Information Systems Manager - TS/SCI with Polygraph

General Dynamics Information Technology • Chantilly, VA

2d • $128,039 - $173,229 • Onsite

About The Position

Are you ready to be a part of an elite team at GDIT, working on a large-scale, pioneering National Intelligence program? This is an incredible opportunity to immerse yourself into an environment that fuses innovation, speed, and security to safeguard our Nation. At GDIT, you'll thrive in a dynamic and collaborative setting, where your technical skills will be both challenged and expanded. This program offers the chance to engage with cutting-edge technologies and contemporary development practices in support of a vital mission. You'll play a critical role in addressing some of the most intricate security and operational challenges facing Intelligence and Homeland Security today. Come join us and contribute to a mission that truly matters, while advancing your career alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline; Master’s preferred.
• TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.
• 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.
• US Citizenship Required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building / creating PowerBI dashboards

Responsibilities

• Serve as the strategic technical leader for change and innovation across a six–Task Order software-development IDIQ portfolio.
• Rationalize the portfolio, guiding AI insertion, driving continuous improvement, leading transitions of legacy work to new platforms, and ensuring cost, schedule, and performance objectives are met across completion-based task orders.
• 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.
• 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 and implemented, 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).
• 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 maintain all technical CDRLs.
• 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.
• Lead the technical transition of legacy Statements of Work (SOWs) 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
• Dental plan options
• Vision plan
• 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
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time
• Holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Military leave
• Bereavement leave
• Jury duty leave
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life insurance
• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Personal accident insurance
• Critical illness insurance
• Business travel and accident insurance

What This Job Offers

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