VP, Technology and Capability Delivery

Leidos is an American defense, aviation, information technology, and biomedical research company headquartered in Reston, Virginia, that provides scientific, engineering, systems integration, and technical services. Our key lines of business – Digital Modernization, National Security, Health & Civil, Commercial & International, and Defense Systems drive $14.4 billion in revenue and employ nearly 50,000 employees worldwide.  

The Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) reports into the Digital Modernization Sector and collaborates across organizational lines to deliver effective enabling digital capabilities to our global employee base. The OCIO team develops, deploys, and manages innovative digital capabilities leveraging industry-leading partnerships and cost-effective deployment and management models.   The OCIO is seeking leaders to drive efficient capability delivery and management, more opportunities for innovation, and facilitate data-driven decisions across the enterprise.

This position is to lead our incredible architecture, engineering, infrastructure, and application teams, whodeploy and manage our service catalog to the enterprise.

Core Responsibilities include:

• Cultivate and grow a capability-focused IT Service organization that balances technology modernization with cost efficiency

• Update and continuously manage a clear service catalog of offerings, in order to best facilitate our global employees’ work and enhance productivity

• Develop and deliver business requirements within budget

• Identifyopportunities to reduce technical sprawl, including technology for retirement

• Evaluate new technology, partners, and capabilities for integration into our service catalog

• Develop an outcomes-based culture and cultivate and reward high performing teams

• Work collaboratively with Digital Transformation & Business Enablement team to develop, codify, and test Customer Zero opportunities

• Identify and drive productivity- and cost-efficiency-driving KPI’s

• Contribute to the CIO strategic roadmap of progressive opportunities for modernization, innovation, and system retirement

• Champion and iterate on CIO’s technology capabilities with internal and external collaborators

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 15+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 13+ years of prior relevant experience. 

• 12+ years of experience supervising or leading teams or projects. 

• Demonstrable experience leading ITIL-basedenterprise service delivery teams

• Demonstrable experience leading geographically-dispersed technical teams through large scale organizational change

• Demonstrable experience developing and executing a strategic vision through to deliver capabilities to an enterprise

• Demonstrable systems engineering expertise/practices to drive consistent technical operating models for service management and delivery

• Experience developing and delivering cloud, compute/storage/infrastructure

• Experience managing SaaS and COTS software solutions for an enterprise (Microsoft, AWS, ERPs, etc.)

• Experience with successfully managing P&L responsibilities

• Ability to obtain/maintain a DoD clearance (US Citizen) is strongly preferred

• Engineering background with MBA strongly preferred

• 25% travel CONUS (mostly Reston VA) and annual international travel to applicable team sites