Senior Manager, Digital Engineering & Solutions

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Secret

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Data Science and Data Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Big Data, Cloud Engineering, Engineering Leadership, Technical Leadership, Technical Strategy

Certifications:

None

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Senior Manager, Digital Engineering & Solutions leads the strategy, delivery, and growth of GDIT’s Digital Engineering capabilities, including Data Engineering & Platforms and Intelligent Applications & Automation. The role builds high‑performing teams, drives technology strategy, and provides technical leadership across capture, delivery, and customer engagement.

Role requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret or higher clearance. US Citizenship required.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Senior Manager, Digital Engineering & Solutions oversees:

Digital Engineering Leadership:

• Lead Digital Engineering practices across data, platforms, automation, and application engineering.
• Oversee engineering teams; define career paths, mentoring, and training/certification strategies.
• Manage workforce planning, hiring, utilization, and ongoing skills development.

Technology Strategy & Architecture:

• Define technology strategy and establish engineering standards and reusable architecture.
• Provide architectural guidance across data platforms, integration, cloud, app dev, automation, and AI‑enabled systems.
• Ensure consistent DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, security, and responsible AI practices.

Growth, Capture & Proposal Leadership

• Serve as technical solution lead for key pursuits and customer engagements.
• Translate customer needs into solution architectures, prototypes, and technical volumes.
• Develop estimates, staffing models, and reusable assets; support RFI/RFP and oral proposals.

Capability Development & Innovation

• Evaluate emerging technologies and set capability investment priorities.
• Build capabilities in AI‑ready data platforms, automation, low‑code, and agentic systems.
• Develop reusable IP such as architectures, accelerators, and playbooks; collaborate with AI, Cloud, Cyber, and Digital Workplace practices.

Delivery & Engineering Excellence

• Establish scalable engineering practices and delivery governance.
• Promote consistency in architecture, DevSecOps, testing, data governance, documentation, and quality controls.
• Provide technical escalation and address systemic delivery risks.

People Leadership

• Develop managers, architects, and technical leaders.
• Foster a culture of excellence, collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.
• Enable teams to work with emerging technologies and encourage cross‑practice teamwork.

Future Scope
This role may expand to additional Digital Engineering capabilities as the organization grows.

REQUIRED TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS
The Senior Manager, Digital Engineering & Solutions must have:

• Education: Bachelor’s in computer science, Engineering, IT, Data/Analytics, or equivalent experience.
• Experience: 5+ years leading technical teams; 10+ years overall experience preferred.
• Knowledge of modern cloud architecture (Azure and/or AWS).
• Experience designing or overseeing enterprise‑scale architectures.
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and develop practical solutions.
• Experience supporting solutions, proposals, or capture activities.
• Experience developing technical talent and engineering teams.
• Leadership in at least two of the following: Data engineering/platforms, Software/application engineering, Cloud engineering, Enterprise integration, or Automation/low‑code
• Ability to communicate with both technical and executive audiences.

REQUIRED LEADERSHIP QUALIFICATIONS

• Architect mindset: understand integration of data, apps, cloud, automation, and AI.
• Engineering leadership: build teams, set standards, ensure scalable delivery.
• Growth orientation: shape solutions and support business development.
• Consultative communication with technical and executive stakeholders.
• Future‑focused capability development aligned to emerging demand.

PREFERRED TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with modern app architecture, GenAI/LLMs, or agentic systems.
• Experience with one or more data platforms: Fabric, Databricks, or Snowflake
• Experience with low‑code/no‑code platforms: MS Power Platform, M365 / SharePoint, UiPath, ServiceNow, or Copilot Studio
• Experience with DevSecOps and modern engineering practices.
• Experience developing proposal volumes, solution architectures, estimates, or staffing models.
• Experience supporting large competitive procurements or federal environments.
• Relevant cloud, data, Microsoft, AWS, or architecture certifications.

LOCATION

• Preferred: Hybrid at GDIT’s regional office in Bossier City, LA or corporate headquarters in Falls Church, VA.
• Alternate: Consideration for remote work will be given if not within range of these facilities.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

● Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
● Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
● Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
● Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
● Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore a career in software development at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation.

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The likely salary range for this position is $134,514 - $172,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 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. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

 

Our Identity Verification Process:

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About Our Work:

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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