Technical Functional Delivery Manager

GD Information Technology • Gaithersburg, WA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking a Delivery Manager to lead delivery execution for a major FDA modernization initiative. This role is central to the program’s success and requires a leader who can ensure consistent, high-quality, on-time delivery in a complex Agile environment. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who excels at driving predictable delivery, elevating team performance, and ensuring solutions meet the highest standards of quality, timeliness, and mission value. This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days in office at the GDIT Gaithersburg office and FDA Silver Spring campus.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• Current or recent experience leading development projects at the FDA.
• A passion for the mission the project is supporting.
• Active PMI PMP certification.
• Experience working in a S AFe Agile Environment.
• Experience managing projects with multiple key stakeholders.
• Self-organized with experience managing multi-system projects and working with cross-functional project teams in a matrixed environment.
• Experience in managing projects with Agile values, principles, processes, and methods such as iterative and incremental development, burn down, continuous integration, and test-driven.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary force ensuring that program teams meet or exceed stakeholder expectations.
• Align delivery priorities across multiple workstreams, maintain strong oversight of internal and external integration teams, and drive the coordination needed to keep the program on schedule and on track.
• Work closely with the Program Manager and leadership team, government stakeholders, and end-user communities to ensure delivery aligns with mission needs and operational outcomes.
• Ensure teams understand priorities, manage dependencies effectively, and maintain the pace for a fast-moving modernization effort.
• Manage resources across multiple teams, ensuring they execute against release priorities and maintain healthy velocity and transparency.
• Oversee O&M and Help Desk operations to ensure seamless continuity of service and consistently high-quality outcomes.
• Drive teams to meet major project deadlines and release milestones by maintaining a clear delivery roadmap and proactively managing risks and dependencies.
• Learn and understand the mission, business processes, and user needs behind the system to align delivery decisions with operational outcomes and stakeholder priorities.
• Proactively identify and resolve delivery issues to meet performance, quality, and customer satisfaction goals.
• Work with the program team, clients and customers to develop and maintain strategic product roadmaps.
• Manage O&M, minor and major enhancement release scope, schedule, and deliverables across functional and technical teams.
• Support customer facing meetings, sprint reviews, demos, and planning sessions to ensure alignment with stakeholder priorities.
• Present delivery metrics including velocity, story progress, impediments, and release milestones.
• Resolve delivery issues proactively to meet performance, quality, and customer satisfaction goals.
• Deliver proactive and transparent communication to maintain strong, trust-based customer relationships.
• Validate deliverables for completeness and quality, ensuring they meet customer requirements.
• Guide functional analysis, requirements definition, and documentation activities.
• Ensure IT capabilities remain aligned with evolving business needs, goals, and operational realities.
• Support testing cycles including functional testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Coach teams on adopting innovative practices, tooling, and AI enabled approaches that improve throughput, reduce manual effort, and accelerate time to value.
• Lead transformation efforts to elevate team performance, introduce modern engineering practices, and continuously improve delivery efficiency.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
• 401K with company match
• Competitive pay
• Paid time off
• Full flex work weeks
• 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

What This Job Offers

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