[Hiring] Director, Innovation & Deployment @Leidos

Role Description

The Director, Innovation & Deployment leads the organization responsible for evolving how Leidos Energy creates and delivers differentiated value through technology. The team identifies opportunities to improve the business and its market value proposition through:

• New technology
• Better application of existing technology
• Changes to how technology is used, develops, and tests solutions
• Communicating value propositions internally and externally
• Deploying successful capabilities into operational use

The opportunity is to build a repeatable capability for turning promising ideas and technology into operational advantage—moving quickly from problem to evidence to deployed solution. This leader will help shape the technology organization for the combined Leidos Energy business, bringing together the capabilities, experience, and strengths of Leidos and ENTRUST.

Success is measured by valuable capabilities reaching operational use and producing meaningful improvement—not by the number of technologies evaluated or prototypes produced.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• Establish a repeatable approach that reduces the time and friction required to move from problem to evidence to deployed capability.
• Manage the organization, portfolio, resources, investments, and partnerships necessary to deliver the mission.
• Provide the Energy CTO and Business Area leadership with clear insight into opportunities, progress, risk, investment, and realized value.
• Build an effective, engaged team by bringing together existing capabilities, developing people and leaders, and creating opportunities for talent across the combined Energy organization.

Benefits

• 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 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.

Leadership Expectations

• Start with the problem, not the technology.
• Select technology based on the outcome to be improved, not its novelty.
• Bias toward working solutions.
• Learn quickly through building, testing, and evidence.
• Own deployment.
• Innovation creates value when capabilities reach operational use.
• Learn and simplify.
• Scale what works, change or stop what does not, and avoid unnecessary technology complexity.
• Operate as one technology organization.
• Apply capabilities and resources across team and organizational boundaries to achieve the best business outcome.

Original Posting

October 2, 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.