Every person at Leidos plays an important and valued role bringing science, engineering and technology together to produce practical solutions for our customers’ most complex problems. It’s how we help to make the world safer, healthier and more efficient - work that matters and a mission, like those of our customers, we are passionate about. We’re open minded, ambitious and committed to enabling our people to do their best work, to be inspired by what they can achieve and the impact they can have.

Here in Australia, we’re agile and growing fast. Our 1,400 employees are busy building an enviable reputation for innovation and delivery. And, as part of a US-based organisation with 37,000 people and a 50 year history, we are able to draw upon world-leading technical expertise to help us provide the best solutions to our customers.

Your New Role

We have an opportunity for an experienced Engineering Lead to support the start-up of the first phase of a new multi-year program, which will expand the capacity of the large enterprise environment for the next step of the program. This role will report to the capability lead in a matrix organisation, which supports the delivery of a range of complex project and programs.

As this role is a leadership role, strong relationship building and the ability to influence key stakeholders is a must.

This role is responsible for managing the engineering team to:

• Analyse detailed system requirements and ensure the requirements are captured in relevant solution design documentation
• Ensure that the solution implementation is delivered maintaining the quality management framework and to the engineering standards set out in the Systems Engineering Management Plan
• Oversee the solution implementation to ensure it is delivered to the requirements as agreed with the client.
• Work with the testing team and test lead to ensure the quality of the testing meet the agreed test plan
•  Ensure the installation, configuration, and documentation of the initial capability at Data Centre is achieved successful,
• Aid in the coordination of the capability between Data Centres 
• Management/ support the verification, testing and transition into service of the capability at the Target new Data Centre.
• Work closely with the Chief Architect in delivering the solution for the project
• Leading and managing works of other technical staff for the build of the enabling services and Data Centre facilities design,
• Communicate with executive leadership (internally or client) regarding matters of significant importance during build / fitout,
• Supporting the project managers and chief architect to coordinate the various teams across the project (key focus of engineering team members)
• Aiding in documentation reviews to ensure alignment with Capability design.
• Implementing best practices to identify, support and recommend system functional specifications,
• Management of the engineering team to ensure technical execution plans are in place before commencement of build activities
• Liaising with cross functional teams to ensure appropriate understanding from both the project (and from other teams) as to the projects requirements

About You and What You'll Bring

A bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering discipline or relevant professional experience and specialised training is highly desirable.

Has in-depth understanding of technical principles, theories, concepts, and their application across range of programs.

Understanding of requirements engineering and relevant processes

• Subject matter expertise in one or more of the below areas-
• Large and complex enterprise environment
• Data Centre Networking
• Midrange systems/ Compute
• Storage

Due to the nature of this work this role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and to be able to obtain and hold an NV-1 security clearance.

What you’ll love

This is a fast growing business currently implementing a range of business improvement initiatives, so you’ll have the chance to see some market leading technologies implemented across the function along with contributing to building further on the progressive work currently being developed. We offer a flexible working environment where it’s possible to design your ideal work week.

You’ll be joining a fun and friendly team who support each other closely and love to celebrate together.