Description
Leidos is seeking an Infrastructure Technical Project Manager/Implementation Lead to be part of the mission solution and help lead SSA’s Digital Modernization Strategy. Join one of our high performing teams responsible for building the next-generation enterprise APIs and modern responsive user interfaces, supporting the Social Security Administration (SSA) and their mission to meet the changing needs of the public, positively impacting at least 65 million American lives per month. We are a team of forward-looking professionals in need of a strong candidate with these key required skills: Strong knowledge of storage platform including datacenter workings, It infrastructure, cloud computing and internet access etc.
*this position is onsite 5 days a week in Woodlawn, MD*
If this sounds like a mission you want to be a part of, keep reading!
TEAM CULTURE
Your passion and values might be a good fit for our teams if you answer “yes” to the following questions:
- Are you looking for a company that puts employees first, with a focus on career, flexibility, and well-being?
- Do you enjoy collaborating with colleagues and teammates and believe that the best ideas are fostered in an inclusive environment?
- Are you searching for a team with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive for daily mission success?
- Are you comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership?
- Do you enjoy being a catalyst, solving complex problems, and providing innovative solutions?
- Do you have the flexibility, creativity, and resilience to pivot the mission for success?
- Do you have the courage to make tough ethical decisions with pride, transparency, and respect?
MENTORSHIP & CAREER GROWTH
Our teams are dedicated to supporting new team members in an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Experienced team members will be assigned to new hires for one-on-one mentoring, collaborative reviews, and coaching on customer engagement to help each new hire successfully onboard and demonstrate their skills. Projects and tasks are assigned in a way that leverages your strengths and will help you further develop your skillset.
DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBILITIES
Every position we take is more rewarding when you know the why behind it. Know your work makes a difference to support those who need it most. If your passion is enabling life changing service to those around, you this is the place for you. Find you passion in a team environment where all members are valued regardless of contractor or employee status. Find your “Why” with us and take your place in our Leidos Family!!
- Drive multi tower coordination across Infrastructure, Applications, Network, Security, End User Services, and Cloud teams.
- Act as the primary executive interface for customers, steering committees, and senior stakeholders.
- Define and manage migration waves, dependencies, milestones, and cutover strategies.
- Oversee application migration coordination, ensuring readiness across infra, app, and business teams.
- Lead data center decommissioning strategy, including asset retirement, contract exits, and cost optimization.
- Establish and manage program financials, including budget tracking, forecasts, and benefits realization.
- Identify and drive transformation opportunities, including cloud adoption, consolidation, and modernization.
- Ensure adherence to change management, risk mitigation, and compliance requirements.
- Provide executive level dashboards, presentations, and decision support.
- Mentor and guide project managers and workstream leads across the program. Required Skills & Experience.
- Work with advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts.
- Challenge with working on complex technical problems and providing innovative solutions.
- Work with highly experienced and technical resources
- All other duties as assigned or directed
FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelors degree and 12+ years relevant experience of delivering Infrastructure projects as Project Manager. Additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance.
- Individual has detailed knowledge of initiating, planning and executing DCM related infrastructure projects including DC discovery, design, build and migrate activities within the project
- Detailed understanding of IT Infrastructure project management principles and techniques
- Extensive experience executing complex projects from initiation through to closure
- Extensive experience in baselining and delivering to schedule
- Exceptional risk management skills
- Ability to identify, develop and quantify any required corrective action plans
- Ability to ensure that effective project controls are in place to monitor project or program performance
- Experience in providing effective performance reporting for the client and company in order to monitor the progress of the project.
- Exceptional facilitation and communication skills.
- Able to lead project teams of medium to large scope and high complexity.
FACTORS TO HELP YOU SHINE (Required Skills)
These skills will help you succeed in this position:
- Proven experience leading large scale Data Center Migration or Infrastructure Transformation programs.
- Strong understanding of Data center technologies (compute, storage, network) o Application migration approaches (re host, re platform, re factor) o Cloud migration and hybrid environments.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- Strong financial acumen and experience managing multi million dollar programs.
- Experience working with global delivery and vendor ecosystems.
HOW TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD (Desired Skills)
Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:
- PMP / ITIL certifications
- Strong experience in business transformation, simplification, and modernization with a get stuff done attitude and drive cultural change.
- Experience managing in a complex, matrixed environment and comfortable leading and executing through influence.
- A can-do attitude and an agent to drive velocity and change.
- Agile & Waterfall delivery and tools expertise for complex, enterprise-wide initiatives (i.e., Jira and Confluence).
- Deep expertise in strategic problem-solving and project management.
- Translating technical delivery into actionable communication for senior stakeholders.
- Data Center build out, Neighborhoods, cloud migration, app modernization/transformation and executive communications.
- Subject matter knowledgeable in one or more technical area – Change Integration/Change Delivery, DevSecOps, Infrastructure-As-Code, Virtual Machines, Networking, DMZ, Databases, Storage, Messaging Middleware, API Gateways, Batch/ETL, AI/ML, Mainframe, Public Cloud
- Experience strategically engaging with all levels of professionals and managers across multiple lines of businesses and serve as an experienced advisor to leadership.
- Highly effective and proven consultative leader with strong business and data-driven acumen, to drive continuous improvement in a data-driven way.
At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams and contribute to our communities. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. Every position we take is more rewarding when you know the why behind it. Know your work makes a difference to support those who need it most. If your passion is enabling life changing service to those around, you this is the place for you. Find your passion in a team environment where all members are valued regardless of contractor or employee status. We are excited for you to take your place in our Leidos Family.
Are you an US citizen or US resident candidate and think you might fit? We recommend you apply and start the conversation today! Join us in supporting our SSA contracts in Woodlawn, Maryland.
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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:
March 11, 2026
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:
Pay Range $116,350.00 - $210,325.00
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.
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.
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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.
