Chief Engineer

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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

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.

• Chief engineering or senior technical authority leadership
• Systems engineering and lifecycle assurance
• 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.
• Leading engineering across multiple disciplines rather than a single technology domain.
• Maintaining the integrity of an end-to-end solution through design, build, integration, verification and transition.
• Converting discovery, prototype or demonstration outputs into an assured production delivery path.
• Influencing senior stakeholders while remaining sufficiently close to delivery to resolve technical constraints.
• Producing and assuring technical documentation, estimates, design evidence and acceptance artefacts.
• Supply chain, procurement, order management or logistics technology.
• IBM Sterling OMS, Ivalua, planning platforms or comparable COTS products.
• AWS-based platforms, containerised workloads and automated deployment.
• IRAD, bid, demonstrator or product incubation environments.
• Defence, government or security-conscious delivery.