GDI, Consulting Technical Director

Oracle • Reston, VA

13d • $126,200 - $264,100

About The Position

Oracle is seeking a highly experienced Technical Project Director to lead planning and delivery of enterprise mission systems, cloud modernization efforts, and Oracle technology implementations. The role is accountable for coordinating technical execution, managing delivery commitments, and ensuring solutions meet customer mission needs and applicable security, quality, and contractual requirements. It serves as a primary delivery interface among customer leadership, Oracle teams, and delivery partners. In collaboration with architects, engineers, security specialists, and operations teams, the director translates program objectives into executable plans, resolves dependencies, and guides initiatives from discovery and planning through implementation, stabilization, and transition to operations. Success requires technical judgment, disciplined project execution, and clear communication with engineering teams and senior mission stakeholders. The ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI eligibility with polygraph is required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI eligibility with polygraph.
• At least 15 years of relevant experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure and mission systems.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional IT initiatives from initiation through implementation and transition to operations.
• Experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.
• Strong technical fluency across enterprise architecture, infrastructure, security, software delivery, and operations, including the ability to evaluate delivery impacts and explain technical tradeoffs to nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experience developing integrated project plans, coordinating multiple delivery teams, and driving milestones and deliverables to completion.
• Experience operating in a SAFe Agile environment, including PI Planning, backlog and dependency management, release planning, and coordination across teams.
• Proficiency with Jira and Confluence to manage delivery plans, track work and dependencies, maintain documentation, and report meaningful delivery metrics.
• Experience leading customer status meetings and executive briefings, including communicating risks, recovery plans, and decisions requiring leadership action.
• Experience directing implementation readiness, migration, testing, cutover, stabilization, and transition to operations.
• Experience managing delivery against contractual commitments and applicable security, compliance, governance, and documentation requirements.
• Strong facilitation, negotiation, organization, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to resolve competing priorities and establish accountability across teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop delivery plans and executive presentations and review architecture diagrams and technical designs with engineering leads.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting IC or other federal mission systems.
• Experience delivering solutions in government or classified cloud environments.
• Working knowledge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Database, and enterprise cloud migration and modernization practices.
• Experience leading enterprise software development, cloud migration, digital transformation, or large-scale implementation programs.
• Current project management or Agile certification, such as PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist, or a comparable credential.
• Familiarity with delivery considerations for AI-enabled solutions, including AI/ML, agentic systems, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations.
• Experience with organizational change management, adoption planning, training coordination, and executive-level program or portfolio reporting.
• Experience managing third-party vendors, subcontractors, or distributed delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and delivery of enterprise mission systems, cloud modernization efforts, and Oracle technology implementations.
• Coordinate technical execution, manage delivery commitments, and ensure solutions meet customer mission needs and applicable security, quality, and contractual requirements.
• Serve as the primary delivery interface among customer leadership, Oracle teams, and delivery partners.
• Translate program objectives into executable plans, resolve dependencies, and guide initiatives from discovery and planning through implementation, stabilization, and transition to operations.
• Lead complex, cross-functional IT initiatives from initiation through implementation and transition to operations.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.
• Develop integrated project plans, coordinate multiple delivery teams, and drive milestones and deliverables to completion.
• Coordinate SAFe Agile activities, including PI Planning, backlog and dependency management, release planning, and cross-team coordination.
• Use Jira and Confluence to manage delivery plans, track work and dependencies, maintain documentation, and report delivery metrics.
• Lead customer status meetings and executive briefings, communicating risks, recovery plans, and decisions requiring leadership action.
• Direct implementation readiness, migration, testing, cutover, stabilization, and transition to operations.
• Manage delivery against contractual commitments and applicable security, compliance, governance, and documentation requirements.
• Facilitate coordination, resolve competing priorities, establish accountability across teams, and communicate delivery plans and technical considerations to engineering leads and nontechnical stakeholders.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance.
• Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
• Flexible or accrued paid vacation, depending on employee eligibility and position; accrual details are provided in the posting.
• 11 paid holidays.
• 72 hours of paid sick leave upon hire, refreshing each calendar year and carrying over up to a 112-hour maximum cap.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal benefits.
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
• Potential eligibility for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
• Volunteer programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director