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Solutions Architect

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Role overview:

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.

Required skills and capabilities:

  • 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.

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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.

Success in the role:

  • 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.

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  • 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
  • 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

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering, and science.

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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 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.

Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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Skills

Solution architecture
Enterprise architecture
Cloud architecture
Azure
AWS
API architecture
Data architecture
Information governance
Zero Trust
Security-by-design
COTS integration
SaaS integration
Stakeholder communication
Roadmap planning
Technical assurance
Bid support

Location

United Kingdom

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