Chief Architect

Location: Primarily based in the UAE, with return travel to the UK included as part of an overseas package,

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Role Overview:

The Chief Architect is responsible for providing technical leadership and delivering an innovative product, service, or, at higher levels, a combination of both that addresses a customer's specific business problem. This role is central to a large-scale Supply Chain technology transformation in the Oil and Gas industry, ensuring the design and implementation of a scalable, efficient, and future-proof solution.

The Chief Architect plays a key role in defining the overall technical approach, ensuring alignment with business goals, and driving successful delivery. Your accountability will extend across project start-up, operations, and on-contract growth, working closely with internal and external stakeholders.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Influences development of innovative solutions via using non-quantitative tools, guidelines, past experience and integration of best practice to positively impact strategic client outputs and Leidos business results.
• Impacts functional strategy by developing new solutions, processes, standards or operational plans that position Leidos competitively in the marketplace.
• Recommends and develops new technical solutions, products, and/or standards in support of function’s strategy and operations
• Leads and manages works of other technical staff that has significant impact on project results/outputs. Acting often as a Menor/Coach to other technical staff.
• Resolves highly complex and multi-dimensional problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualising, reasoning and interpretation
• Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership (internally or client) regarding matters of significant importance to the organisation/project
• Works to convince others to accept area’s view/current practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices and approaches
• The candidate is required to be a technical leader, able to coordinate and direct engineering teams in successful delivery and acceptance of the system
• Part of the Technical Management Team responsible for the planning of work packages, allocation of team members and reporting
• Must have in-depth understanding of technical principles, theories, concepts and their application across range of programmes.  Serving as a subject matter expert within their technical domain area. 

Skills Required:

• Substantial prior relevant experience with Masters or Doctorate
• Experience in large scale technology enabled process transformations
• Experience of ERP or Supply chain technologies. E.g. Oracle Fusion, SAP, MS Dynamics, Infor, IBM Sterling OMS, Blue Yonder, Dispatcher, Kinaxis, Coupa
• Knowledge of supply chain process, procedures and technology: Order capture, Inventory management, Warehousing, Order management and planning; Transport Management
• Experienced in Technology delivery for complex system of system architectures 
• Integration technologies: Software AG, Mulesoft IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, APIs
• Cyber Security expertise

Desirable Skills:

• Agile Scrum Development: Collaborating with cross-functional teams to iteratively deliver high-quality solutions; this includes knowledge of Scrum roles, time-boxes, ceremonies, and artifacts. 
• Application Development: Designing software solutions to meet technical and business needs by leveraging knowledge of programming languages, architecture, and technology.  
• Artificial Intelligence (AI): Leveraging advanced methodologies to develop intelligent systems that analyse data, learn from patterns, predict outcomes, and make informed decisions autonomously.  
• Business Analysis: Evaluating business needs and requirements to identify appropriate solutions.  
• Cloud Computing: Managing processing services delivered over the internet; this includes understanding cloud architecture, security controls, and risk. 
• Containerization: Using programs to package code and all its dependencies to allow for consistent deployment across diverse computing environments.  
• DevOps: Employing practices to improve collaboration between development and operations teams; this includes continuous integration and delivery, automation, infrastructure as code, and monitoring.  
• Docker (Software): Designing and managing container applications in the Docker ecosystem.  
• Java: Using the Java programming language to create scalable code and software that support organizational projects. 
• Kubernetes: Using the Kubernetes program to set up, monitor, and modify applications at scale. 

• Microsoft Azure: Leveraging Microsoft Azure to develop cloud-based solutions to address organizational needs.

• Python (Programming Language): Using knowledge of the Python programming language to develop a variety of software solutions to support organizational processes.
• Software Development: Designing computer programs or applications to solve problems or automate processes. 
• Solution Architecture: Designing and overseeing implementation of technical solutions to solve specific business problems or needs. 
• Solutions Design: Creating comprehensive technical solutions that address business needs or optimize processes. 

Clearance Requirements:

• BPSS Pre-screening required to Start

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What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. This unique reward scheme offers:

• Being based in UAE with customer
• 6 weeks in UAE then 2 weeks in UK (subject to customer need).  Possible 6/2wk rotation
• Hotels and food in UAE
• Medical and Dental in UAE
• Travel within UAE
• This is not a Income Tax free expat role at first but may become one in subsequent years.

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture.  We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone.  If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK Logistics & Missions Support - Through thought leadership and innovation, Leidos delivers cutting-edge logistics solutions that mirror the end-to-end experience available from online retailers.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world.  You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team.  We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years.  Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.          

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.