Leidos

Project Manager - 3 month Secondment

2 Locations
Full-time
$123,300.00-$154,100.00
Posted Nov 4, 2026

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About Leidos Australia

At Leidos Australia, our work goes beyond a job title. We design, build, operate and support the systems, services and capabilities that help protect and advance the Australian way of life.

Backed by a global organisation of more than 40,000 people, our Australian team of around 2,000 has partnered with government, defence and national security customers for more than 30 years. We deliver mission-critical solutions where reliability, trust and purpose matter.

Leidos is a destination for people who want their work to have purpose, their contribution to be recognised, and their career to grow without needing to fit a single mould. Meaningful work is supported by benefits, flexibility and career pathways that help you grow while balancing life outside work. This includes:

•Flex Your Way – Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.

•Wellbeing That Matters – Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.

•Learn Without Limits – Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.

•Work That Makes an Impact – Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.

•Build Your Future – Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.

•And Much More – These are just a few of the ways we invest in our people and help them thrive.

About the Team

You’ll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration and commitment. In practice, that means sharing ownership, solving complex problems together and staying connected to the customer context, the purpose behind the work and how each role contributes to meaningful outcomes.

The Civil Digital Modernisation business delivers IT services to Australian Federal and State Government departments and agencies to accelerate digital modernisation and ensure secure, resilient, and adaptive environments that meet evolving regulatory, compliance, and business needs. Our approach integrates advancing data, AI, cloud, and automation delivering agility, security, efficiency, and innovation at scale.

The Opportunity

As the Project Manager – Data Centre Migration & Organisational Change, you will be responsible for the end-to-end planning, coordination and delivery of complex data centre migration activities, with a strong focus on Organisational Change Management, stakeholder readiness and operational transition.

You will coordinate technical and business workstreams through discovery, design, build, migration, cutover, validation and hypercare, helping ensure impacted business and technology teams are prepared for changes to infrastructure, operating processes, support arrangements, responsibilities and service delivery.

Acting as the integration point between technical delivery, business stakeholders, service operations, vendors and change activities, you will help ensure each migration is both technically successful and effectively adopted operationally.

Key responsibilities include:

•Lead end-to-end data centre migration planning and delivery across discovery, design, build, migration, cutover, validation and hypercare, coordinating migration waves, technical dependencies, readiness criteria, go/no-go activities and post-migration reviews.

•Integrate Organisational Change Management into migration delivery through stakeholder and change-impact assessments, organisational-readiness activities, communications, engagement and the ongoing tracking of business and OCM readiness alongside technical readiness.

•Build collaborative relationships across technical teams, application owners, business operations, service management, leadership, vendors and third-party providers, facilitating workshops and establishing clear responsibilities, decision-making and escalation pathways.

•Coordinate business and operational readiness, including business validation, service verification, documentation, runbooks, knowledge transfer, support arrangements, hypercare and transition into BAU operations.

•Maintain project governance across scope, schedule, budget, resources, RAID, dependencies, decisions and milestones, providing clear migration reporting and dashboards covering technical, business and OCM readiness, risks and outcomes.

About You

We are looking for someone who brings judgement, curiosity and a collaborative approach to work that matters.

You will bring:

•Demonstrated experience managing complex data centre migrations, infrastructure transformation or technology transition programs, with strong knowledge of discovery, dependency mapping, migration-wave planning, cutover and hypercare.

•Experience incorporating Organisational Change Management into technology delivery, including stakeholder analysis, change-impact assessments, organisational-readiness assessments and stakeholder communications.

•Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills across technical, operational, business and executive audiences, with an ability to translate technical migration activities into clear business impacts and actions.

•Experience coordinating multidisciplinary infrastructure teams across areas such as network, compute, storage, backup, security, identity and applications, together with an understanding of IT service transition and operational handover.

•Strong project governance, risk management and executive reporting capability, including experience establishing migration readiness criteria and go/no-go processes. Experience with live production data centre migrations, constrained outage windows, formal qualifications such as PMP or PRINCE2, and critical infrastructure, government, utilities or highly regulated environments will be highly regarded.

This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian citizen, hold and be able to maintain a Baseline security clearance.

If this role interests you, we encourage you to apply. We value different experiences and are interested in the capability and potential you could bring.

Certain roles may be subject International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements which may limit persons who hold dual nationality with certain proscribed countries from accessing material, or in the case of dual Australian-U.S citizens, may require the candidate to obtain a U.S. Persons Abroad authorisation from the U.S DDTC.

What to Expect When You Apply

Our hiring process is designed to be straightforward, respectful and easy to navigate. If your skills, experience and qualifications look aligned with the role, our Talent Acquisition team will contact you to discuss the next stage. You can expect:

•An initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition team

•An interview with the hiring manager or interview panel

We’ll let you know what to expect before each stage, including who you’ll meet and how to prepare. If you need any adjustments or support during the process, please let us know.

Ready to explore what’s possible?

If this sounds like a role where you can make an impact and continue to grow, we’d like to hear from you. Please apply via the “Apply Now” button with your resume. If you have any questions about the role or recruitment process, please contact careers.au au.leidos.com.

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:

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.

Pay Range:

$123,300.00-$154,100.00

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 (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.