Solutions Architect

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.

Primary responsibilities:

• 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.

• 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.

Desired experience:

• 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.

• 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 work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme

• Private Medical Insurance

• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)

• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

• Flexible Working Scheme, Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That’s why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits .

Leidos UK & EUROPE (http://www.leidos.com/company/global/uk-europe) - we work to make the worldsafer,healthier, andmore efficient through technology, engineering andscience.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing . We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you’re looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We’re not hiring followers. We’re recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We’re already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares., Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com .