Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret/SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret/SCI

Public Trust/Other Required:
None

Job Family:
Program Delivery and Execution

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Business Cases, Business Processes, Collaboration, Deliverables Management, Functional Requirements
Certifications:
None
Experience:
10 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes

Job Description:

PROJECT/TASK MANAGER

GDIT is seeking an experienced Cloud PM with strong strategic analysis, enterprise planning, and delivery-focused functional analysis expertise to support our PPS Modernization Program. This role blends high-level strategic capability with deep hands-on functional analysis needed for large-scale modernization, cloud migration, and process transformation initiatives.

Role Overview
The Cloud PM serves as a strategic advisor, translating executive priorities into actionable roadmaps while ensuring functional requirements for complex IT systems are fully defined, analyzed, and validated. This position operates across both strategic planning and system delivery workstreams-shaping early-phase initiatives, conducting business and capability modeling, and driving requirements through the full modernization lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Analysis & Enterprise Planning
• Collaborate with executive stakeholders to define business problems, strategic objectives, and high-level solution approaches for modernization.
• Develop and present business cases, including business process automation, analysis, and recommendations.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Product Strategy, and Portfolio Governance teams to create and maintain strategic roadmaps.
• Evaluate business processes at the macro level using enterprise capability mapping, value stream analysis, and process decomposition.
• Facilitate strategic workshops, decision forums, and prioritization sessions with senior leadership.
• Shape the initial scope, objectives, and success criteria for new modernization initiatives before transition to delivery teams.
• Ensure alignment between strategy, technology, modernization goals, and organizational priorities.
• Provide expert guidance to clients recommending functional and strategic improvements.
• Deliver recommendations, analyses, and briefings to senior-level stakeholders.
• Develop clear, executive-ready communication materials-including strategic briefs, decision papers, roadmap narratives, and modernization storylines-to support alignment across senior leadership.
• Translate complex technical and functional concepts into concise, well-structured visual artifacts (e.g., capability maps, transformation diagrams, decision models) to enable informed decision-making.
• Create internal communication frameworks that ensure cross-team understanding of modernization objectives, priorities, and impacts.
• Establish communication rhythms (program updates, cross-team syncs, leadership briefs) that increase transparency and reduce ambiguity across delivery and strategy workstreams.
• Drive information design for program initiatives, ensuring roadmaps, process flows, and conceptual models are coherent, accessible, and tailored to diverse stakeholder audiences.

Functional Analysis & Delivery Support
• Analyze user needs to determine functional requirements for a wide variety of projects and highlights areas of improvement.
• Utilize advanced, highly complex modeling and measuring techniques. Performs functional modeling based on requirements analysis.
• Direct functional testing of various projects or systems.
• Research, identify, and recommend resources required for task execution and completion.
• Develop new functionality or updates the existing, to meet client needs.
• Write and update project documentation including procedures, presentations, and training materials.
• Perform functional allocations to identify tasks and their inter-relationships.
• Consult with clients to determine optimum design for assigned projects.
• May serve as team or task lead. (Not a people manager)
• Serve as advisor to clients in assigned subject areas, recommends functional changes, and identifies areas for further investigation.
• Generate recommendations in the form of briefings, reports, and other major documents provided to senior level client personnel.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education:

• Bachelors Degree in related field
• PMP Certification

Required Experience:

• Minimum 10 years of experience, including at least 8 years specialized in IT system functional analysis, preferably supporting cloud or large-scale modernization efforts.

Required Skills & Abilities:

• Demonstrated experience in strategic analysis, enterprise planning, or business consulting.
• Superior functional knowledge of modernization programs and complex, integrated IT systems.
• Strong analytical abilities (market research, financial analysis, modeling, capability assessments).
• Expertise in defining, documenting, and managing complex business rules.
• Experience using Agile tools and processes, including Jira.
• Ability to communicate complex strategy and functional concepts to senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge of enterprise business architecture, capability models, and portfolio management.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in Mainframe Business Process Re-engineering.
• Experience in zCloud and AWS/Azure Cloud Modernization.
• Familiarity with BPA tools and BPMN, CMN, DMN modeling.
• Experience leveraging Generative AI for documenting requirements and business rules.
• Experience in Agile methodology for modernization initiatives.
• MBA or related advanced degree.
• Prior experience in portfolio governance or enterprise strategy.
• PMI Agile Certified Practioner (PMI-ACP) preferred

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

• 40

Location:

• On Customer Site - Ft Liberty, NC

Clearance:

• TS/SCI

Citizenship Required:

• US Citizenship

The likely salary range for this position is $106,250 - $143,750. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
10-25%

Telecommuting Options:
Onsite

Work Location:
USA NC Fort Bragg

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.