Chief Engineer

🕒 September 24

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £75.8k - £99.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Leidos

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1969

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Leidos is a leading systems integrator in science, technology, and engineering, providing solutions that transform and enable the missions of its customers. The company operates across various markets, including aviation, defense, energy, government, healthcare, intelligence, science, and space. Leidos is involved in AI, digital modernization, cyber operations, and integrated and mission software systems. With a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability, Leidos also engages in charitable efforts and community enrichment programs. Additionally, it contributes to developing solutions for counter-unmanned aerial systems and electric vehicle infrastructure for military applications.

📋 Description

• Serve as the Chief Engineer and senior engineering authority for ESCS • Maintain continuity of technical direction and convert programme intent into a production-capable delivery path • Lead technical governance across applications, integration, data, cloud, security, test and operational readiness • Act as principal technical interface to programme leadership • Set engineering direction, technical guardrails and decision routes across capability teams and suppliers • Ensure prototypes, demonstrations and IRAD outputs have a credible route to secure, scalable and supportable production delivery • Provide independent technical judgement on delivery, cost, schedule, risk and customer-outcome trade-offs • Own the ESCS engineering strategy, technical baseline, engineering management plan and technical decision record • Lead multidisciplinary engineering across architecture, software, integration, data, cloud infrastructure, security, test and service readiness • Translate customer outcomes and operational scenarios into technical priorities, increments and engineering acceptance criteria • Chair technical and design reviews and assure designs, interfaces and non-functional requirements • Maintain technical authority over solution integrity, configuration, interfaces, technical debt and engineering risks • Identify required skills, supplier inputs, dependencies, assumptions and assurance evidence • Align technical estimates, WBS/PBS content, resource assumptions and technical milestones with the integrated programme plan • Drive repeatable deployment, automated testing, configuration management, observability, security and documentation practices • Provide technical coaching and delegated authority while retaining accountability for the overall engineering solution • Support customer demonstrations, bids and investment decisions with evidence of feasibility, maturity and residual risk

🎯 Requirements

• Chief engineering or senior technical authority leadership • Systems engineering and lifecycle assurance • Enterprise and solution architecture • COTS and SaaS integration • API, event and data-flow architecture • Cloud-native engineering, Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps • Non-functional requirements, security and operational readiness • Technical baseline, configuration and interface management • Technical planning, estimation, risk and design governance • Senior stakeholder, supplier and multidisciplinary engineering leadership • Technical authority or engineering leadership for complex systems integration or enterprise platform delivery • Experience leading engineering across multiple disciplines rather than a single technology domain • Experience maintaining end-to-end solution integrity through design, build, integration, verification and transition • Experience converting discovery, prototype or demonstration outputs into an assured production delivery path • Experience influencing senior stakeholders while remaining sufficiently close to delivery to resolve technical constraints • Experience producing and assuring technical documentation, estimates, design evidence and acceptance artefacts • SC required to start • SC required for the role

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 • Technical academies • Career rotations • Career development plans • Digital tools and flexibility to work from home, the office or customer sites

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