Senior Director, Information Systems – Health and Research
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Information Systems Sr Director leading enterprise infrastructure supporting citizen services and research missions. Strategic leadership, team collaboration, and best practices in technology adoption and operational excellence.
Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic leadership for infrastructure, managed services, and digital platform capabilities supporting custom scientific and business applications.
- Partner with product owners, engineering teams, and customer programs to identify new service opportunities and translate mission needs into actionable technology solutions.
- Lead, mentor, and develop technical teams; set performance expectations, guide career growth, and cultivate a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Drive the implementation of automation, infrastructure‑as‑code, and modern software delivery approaches to improve scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Communicate complex technical concepts through clear visualizations, briefs, and presentations for both technical and executive audiences.
- Oversee cross‑functional collaboration across engineering, security, architecture, and operations to deliver integrated and resilient solutions.
- Contribute to proposal development and technical solutioning to support new business opportunities and expand customer mission impact.
- Provide thought leadership on infrastructure technologies, digital modernization, and emerging industry trends that influence long‑term strategy.
Requirements:
- BA/BS degree (or additional 4 years experience) and 15+ years of progressive technical experience.
- Minimum of 5 years leading technical teams with demonstrated success in coaching, performance management, and talent development.
- Experience managing and motivating technical professionals across multiple disciplines and organizational boundaries.
- Strong background supporting health and research agencies within Health and Human Services (HHS).
- Experience evaluating system components, diagnosing integration challenges, and identifying technology gaps related to infrastructure and enterprise platforms.
- Hands‑on expertise with automation, configuration management, monitoring, and operational tooling for large-scale systems.
- Technical knowledge of HPC, virtualization, container orchestration, workload schedulers, or large distributed systems.
- Experience shaping proposal strategy and designing technical approaches that enable customer mission success and drive new business wins.
- Familiarity with modern programming or scripting languages such as Python, PHP, Ruby, or Perl.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to convey complex ideas to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
Benefits:
- 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.
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