Our name isn’t the only thing that’s unique about Leidos Australia. We’re a complex systems integration company building world-class solutions across government and defence that ensure peace of mind for the entire nation. Supported by global backing from our US network, we’re trusted by our customers to deliver the most innovative answers to their most complex challenges. Seriously interesting work that benefits and safeguards every Australian. That’s where you come in.

Your new role

You will be able to demonstrate knowledge and professional experience as a System Architect in a multidisciplinary environment including and understanding of SharePoint infrastructure within a systems engineering lifecycle.

As the ideal candidate, you would have previous experience working within a project environment. You will ideally have an NV2 clearance, however we will consider exceptional candidates with an NV1 

Required skills and abilities and engineering and knowledge, which may include:

• Provide detailed architecture analysis, design, and direction on development activities.
• Provide leadership in liaising with customer representatives to derive functional and non-functional requirements, related to technical delivery of projects.
• Provide leadership in terms of managing technology obsolescence and developing credible technology roadmap and migration strategies.
• Assist in the creation of prototypes, presentations, supporting design collateral.
• Provide documentation on all architecture designs, decisions and best practice approaches to architecture design implementation based on communication with project teams.
• Design and development of enterprise applications on the Microsoft platform – SharePoint / .NET specifically.
• Ability to work within a disciplined systems engineering lifecycle and demonstrate requirements compliance at Preliminary and Critical Design reviews.
• Provide leadership in terms of mentoring staff within the Service Design team.

About you and what you will bring:

Coupled with your education and practical experience, you will demonstrate a pro-active approach with the ability to understand the business, identify issues and develop relationships to achieve the business’s
objectives.  You will also have:

• Several years of experience working in a similar role within an engineering or project environment (preferably in a similar industry)
• First rate problem solving skills.
• Excellent documentation skills  - and able to clearly and simply articulate design rationale.
• Good knowledge and application of a broad range of skills including software, systems and enterprise architecture, software and hardware engineering, interface protocols.
• Demonstrated ability to produce consistent results within a complex environment.
• Excellant knowledge and application of a broad range of skills including software, systems and enterprise architecture, software and hardware engineering, interface protocols.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver software products on time, and to a high standard of quality.
• Willingness to document and improve Design and systems engineering processes. 
• Will have experience of the Sharepoint family (2010/2016/2019), .NET and Java development.

What you'll Love

• Join a global leader in Software Engineering
• Do Interesting work that matters - your work impacts all Australians
• We are serious about your career and have a track record of promoting internally