Information Systems Manager - TS/SCI with Polygraph

About the role

Why GDIT: You’ll be part of an elite team at GDIT working on a large-scale, pioneering National Intelligence program. This role fuses innovation, speed, and security to safeguard the Nation. You’ll thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment where your technical skills are challenged and expanded. Engage with cutting-edge technologies and contemporary development practices in support of a vital mission, addressing some of the most intricate security and operational challenges facing Intelligence and Homeland Security today.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Strategy & Rationalization
  • Assess existing projects, systems, and capabilities across all six Task Orders to identify redundancies/overlaps and gaps relative to customer mission, priorities, and emerging needs.
  • Recommend consolidation, decommissioning, or modernization paths to optimize the portfolio.
  • Align technical investments with program and sponsor mission objectives, future-state architecture, and roadmap.
• AI Insertion & Technology Modernization
  • Evaluate where AI and advanced automation can add measurable value (e.g., software development, testing, operations, analytics).
  • Define AI insertion strategies and implementation roadmaps, including use cases, expected outcomes, and integration patterns with existing systems and services.
  • Provide technical guidance to Task Order teams to ensure AI capabilities are responsibly designed, secure, explainable where required, and aligned with customer policies.
  • Ensure new AI-enabled solutions integrate effectively with the existing technical ecosystem.
  • Responsible for Innovation report (CDRL).
• Continuous Improvement & Innovation Framework
  • Establish and maintain frameworks, metrics, and best practices that promote increased delivery efficiency and quality, reduction of technical debt, and repeatable, scalable technical patterns across Task Orders.
  • Facilitate cross-team collaboration (TO leads, Solution Architects, Lead Agilist, QA/Mission Assurance) to share lessons learned, reusable components, and improvement ideas.
  • Drive adoption of modern engineering practices (e.g., DevSecOps, CI/CD, test automation, observability).
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining all technical CDRLs.
• Culture of Optimization and Customer Outcomes
  • Champion a culture that continually seeks to optimize technical performance and delivery processes, enhance customer mission outcomes and user experience, and modernize legacy components and workflows.
  • Partner with PMO leadership and Task Order Leads to ensure engineering decisions are tied to measurable business and mission impacts.
• Legacy SOW Transition to New Target Platform
  • Lead the technical transition of legacy Statements of Work to the “new” environment or analogous new platform/architecture.
  • Define the end-to-end transition approach, including technical decomposition of legacy solutions, migration paths, dependencies, and risk mitigation strategies.
  • Ensure unified strategic vision and coherent architecture across all transitioning efforts.
• Sponsor Collaboration & Transparent Transition Management
  • Collaborate closely with the sponsor and key stakeholders to provide transparent visibility into transition plans, progress, and risks.
  • Align expectations and obtain timely feedback on architectural decisions.
  • Ensure transitions are executed with minimal disruption to ongoing mission operations and no negative impact to project schedules.
  • Prepare and present technical briefings, options analyses, and status updates to the sponsor and internal leadership.
• Cost, Schedule, and Performance Oversight (Technical)
  • Track and synthesize cost, schedule, and technical performance metrics across all Task Orders, especially where system engineering decisions have significant impact.
  • Provide technical input to PMO and program leadership on trade-offs between scope, cost, and schedule, and priorities for modernization and AI insertion based on value and risk.
  • Support remediation plans when metrics indicate risk to completion-based commitments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline; Master’s preferred.
• Top Secret SCI + Polygraph.
• 3+ years of experience in a fast‑paced Agile development environment.
• Experience leading teams with demonstrated ability to plan, organize, and implement significant strategic initiatives.
• Extensive experience in systems engineering and architecture for complex software-development programs, ideally in a multi–Task Order or portfolio environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading modernization, portfolio rationalization, or large-scale technical transformations.
• Hands-on understanding of AI/ML–enabled solutions and integration patterns in production environments.
• Strong background in Agile/SAFe and DevSecOps practices.
• Proven ability to work directly with government sponsors and senior stakeholders, articulating complex technical concepts in business/mission terms.
• Experience with tracking and reporting on cost, schedule, and performance metrics in coordination with PMO/Program Management.

Desired Skills And Experience

• Experience building/creating PowerBI dashboards.

Pay

The likely salary range for this position is $128,039 – $173,229. Salary will be set based on experience, geographic location, and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.