As the project Solution Architect, you will be working as part of the engineering team providing critical national infrastructure to a government programme. You will support several changes and will be responsible for their solution, to ensure that each change appropriately integrates with the current mission critical legacy systems and meets the customer needs, including functionality, timescales and costs. You will be leading other engineering team members to ensure that the design is complete and ensuring that the lower-level design work is consistent with your high-level designs. The Solution Architect provides leadership in terms of whole system solution, covering technical, service and process aspects. They make use of Subject Matter Experts and specialists to assist them in developing solutions that meet the customer requirements, whilst engaging with systems engineering to ensure that solutions are deliverable and maintainable. Their responsibilities and accountability extend across contracted work (including Cloud Transformation) and on contract growth. The Chief Engineer, Solution Architect, Service Architect and Programme Managers work in partnership to ensure a successful delivery. What will I be doing? You will be accountable for designing a technical solution that is acceptable to the client within the project constraints of cost, schedule and risk. You will produce high/low level designs that can be used by the engineering team to build a compliant solution. You will engage with the Chief Engineer, Lead Systems Engineer to ensure that solutions are deliverable. Represent the company on customer governance boards. Be the point of contact for customer technical issues and requirements clarification. Accountability: Accountable to the Program Chief Engineer for the coherence of all system designs and technical proposals, ensuring they meet the specified contractual requirements. Accountable to the Projects Programme Manager for defining a solution that is deliverable within the cost, schedule, and quality constraints. Accountable to the program Chief Architect for defining a solution that aligns with the wider programs enterprise architecture, strategy and customer agreed technical roadmap. Authority: Authority to approve customer requirements, technical designs. Authority to engage with the customer to clarify requirements and how they can be met. As a leader, you must encourage people to speak freely, create an environment of safety, listen to people, and be an advocate for positive change and innovation. What does Leidos need from me? Ability to independently develop technical solutions to customer problems. Provide overarching architectural guidance. Ability to working under pressure in large multi discipline teams to tight schedules. Ability to lead architecture and engineering teams within the larger project. Ability to engage with stakeholders from multiple areas of the business including product design, service design, operations and the customer. Using excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills to explain complex topics concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences. It would be great if you had any experience in the following, but not essential: Previous experience of creating solutions within a Mission critical or Business critical environment. Experience of infrastructure technologies and security boundaries. Good all round technical knowledge of Linux and Windows environments and Application hosting. Security Management. Service Architecture. Experience in SAFe/Agile delivery Methodology. IBM products such as WebSphere Application Server, DataPower and Business Automation Workflow.