[Hiring] Enterprise MES Technical Lead @Leidos

Role Description

The Digital Thread Systems team, within our Chief Information Office and reporting through our Digital sector, is seeking an Enterprise MES Technical Lead to help scale Leidos manufacturing for the future by modernizing the systems, integrations, and infrastructure that connect product development to product realization. Our team enables the digital thread that moves critical product and manufacturing information across engineering, planning, and production – helping teams turn product designs into producible, deliverable solutions.

You will serve as the technical subject matter expert for the enterprise Manufacturing Execution System and its supporting technology environment. The role is responsible for the administration, configuration, technical health, performance, maintenance, and production support of MES capabilities that enable manufacturing operations. This position provides technical leadership for MES implementations, upgrades, deployments, integrations, and production issue resolution while ensuring the platform remains reliable, supportable, and aligned with enterprise technology standards. The Technical Lead works across Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, business applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, suppliers, and other technology teams to sustain and evolve the enterprise MES capability.

Location: This position allows for full-time telework from any U.S. based location.

Citizenship: US Citizenship is required.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline with 12–15 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree with 10–13 years of relevant experience. Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree where permitted by the applicable job profile.
• Significant experience administering, configuring, supporting, or implementing complex enterprise applications.
• Experience troubleshooting complex application, database, performance, configuration, and integration issues.
• Experience supporting enterprise application upgrades, patches, deployments, testing, and production releases.
• Working knowledge of relational databases, SQL, application architecture, and enterprise system integrations.
• Experience performing root-cause analysis and developing solutions to complex technical problems.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate technical activities across infrastructure, database, cybersecurity, application, supplier, and business teams.
• Ability to communicate complex technical issues, risks, and recommendations to technical and senior leadership audiences.

Requirements

• Provide technical leadership for MES implementations, upgrades, configuration changes, testing, deployment, go-live, and hypercare.
• Translate functional requirements into viable technical configurations and implementation approaches in coordination with functional leadership.
• Support technical interfaces and data flows between MES and PLM, ERP, integration middleware, planning, reporting, and engineering systems.
• Coordinate deployment activities across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Evaluate technical impacts and dependencies associated with proposed MES changes.
• Provide technical leadership for complex MES incidents, production issues, and user-impacting problems.
• Troubleshoot issues involving routings, work instructions, BOMs, production records, data collection, integrations, system performance, and material traceability.
• Perform root-cause analysis of recurring application, database, configuration, and integration issues and implement corrective or preventive solutions.
• Coordinate resolution activities across internal technology teams, business stakeholders, and software suppliers.
• Maintain technical documentation, configuration standards, operational procedures, and support knowledge.
• Recommend technical solutions, standards, and platform improvements that increase MES reliability, performance, scalability, and supportability.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to administrators and other technical staff supporting MES.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, database, and integration teams to ensure MES aligns with enterprise standards.
• Identify opportunities to automate administrative, monitoring, deployment, and support activities.

Benefits

• 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 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.

Company Description

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.

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.