About the role
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, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. 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. We use a wide range of capabilities in Digital Modernization , Mission Software Systems , and enabling technologies including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to support our customers' most critical and complex missions, from human spaceflight and polar science to energy research, nuclear security, environmental restoration, and the civilian systems that serve the public. Our team's focus is ensuring our Government Services customers have the right solutions to operate, sustain, and modernize the missions that the nation depends on. To explore and learn more, click here ! The Health and Services Sector Office of Technology at Leidos currently has an opening for a Government Services CTO to lead growth opportunities in our Government Services Business Area. This is an exciting opportunity to use industry experience to deliver innovative solutions that help our customers transform and modernize mission operations across NASA, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and federal civilian and state agencies. 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 across exploration, environment, energy, polar operations, and civilian mission markets. In addition, the Government Services CTO 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. Preference is for this person to be local to the DC Metro area to be able to be in meetings in Reston, VA. Periodic travel to customer and program sites is expected. Primary Responsibilities: Responsibilities include engaging in customer shaping efforts, requirements gathering, and proposal support activities, leveraging understanding of industry trends and Leidos capabilities for solution development and system integration within the Government Services domain: Conduct market research and technology comparisons for mission operations, research enterprise, environmental, logistics, and civilian mission processes and tools, tracking industry trends and assessing technologies for fit within customer environments. Contribute to customer engagements with NASA, DOE/NNSA, NSF, USACE, NAVFAC, NOAA, USGS, and federal civilian and state health agencies; analyzing customer needs and aligning them with industry trends and Leidos solution offerings. 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. Partner with Business Development staff to understand and participate in the development of new business strategy, assessing current and future skills and technology needs. Organizes project and task workloads and selects individuals most qualified for assignments on specific projects. Directs technical organization to ensure progress according to technical specifications, campaign strategies, and business objectives. Develop solutions that are highly innovative and achieved through research and integration of best practices, including mission operations, remote site and supply chain logistics, geospatial and environmental data, and secure enterprise IT. Participate in the identification of new technologies and lead investment projects focused on using those technologies to develop repeatable solutions that increase Leidos differentiation. Determine relevancy and customer impact of emerging technologies such as AI/ML, digital twins, autonomy, and advanced analytics across Government Services missions. Support customer and stakeholder meetings and technical discussions. Leading Internal Research and Development (IRAD) activities in the Government Services domain to include Project Manager/Principal Investigator (PM/PI) functions for our most complex IRAD efforts. This includes managing cost and schedule to achieve the outcomes set forth in the beginning of the year. Act as a subject matter expert in the translation of solution requirements into design documentation. Provide direction on a variety of design decisions including solution evaluation and selection, buy vs. build vs. reuse questions, early-phase project estimates, platform selection, and technical designs. 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 of 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. Requires US Citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance (Secret or DOE L). 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 complex mission system definition, design, integration and delivery for federal customers. 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. 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. Experience developing and reviewing BOM and BOEs for complex solutions. Experience with reviewing proposal contents including draft reviews, red team reviews, risk reviews, etc. Implementation experience with one or more of the following: AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP. Experience implementing DevSecOps in a cloud environment. Preferred Qualifications: Active DOE Q or Top Secret clearance. Operational or technical experience in one or more Government Services mission areas: human spaceflight operations, environmental compliance and restoration, earth science and geospatial intelligence, energy research, nuclear security, remote site operations and logistics, or civilian/public health systems. Working knowledge of NASA, DOE/NNSA, NSF, DoD environmental, or federal civilian agency missions and acquisition environments. Previous experience managing complex solution development efforts/contracts, including operations and maintenance or management and operating (M&O) contracts. Demonstrated ability to work across internal functions, subcontractors, and outside entities to facilitate successful product completion/delivery. Experience with Data Analytics, modern data platforms, and large-scale scientific or geospatial data processing. Experience using modern digital engineering practices to include MBSE knowledge on development or integration programs. 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: October 22, 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 $154,050.00 - $278,475.00 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.