Senior Migration Architect

About the role

Join us in transforming how technology serves those who serve. At Leidos, we're not just delivering solutions – we're pioneering the future of defense and intelligence technology. Our diverse teams of innovators unite around a singular purpose: empowering our customers to succeed in their critical missions. We believe in leading with integrity, investing in our communities, and building sustainably for tomorrow. Shape the future of digital defense.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Migration & Modernization: Lead complex cloud migration projects from planning through execution.
• Assess existing IT infrastructure and legacy applications to determine cloud readiness.
• Design modernization strategies including containerization and microservices.
• Develop migration methodologies and ensure minimal organizational disruption during transitions.
• Facilitate customer onboarding and implement a consistent pathway to cloud adoption.
• Optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments.
• Design scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions for legacy systems/capabilities to migrate to AWS or Azure platforms.
• Create cloud strategy and roadmaps aligned with organization objectives and technical requirements.
• Create reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards for cloud implementations.
• Lead architectural reviews and provide guidance on complex technical decisions.
• Technical Leadership: Serve as a primary technical authority on migrating legacy, on-prem systems to the cloud.
• Mentor, guide and supervise legacy system technology teams while migrating their environments.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and assess their potential impact on organizational goals.
• Drive adoption of DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks.
• Security & Compliance: Design secure cloud architectures implementing zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth strategies.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.) and regulatory requirements.
• Cost Management & Optimization: Monitor and optimize cloud spending through rightsizing, reserved instances, and automation.
• Implement cost allocation strategies and provide regular cost analysis and recommendations.
• Establish governance frameworks for cloud resource management.

Qualifications

• Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related technical field.
• Preferred Education: Master's degree in Computer Science, Cloud Computing, or MBA with technical background.
• Must currently hold an active DOD Secret clearance.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Experience Requirements: 8+ years of overall IT experience, 8+ years of hands-on cloud architecture and implementation experience, 4+ years of experience with both AWS and Azure platforms.
• Proven track record of managing cloud transformation projects exceeding $1M in scope.
• Expertise In Azure and AWS (Certifications): AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Cross-Platform Expertise: Design patterns for multi-cloud and hybrid architectures, Cloud-to-cloud integration and data synchronization strategies.
• Cost optimization across multiple cloud providers, Migration Services Expertise: The 6 R's framework (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Rearchitect, Retire, Retain), Wave-based migration planning and execution.
• Infrastructure and DevOps Qualifications: Infrastructure as Code: Terraform for multi-cloud deployments, AWS CloudFormation and Azure ARM templates, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef for configuration management, GitOps workflows and version control for infrastructure, DevOps and Automation: CI/CD pipeline design using Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions, Container orchestration with Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, or managed services.
• Security and Compliance Expertise: Security Frameworks, Cloud security posture management (CSPM), Identity and access management (IAM) best practices, Compliance Standards: SOC 2 Type II compliance implementation, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS regulatory requirements, Industry-specific standards (FedRAMP, FISMA for government).

Skills

• Communication and Leadership: Ability to present complex technical concepts to C-level executives.
• Experience mentoring junior architects and engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and consensus-building skills.
• Technical writing and documentation expertise.
• Consulting Skills: Understanding of cloud economics and ROI calculations, Experience with vendor negotiations and contract management, Ability to align technical solutions with business objectives, Knowledge of ITIL or other IT service management frameworks.

Benefits

Pay Range: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.