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:
IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
IT Leadership, Software Development Life Cycle Management, Status Reporting
Certifications:
None
Experience:
10 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes

Job Description:

Ensure the safety and security of our nation as a Portfolio Lead at GDIT. You'll apply the latest technology and provide operational support to deliver actionable intelligence for the Intelligence Community. Here, your work will have meaning and impact as you deliver your best every day.

DESCRIPTION:

• Able to articulate past experience leading a technical evaluation of software development projects that include reviewing requirements to ensure system compatibility for optimal system performance. Candidate should be able to collaborate with business users to triage requirements and perform current state system analysis. Additionally, the Portfolio Lead should have the ability to complete written functional and technical specifications of modern and legacy systems, provide weekly status reports regarding security assessment status, and software release and integration initiatives.
• Candidate should have comprehensive past performance establishing integrated project team structure and assignments, and experience leading, directing and managing enterprise IT system development/engineering efforts.
• Candidate will work developers, systems engineers and security engineers in an Agile Development environment to deliver business features, technical enhancements and artifacts to support security compliance.
• Candidate will possess strong foundational understanding of modern web-based application architectures, AWS Cloud computing services and demonstrate the ability to develop the technical documentation needed to support security compliance.
• Candidate will be required to respond to customer assigned tasks and produce responses within customer mandated deadlines. The candidate should be able to address ad-hoc taskings quickly demonstrating a depth of understanding of the business processes and technical architecture of applications within their portfolio.
• Stay current with emerging technologies to determine impact on application/system integration and execution. Draft project briefings, conceptual whitepapers, program planning, and other foundation documents examining any applicable technologies.
• Overseeing/providing guidance to peer and subordinate staff and develop strategic plans for current and future activities. Experience managing a team of ~15 employees.
• WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:/
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.
• Required Experience: 10+ years
• Required Technical Skills:
• Foundational understanding of Agile Development processes and ceremonies. Deep understanding of AWS services and application architectures using these services. A solid understanding of how to optimize AWS services to reduce cloud computing costs. Solid understanding of the customer's A&A processes and the ability to guide systems through the process. The ability to incorporate customer mandated technical directives into existing systems.
• Required Skills and Abilities:
• Providing weekly status reports regarding security assessment status, plus software release and integration initiatives.
• Working with Agile Development teams to ensure business and technical requirements are integrated into product backlogs
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage development teams. Ability to become the POC for portfolio related issues, both technical and non-technical.
• Respond to customer taskings across a wide range of topics and provide responses within mandated time frames.
• Drafting project briefings, conceptual whitepapers, program planning, and other foundational documents.
• Overseeing/providing guidance to peer and subordinate staff and developing strategic plans for current and future activities. Experience managing a team of ~20 employees.
• Researching emerging technologies to determine impact on application/system integration and execution.
• Drafting project briefings, conceptual whitepapers, program planning, and other foundational documents.
• Security Clearance Level: Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph
• Location: Chantilly, VA (On Customer Site)
• US Citizenship Required

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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The likely salary range for this position is $162,037 - $219,227. 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.