Platform Engineer Sr Principal

General Dynamics Information Technology•Albany, NY

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Platform Engineer Sr Principal and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As a Platform Engineer Sr. Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the New York State Department of Health Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) program. You will play a crucial role as a deputy to the program Chief Technology Officer, leading technology strategy and enterprise architecture for eMedNY at Corporate Woods in Albany, NY. As the Platform Engineer Sr. Principal supporting eMedNY technology strategy and enterprise architecture, you will be trusted to set and defend the technical direction of one of the nation’s largest Medicaid claims processing environments — an estate spanning a mature IBM z/OS core running COBOL, CICS, DB2, and high-volume batch alongside AWS cloud-native services, with equal credibility expected on both. You will provide technical direction to the program’s leads under extremely stringent response-time and continuous-availability service level agreements and HIPAA/HITECH and FedRAMP compliance obligations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field; an advanced degree (MS in Information Technology or MBA) strongly preferred
10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise or solution architecture and technology leadership, serving as a senior technical authority on large, complex programs
5+ years as the accountable technical lead on programs of comparable scale, owning outcomes delivered through engineers you did not manage
IBM z/OS mainframe environments: COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, and high-volume batch scheduling, tuning, and recovery
AWS cloud-native architecture, containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD at enterprise scale
Enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF / Catalyst
HIPAA/HITECH, NIST SP 800-53 / FISMA, and FedRAMP
Healthcare data and transaction standards: X12 EDI, HL7 FHIR, NCPDP, and claims adjudication workflows
Data platform architecture spanning transactional and analytic stores, integration, and reporting
Credibility on both sides of the estate — able to sit in a design review on a COBOL batch change in the morning and a cloud platform decision in the afternoon, and be taken seriously in both rooms
Ability to serve as the senior technical authority: hold a decision, carry a position under pressure without escalating it, and commit the program in front of the client
Direct client-facing experience with government or state agency leadership, including formal written positions that withstand procurement, legal, and audit scrutiny
Sound architectural judgment and the willingness to name compliance gaps, vendor lock-in, and unsupported claims rather than defer to convenience
Experience supporting large-scale healthcare, Medicaid/MMIS, or government programs with stringent availability, security, and privacy service level agreements
Excellent executive communication and technical writing, and a track record managing vendors, budgets, and multi-million-dollar scope

Nice To Haves

Professional certifications preferred: CISM, TOGAF, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Hands-on background earlier in career as a developer or systems programmer
Experience with CMS regulatory programs and State Medicaid agency governance

Responsibilities

Set and defend the technical direction for the eMedNY enterprise architecture portfolio across both the mainframe core and the cloud-native platform as one coherent architecture, not two disconnected ones
Maintain working command of the current-state environment — z/OS, COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, and the nightly batch cycle — sufficient to arbitrate design decisions and challenge estimates
Represent the program’s technical position to New York State Department of Health leadership through briefings, formal written responses, and procurement and regulatory questions
Set technical direction for and mentor the program’s technical leads, including the security architecture and governance and technical architecture and operations functions
Own architecture governance: chair architecture, change, and delivery-assurance review boards, and maintain standards, reference architectures, and design patterns spanning both platforms
Assess new and changing CMS and New York State regulatory requirements — interoperability, prior authorization, claims attachments, and reporting mandates — for architectural impact, and shape the technical roadmap and delivery plans that meet them
Direct compliance posture against HIPAA/HITECH, NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, and FedRAMP Moderate, owning risk registers, corrective action plans, and audit and assessment response
Oversee technology evaluation and vendor and licensing decisions, including mainframe software licensing and sustainment cost, naming lock-in and supply-chain risk explicitly
Provide executive-level status reporting, technical documentation, roadmap development, and risk analysis to program, corporate, and client leadership

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
401K with company match
Competitive pay and paid time off
Full-flex work week
Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
Dental plan options
Vision plan
Ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars to 401K up to the IRS annual limits
Company match for 401K contributions
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