Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None

Public Trust/Other Required:
None

Job Family:
Program Delivery and Execution

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Cost Management, IT Program Management, Profitability
Certifications:
None
Experience:
5 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes

Job Description:

PROGRAM DIRECTOR

• Own overall program performance, serving as the single point of accountability for technical, cost, and schedule outcomes across all software and infrastructure efforts.
• Provide steady, proactive oversight, keeping projects on track and quickly resolving implementation issues before they become bigger problems.
• Build and lead a resilient team, staffing the effort with cleared, qualified personnel who stay current with evolving technologies and can flex to meet changing mission needs.
• Drive transparent, consistent reporting, keeping status, cost, schedule, and performance visible through regular reviews and structured status updates.
• Foster strong working relationships across organizational and agency boundaries, representing the program in technical exchanges, governance reviews, and leadership briefings.
• Plan for continuity, mitigating single-threaded risk and ensuring smooth transitions whether staff turnover or the program itself changes hands.
• Champion quality and process discipline, embedding QA practices aligned to industry standards (ITIL/CMMI) into how the team operates.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Bring your program management expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The Program Director must have:

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
• Experience: 5+ years of related experience
• Security clearance level: TS/SCI with Polygraph
• US citizenship required
• Critical Core Competencies:

Cloud Services - Preferred certification in cloud technologies utilized by the Customer, such as AWS, Azure, Oracle and Google

Event Bus Programming - Has experience with publish/subscribe technologies and messaging products such as Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, and/or Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS).

Security Clearance Requirements: Most positions will require an active TS/SCI w/ Poly.

The likely salary range for this position is $228,650 - $309,350. 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:
Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:
Onsite

Work Location:
USA VA Chantilly

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.