federal customers. - Knowledgeable in program management methodology and techniques; performance evaluation and change management principles. - Demonstrated ability in the areas of personnel planning, project reviews, scheduling, and budget control. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas. - Experience with writing content for white papers, RFI responses, proposals and customer briefings. - Experience developing and reviewing BOM and BOEs for complex solutions. - Experience with reviewing proposal contents including draft reviews, red team reviews, risk reviews, etc. - Implementation experience with one or more of the following: AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP. - Experience implementing DevSecOps in a cloud environment. **Preferred Qualifications:** - Active DOE Q or Top Secret clearance. - Operational or technical experience in one or more Government Services mission areas: human spaceflight operations, environmental compliance and restoration, earth science and geospatial intelligence, energy research, nuclear security, remote site operations and logistics, or civilian/public health systems. - Working knowledge of NASA, DOE/NNSA, NSF, DoD environmental, or federal civilian agency missions and acquisition environments. - Previous experience managing complex solution development efforts/contracts, including operations and maintenance or management and operating (M&O) contracts. - Demonstrated ability to work across internal functions, subcontractors, and outside entities to facilitate successful product completion/delivery. - Experience with Data Analytics, modern data platforms, and large-scale scientific or geospatial data processing. - Experience using modern digital engineering practices to include MBSE knowledge on development or integration programs. ## Skills ### Required - AWS - Azure - OCI - GCP - DevSecOps - Artificial Intelligence - Machine Learning - Digital Modernization - Mission Software Systems ### Nice to have - DOE Q clearance - Top Secret clearance - Data Analytics - modern data platforms - geospatial data processing - MBSE --- Source: [Apply at leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Reston-VA/Government-Services-CTO_R-00195198?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)