Applications Development Lead - TS/SCI with Polygraph

About the role

This role is ideal for a Systems Engineer who thrives on driving large-scale transformation and providing technical oversight across full-stack software development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate multiple agile development teams delivering applications across web services, containers, and serverless environments.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for DevSecOps delivery, aligning teams, stakeholders, and leadership on priorities and progress.
• Define and own the DevSecOps roadmap, standards, and best practices for the organization.
• Architect and oversee implementation of multiple CI/CD pipelines supporting diverse applications and technologies.
• Standardize pipeline templates, reusable components, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) modules to enable consistency and reuse.
• Optimize build and deployment performance, reliability, and observability.
• Oversee the design and management of build, test, staging, and production environments across cloud and/or on-prem infrastructure.
• Ensure scalable, resilient, and secure configurations for virtual machines, container platforms (e.g., Kubernetes/EKS/AKS/GKE), and serverless services.
• Integrate security controls into every stage of the pipeline (DevSecOps).
• Collaborate with security and development teams to ensure compliance with security, governance, and regulatory requirements.
• Mentor and coach engineers and scrum teams on DevSecOps, agile delivery, and automation best practices.
• Develop AWS trusted advisor recommendations and AWS engineering standards, so the customer has a unified approach to how it should be implemented.
• Provide AWS cost analysis and reconciliation, cost optimizations, and track savings prior to and after making changes while maintaining expected levels of performance and availability.
• Stay current with industry trends, tools, and practices in DevSecOps, CI/CD, cloud platforms, containers, and serverless, and recommend improvements.
• Monitor team roadmaps and delivery milestones.
• Identify blockers and risks impacting delivery.
• Conduct root cause analysis when teams miss objectives.
• Track AWS cost metrics for optimization opportunities.
• Assess team delivery health using Jira velocity metrics.
• Manage pilot programs (completion-based contract pilot, AI implementation pilot) and gather and analyze pilot data for program decisions.
• Translate technical issues into executive-level communications.
• Lead ServiceNow workflow optimization for requirements management.
• Identify and implement process improvements.
• Serve as technical advisor to division leadership on strategic initiatives.
• Participate in executive meetings requiring deep technical expertise.
• Bridge communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of related experience.
• 3+ years of experience leading multiple agile teams or acting as a release train engineer, delivery manager, or similar leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines for complex applications.
• Hands-on experience with: CI/CD tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, ArgoCD), source control and branching strategies (Git, trunk-based, GitFlow, etc.), cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and associated services for VMs, containers, and serverless, containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, AKS, EKS, GKE), serverless architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions), and infrastructure as Code (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps practices, including automated security testing and compliance integration.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating and integrating AI-enabled development tools, with the ability to identify automation opportunities, improve developer workflows, and guide responsible AI adoption within complex software environments.
• Demonstrated experience working with ServiceNow and its core capabilities, including integrating workflows managing platform configuration, and leveraging their solutions to support enterprise development operational needs.

Skills

• Agile Software Development
• Continuous Delivery
• DevSecOps

Benefits

Sign-on Bonus available.

Pay

The likely salary range for this position is $179,812 - $243,276. 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.

Schedule

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.