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The Health Solutions Business Area Office of Technology at Leidos currently has an opening for a Director of Innovation to lead technology enabled growth across our healthcare markets. This is an exciting opportunity to use industry experience to deliver innovative solutions that help our customers transform and modernize their Health missions. The qualified candidate will function as the technical and strategic lead, working with a broader cross-functional team to generate requirements through ongoing customer interactions, and then develop and assist in delivering solutions based on our customers current and future needs in the Military and Civilian Health markets.
In addition, the Health Solutions Innovation Director will work as an interface between programs, customers and Leidos senior management, ensuring Leidos management understanding of customer domain, pain points, and strategy to drive business development and technology insertion initiatives, in order to ensure success of high-value capture and on-contract growth opportunities.
This role is functional, and matrixed to support contracts that require US Citizenship/Green Card or suitability clearances to allow customer site visits and access to secured data and systems. Inability to meet this requirement will restrict ability to perform work on government mission based programs.
Primary Responsibilities
- Technology Insertion Management: Lead the development and execution of strategies to transition technology from innovation to production, ensuring alignment with production capabilities and operational goals to develop repeatable solutions that increase Leidos differentiation.
- Understand and monitor overall healthcare market trends assessing technologies to determine relevancy and customer impact of new healthcare focused technologies.
- Develop and lead execution of innovation investment portfolio including Internal Research and Development (IRAD), CRAD, and joint partner initiatives. Responsibility includes Project Manager/Principal Investigator (PM/PI) functions for our most complex investment efforts.
- Act as a subject matter expert in the translation of solution requirements into design documentation.
- Provide direction on a variety of design decisions including analysis of alternatives, solution evaluation and selection, buy vs. build vs. reuse questions, early-phase project estimates, platform selection, and technical designs.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate with program execution and innovation teams to integrate emerging technologies into production processes effectively.
- Participate in opportunity shaping efforts to drive internal and external customer understanding of technical discriminators and assist in injecting Leidos technology differentiators into customer operations.
- Work with the program and line leadership to identify technology and solution roadmaps to improve mission capabilities resulting in increased contract growth and improved customer satisfaction
Basic Qualifications
- Requires a Master's Degree in a technical discipline with 15 years of prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree with 13 years or prior relevant experience.
- Experienced professional in contract performance with demonstrated technical lead and customer relationship building in the performance and growth of contracts. Capable of generating on-contract-growth through insertion of innovation and technology on existing programs.
- Experienced solution architect, sales engineer, and/or technical volume lead on captures and proposals.
- Strategic Relationship Management: Proven experience in managing and influencing relationships with diverse stakeholders, including those whose goals may not always align with our organizational objectives.
- Communication Skills: Exceptional ability to exercise diplomacy and tact in interactions, ensuring constructive outcomes while maintaining alignment with organizational goals.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas.
- Experience with writing content for white papers, RFI responses, proposals and customer briefings.
- Organizational Acumen: Demonstrated ability to effectively navigate complex organizational and competitive environments, balancing the interests and objectives of various commercial entities and individuals with potentially divergent goals.
- Proven ability to reach out to Industry, Academia, and government customers synchronizing efforts across multiple lines of research, development and funding to enhance our solutions offerings and close gaps in offerings yielding competitive technical solutions.
- Experience in health system definition, design, integration and delivery.
- Knowledgeable in program management methodology and techniques; performance evaluation and change management principles.
- Demonstrated ability in the areas of personnel planning, project reviews, scheduling, and budget control.
- Experience developing and reviewing BOM and BOEs for complex solutions.
- Implementation experience with one or more of the following: AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP.
Preferred Qualifications
- Operational experience in the Health domain.
- Working knowledge of DHA/VA healthcare systems.
- Previous experience managing complex solution development efforts / contracts.
- Demonstrated ability to work across internal functions and with outside entities to facilitate successful product completion/delivery.
- Experience implementing solutions using Salesforce, ServiceNow, Pega and Microsoft Power platform.
- Experience with Data Analytics and modern data platforms.
Original Posting Date:
2024-08-05
While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $144,300.00 - $260,850.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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