Description
Our team feel Leidos is a great place to work. Learn more about our culture and benefits by visiting us here https://www.leidos.com/company/global/australia/careers
Do Work That Matters
Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.
Your New Role and Responsibilities
We have an opportunity for an experienced Service Design and Transition Delivery Lead to support a multi-year Defence program to deliver and sustain an enterprise Health Knowledge Management System. This capability will enable better clinical decision making for the ADF.
This is a rare opportunity to use your expertise to mould the processes and procedures needed to make sure that the outcome needed will meet contractual obligations. Your general responsibilities will include:
Key Responsibilities: -
Lead and govern the engineering team delivering system, software, integration, and data services to Defence, including technical design, baselines, reviews, and alignment with program governance.
Ensure satisfaction of Customer Descriptions of Requirements within technical, schedule, and cost constraints, managing sustainment contracts and additional work orders through to delivery.
Plan and manage the full engineering lifecycle to ensure mission and support systems remain fit for purpose, secure, and aligned with product release cycles.
Own availability, capacity, performance, demand management, and IT service continuity/disaster recovery planning, initiating corrective actions to maintain agreed service levels.
Ensure non-functional requirements are met, including availability, performance, service continuity, IT security, configuration, asset, and change management.
Oversee applications systems engineering, integration, data quality/synchronisation, patching, release, deployment, verification and validation (V&V).
Collaborate with customers, vendors, and internal teams to drive solution roadmaps, prioritise improvements, and coordinate transition, training, knowledge management, and organisational change
What You’ll Bring to Make An Impact
Extensive experience delivering large-scale, complex, software-centric programs, including senior roles leading engineering teams and integrated system support activities.
Strong background in systems and software engineering, enterprise architecture, SDLC, and configuration baseline management within multi-vendor, multi-product environments.
Demonstrated experience managing high-performance outcomes under managed service provider contracts, including sustainment, maintenance, and support of complex systems.
Proven ability to resolve complex technical issues using strong analytical, conceptual, and methodical approaches with high attention to detail.
Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, with experience influencing stakeholders and operating in customer-facing roles.
Experience producing contractual and service-focused reports, with desirable exposure to Defence Technical Regulation frameworks (e.g. TAF) and regulated environments.
Highly motivated and flexible professional with experience delivering and supporting cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and desirable exposure to health systems, interoperability, and clinical domains.
Don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes – if you meet most of them, we encourage you to submit your application. We’re most interested in your strengths, what you want to learn and how far you want to go.
This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold NV-1 security clearance.
Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose
Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It's about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Paul Chase – Chief Executive, Leidos Australia.
Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
Our five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network, Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.
Next Steps
Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.
We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please contact our Careers team careers.au@au.leidos.com if you’d like to discuss any additional support during your application or throughout the recruitment process.
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Original Posting:
For U.S. Positions: 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:
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.
About Leidos
Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
Pay and Benefits
Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.
Securing Your Data
Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system – never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at LeidosCareersFraud@leidos.com.
If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Commitment to Non-Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.
