CIT Business Applications Services FOIA Technical Lead
About The Position
GDIT is seeking a Technical Lead to support the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Center for Information Technology (CIT) for the Business Applications Services (BAS) Program, specifically the NIH Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) systems portfolio. FOIA systems include FOIAXpress and SecureRelease, which support request intake, document review, redaction, workflow routing, analytics, and final response processing for NIH FOIA requests. The Technical Lead provides architectural direction, oversees technical work products, supports enhancement cycles, and leads development and integration activities across FOIA environments. The Technical Lead is responsible for designing and developing new code where applicable, supporting maintenance tasks, performing architectural reviews, and guiding the contractor team through all technical activities across requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment. The role requires leadership across workflow automation, document-management systems, analytics support, and familiarity with NIH security and privacy requirements. The Technical Lead collaborates across CIT, BAS, and FOIA program stakeholders to sustain compliant and efficient FOIA operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent)
- Minimum 10 years of experience in technical leadership of a team
- Minimum 8 years of experience in system integration, development, or package implementations
- Minimum 3 years of experience supporting IT projects of similar size and complexity with similar technologies
- Experience with cloud computing and cloud-based technologies
- Solid understanding of Requirements, Design, Implementation, Testing, and the Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC)
- Ability to work with key owners and stakeholders to document requirements
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Ability to obtain and maintain NIH Public Trust
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting FOIAXpress, SecureRelease, case management systems, or document‑review workflows
- Experience supporting NIH or CIT programs
- Experience leading integrations with document processing and analytics systems
- Experience supporting environments with privacy and sensitive data requirements
- Active NIH badge is a plus
Responsibilities
- Work with FOIA program leadership, system owners, and technical teams to design, implement, test, and validate FOIA system capabilities
- Provide technical direction to developers, database engineers, testers, analysts, and customer support specialists
- Design and support system integrations across FOIAXpress, SecureRelease, NIH data services, and document‑processing workflows
- Develop conceptual and technical designs using OOA and OOD techniques
- Review and sign off on requirements, design, development, and testing outputs for release cycles
- Oversee implementation and deployment activities across FOIA workflow systems, case management tools, analytics modules, and redaction environments
- Ensure high-quality technical deliveries and submit incident reports or lessons learned as requested
- Model FOIA business processes and integrate FOIA systems with NIH enterprise capabilities and compliance frameworks
- Assess technical tasks and provide level-of-effort estimates for defects, change requests, and enhancements
- Support release planning, scheduling, and assignment of technical tasks
- Advise on modernization opportunities, automation options, analytics enhancements, and integrations that streamline FOIA processing
- Mentoring junior staff across development and support roles
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay
- Paid time off
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
