Director, Innovation – Deployment

Job Description:

• Lead the organization responsible for evolving how Leidos Energy creates and delivers differentiated value through technology
• Identify problems and opportunities where technology can materially improve outcomes
• Prioritize opportunities based on value, feasibility, risk, implementation effort, and scalability
• Rapidly determine whether opportunities should be scaled, redirected, or stopped
• Lead rapid development, experimentation, prototyping, and testing
• Determine whether to build, buy, configure, integrate, partner, or reuse capabilities
• Incorporate users and operational realities throughout development
• Own the path from identified opportunity through operational deployment
• Address technical, security, workflow, adoption, and organizational requirements for successful use
• Partner with Operations & Sustainment to transition capabilities into ongoing operation and support
• Establish a repeatable approach for moving from problem to evidence to deployed capability
• Manage the organization, portfolio, resources, investments, and partnerships
• Provide Energy CTO and Business Area leadership with insight into opportunities, progress, risk, investment, and realized value
• Build an effective, engaged team and develop people and leaders across the combined Energy organization

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or a related technical discipline and 12+ years of relevant professional experience; equivalent combination of education and experience considered
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing technical organizations and multidisciplinary teams, including developing technical leaders
• Demonstrated record of taking multiple technology capabilities, improvements, or technology-enabled changes from concept or experimentation through successful operational deployment
• Demonstrated ability to identify high-value problems, evaluate alternative approaches, and use evidence to scale, redirect, or stop technology investments
• Ability to communicate technology choices, evidence, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to senior business and technical leaders and lead effectively across organizational boundaries
• Preferred: Master’s degree in a relevant technical or business discipline
• Preferred: Deep understanding of energy, utility, engineering, or another engineering-intensive business
• Preferred: Experience rapidly developing and scaling technology-enabled improvements within a complex or highly governed organization
• Preferred: Experience operating successfully in a large, matrixed organization