Description
Obsolescence Manager
Location: Huntingdon, UK
Clearance level - High - (DV) Developed Vetting
UNLEASH YOUR POTENTIAL
As the QDC Portfolio Obsolescence Manager, encompassing the three service elements, you will act as the focal point for portfolio-level obsolescence management, ensuring lifecycle risks are identified, assessed, managed, and reported in accordance with the principles of BS EN IEC 62402:2019 and ITSM good practice.
The QDC Portfolio Obsolescence Manager will be accountable to the Chief Engineer for ensuring that obsolescence risks, issues, and opportunities are captured, assessed, escalated, and governed through the appropriate portfolio, programme, service-management, and change-control routes. The role will also liaise with Architecture, Engineering, ITAM, Service Configuration Management, and Service Design stakeholders to ensure that new or changed hardware, software, firmware, applications, and third-party components are considered against the agreed Obsolescence Management strategies, Obsolescence Management Plan, and service lifecycle requirements.
You will proactively identify items that are obsolete, approaching end-of-life, end-of-sale, end-of-support, or otherwise at risk of reduced availability, supportability, maintainability, compliance, or service continuity. You will assess and communicate the associated operational, cyber-security, commercial, contractual, and service risks, producing evidence-based customer reports that support clear decisions on risk acceptance, residual-risk treatment, or funded remediation.
You will work closely with the wider portfolio, including Commercial, Finance, PMO, IT Asset Management, Service Configuration Management, Core Service, Security/Cyber, Service Architecture, Agile Change teams, suppliers, and wider Engineering entities, to identify, assess, prioritise, and resolve lifecycle and obsolescence risks throughout the asset, configuration item, service, and system lifecycle.
The role is based on a customer site near Huntington (3-4 days per week), with travel to other customer sites and the Leidos Farnborough office.
Develop, implement, maintain, and continually improve an Obsolescence Management Plan (OMP) aligned to the Obsolescence Management Policy, contractual obligations, regulatory requirements, customer outcomes, service-management controls, and BS EN IEC 62402 principles.
Identify, assess, classify, and monitor obsolescence for configuration items and technology assets, including hardware, software, operating systems, firmware, applications, infrastructure components, and third-party products, using lifecycle intelligence such as vendor roadmaps, end-of-life notices, end-of-support dates, and support-policy changes.
Maintain obsolescence registers, lifecycle records, configuration and asset data, risk assessments, treatment plans, decision records, and residual-risk positions, ensuring defined ownership, review cadence, governance, and timely escalation of critical risks.
Perform obsolescence impact assessments for obsolete or at-risk items, including service impact, dependency and compatibility constraints, security exposure, availability and maintainability implications, compliance considerations, workaround requirements, and operational support consequences.
Lead and coordinate obsolescence mitigation and resolution strategies such as last-time buys, alternative sourcing, approved substitutions, upgrade paths, redesign, requalification, repair solutions, extended-support agreements, risk treatment, or service re-architecture.
Work with Engineering, Architecture, and Design teams to identify and validate replacement options (form-fit-function replacements, approved alternatives, or modern equivalents), including compatibility, security, supportability, and service impact.
Define replacement and remediation recommendations with an implementation view, including change category, implementation steps, prerequisite changes, testing and validation needs, release and deployment considerations, service-transition impact, and high-level effort or cost drivers to support funded-change decisions.
Engage with suppliers to understand product lifecycle status, roadmaps, and end‑of‑life notifications.
Support programme bids, cost models, and business cases by providing obsolescence impact assessments.
Facilitate customer and portfolio decision-making by presenting options for risk acceptance, risk treatment, residual-risk ownership, and funded remediation; maintain traceability of decisions, approvals, assumptions, controls, and agreed actions.
Ensure compliance with customer, contractual, and regulatory requirements related to obsolescence management.
Provide customer-facing reporting packs (e.g. monthly/quarterly) showing obsolete/at-risk products, affected locations/services, risk ratings, support implications, and recommended actions.
Contribute to continual improvement of obsolescence-management processes, lifecycle-data quality, service-management controls, reporting packs, governance forums, and toolsets.
Provide technical assurance on packaging/installation standards (approved versions, dependencies, hardening, and supportability) so remediation actions do not introduce new lifecycle or security risk.
Assess and communicate the impact of proposed changes through the change enablement lifecycle, including compatibility, regression and validation needs, support status, configuration baseline impact, release and deployment considerations, and downstream service impact, providing inputs to CAB or the relevant Change Authority as required
What does Leidos need from me?
Develop, implement, govern, and continually improve the Obsolescence Management Plan across the enterprise, together with proactive and reactive obsolescence strategies that minimise lifecycle risk and provide controlled mitigation, resolution, or risk-treatment options.
Provide obsolescence-management input at programme, technical, service-management, and support meetings, and chair the Obsolescence Working Group to drive governance, prioritisation, decision-making, and action tracking.
Produce, maintain, and communicate the Obsolescence Management Forecast, including emerging lifecycle risks, forecasted end-of-support events, affected services, risk ratings, mitigation options, and decision points.
Proven experience and Knowledge of obsolescence/lifecycle management within a complex IT or operational technology estate.
Strong technical understanding across hardware, operating systems, applications, and infrastructure components, including integration, dependencies, and service delivery impact.
Working knowledge of ITIL and ITSM practices, particularly IT Asset Management, Service Configuration Management, Change Enablement, Incident Management, Problem Management, Risk Management, Knowledge Management, and Continual Improvement, including how configuration and lifecycle data underpins effective service-management controls.
Experience working within regulated or high-assurance environments and producing evidence-based reporting for customer and audit stakeholders.
Ability to analyse technical, operational, and commercial data to assess risk, determine service impact, and recommend practical mitigation or replacement options.
Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence decisions across multi-disciplinary teams (operations, engineering, security, procurement, and customer).
Experience engaging vendors/suppliers for lifecycle information (EoL/EoS notices, support options, roadmaps) and translating this into actionable plans.
Excellent communication and reporting skills, including the ability to produce clear Obsolescence Impact Reports, risk summaries, and recommendations for non-technical audiences.
Desired Skills
Knowledge of industry standards and best practice for obsolescence management, particularly BS EN IEC 62402, including obsolescence-management policy, organisational infrastructure, OMP development, proactive design strategies, risk-based management approaches, resolution selection, implementation, measurement, and continual improvement.
Experience with obsolescence management tools or lifecycle databases such as Diamond OM.
Understanding of ITSM service configuration management, configuration baselines, CI relationships, asset records, change enablement, release and deployment controls, and auditability.
Commercial awareness, including cost modelling and total lifecycle cost considerations.
Experience in ITSM and ITAM tooling such as:
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What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
Contributory Pension Scheme
Private Medical Insurance
33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
Flexi-TIme
Commitment to Diversity:
We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.
Who We Are:
Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.
Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.
What Makes Us Different:
Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.
Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.
People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.
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.
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.
£61,500.00-£78,800.00
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.
About Leidos
Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
Pay and Benefits
Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.
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Commitment to Non-Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.
