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.
Primary Responsibilities
MES Administration & Configuration
- Serve as a technical subject matter expert for the enterprise MES platform and supporting technology environment.
- Administer and configure MES capabilities supporting workflows, manufacturing plans, bills of material, work instructions, production records, data collection, material traceability, and user access.
- Maintain system configurations, application settings, permissions, interfaces, and supporting technical components.
- Monitor system health, performance, capacity, logs, jobs, databases, and data integrity and proactively address technical issues.
- Support application patching, upgrades, environment maintenance, backup/recovery, and lifecycle management activities.
Implementation, Deployment & Integration
- 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.
Production Support & Problem Resolution
- 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.
Technical Leadership & Continuous Improvement
- 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.
Basic 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Significant administration, implementation, or technical support experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems, preferably iBase-t Solumina.
- Experience with PTC Windchill PLM, Deltek Costpoint ERP, eQube-MI, or eQube-BI.
- Experience supporting integrations and transactional data flows among MES, PLM, ERP, planning, and engineering systems.
- Experience with SQL Server, Oracle, SQL development/querying, database troubleshooting, and data analysis.
- Experience supporting highly available, business-critical manufacturing production environments.
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes including routings, work instructions, BOMs, production records, material traceability, and configuration control.
- Experience with application performance monitoring, automation, scripting, or system health monitoring.
- Experience supporting aerospace, defense, regulated manufacturing, or other mission-critical environments.
If you are selected for interview:
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About Leidos
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. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Original Posting:September 22, 2026For 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.
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.
Skills Required
- U.S. citizenship
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline with 12-15 years of relevant experience
- Master's degree with 10-13 years of relevant experience may be accepted in place of a bachelor's degree
- Additional relevant experience may substitute for 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
- 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
- Significant administration, implementation, or technical support experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems, preferably iBase-t Solumina
- Experience with PTC Windchill PLM, Deltek Costpoint ERP, eQube-MI, or eQube-BI
- Experience supporting integrations and transactional data flows among MES, PLM, ERP, planning, and engineering systems
- Experience with SQL Server, Oracle, SQL development/querying, database troubleshooting, and data analysis
- Experience supporting highly available, business-critical manufacturing production environments
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes including routings, work instructions, bills of material, production records, material traceability, and configuration control
- Experience with application performance monitoring, automation, scripting, or system health monitoring
- Experience supporting aerospace, defense, regulated manufacturing, or other mission-critical environments
Leidos Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Leidos and has not been reviewed or approved by Leidos.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, with multiple plan options, low office-visit copays in some plans, and access to mental health and wellness support tools. The availability of HSA/FSA options and employer contributions is positioned as a meaningful part of the total package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are framed as a strong component of total rewards, highlighted by a 401(k) match and immediate vesting in the standard package. The Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also presented as an additional long-term wealth-building feature.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle supports extend beyond core insurance, including wellness programs, fitness-related stipends, and assistance resources. Work flexibility and related perks are also included as part of the broader rewards experience.
Leidos Insights
What We Do
We Are Leidos For 50 years we have been tackling some of the biggest problems that face our nation and our world. OUR MISSION Through our culture of innovation and history of performance, we develop deep customer trust built on integrity and create enduring solutions that improve our world. Leidos is a science and technology solutions leader working to address some of the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and healthcare markets. The company’s 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $11.09 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2020. Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®. Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the newly launched Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos. Your most important work is ahead.
