Leidos Australia is the largest commercial supplier of intelligence services to the Australian Government and provides a number of critical systems integration projects to the Department of Defence. We also deliver service management, including service desk, for the Australian Tax Office, supporting 25,000 ATO end users.

12 month Fixed Term opportunity to join a large scale federal program in a team leadership position. You will lead a team of Applications Packagers on an End User Workspace transformation project, managing team deliverables and resources to ensure project completion milestones are met. You will partner with stakeholders across the project including Project Managers, technical and non-technical staff so your stakeholder management skills will be well utilised here. This role will suit either a Senior SOE Engineer who has lead teams before, or a technically minded Project Manager with sound knowledge of SOE and Applications Packaging.

Your team are tasked with:

• Implementation of a product rollouts for large department, working with stakeholders, users and vendors, with multiple facets (e.g. Department deployment and migration planning including hardware, software, Software as a Service, testing, training, communication, work team meetings).
• Carrying out complex software packaging and O/S imaging assignments requiring familiarity and expertise with a broad field of engineering and technical knowledge
• Ensuring all project related activities are on track to meet tight schedules
• Carrying out specialist technical activities in a professional manner in support of project and company objectives
• Working collaboratively to gather, analyse and create rollout plans based on stakeholder’s readiness and availability

About you and what you’ll bring

You are a seasoned people manager with a technical background and strong project management skills. Knowledge of Applications Packaging is essential, coupled with strong stakeholder management skills and ability to drive project outcomes.

You are comfortable working in a multidisciplinary team, forging relationships with a wide variety of technical and non-technical staff in order to achieve project outcomes and milestones. Experience running teams or projects that involve the following will be highly valued:

• Imaging & packaging using thick (MSI) & thin (XenApp, ThinApp & App-V) distributions
• Packaging for VDI environments
• Experience in Office 365 ProPlus deployment using click-to-run and Microsoft InTune
• MDT and SCCM/Configuration Manager Current Branch
• MDOP and client virtualization technologies
• Windows 10 Client Imaging and Deployment
• PowerShell automation leveraging WMI
• VBScript automation
• Developing/maintaining Custom MOF files
• WQL – Windows Query language experience

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and have the ability to obtain a Baseline Security Clearance. 

What you’ll love

Leidos is growing rapidly so you’ll enjoy having the support of sponsored training and development and the offer of a varied career path. We regularly promote from within across a range of Federal Government and Defence projects so opportunities abound. We offer flexible work practices, 12 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers, novated leasing options, insurance discounts and more. Get in touch today!