Program Execution Analyst Principal

The Program Execution Analyst Principal serves as a senior strategist and execution leader supporting the Federal Health account with a primary focus on Veterans Affairs (VA) programs. This role ensures operational excellence across complex, multi-year initiatives by driving performance, strengthening stakeholder relationships, and aligning delivery activities with VA and organizational strategic objectives.

• Lead execution across large-scale VA programs, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, and quality targets are met.
• Develop and maintain detailed program plans, risk registers, and performance dashboards to promote operational discipline.
• Drive issue resolution, action tracking, and dependency management across internal teams and partners.

• Serve as a senior point of contact for VA stakeholders, ensuring alignment with evolving needs and priorities.
• Prepare and deliver program updates, executive briefings, and performance reports for VA and internal leadership.

• Conduct advanced analyses to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Translate complex data into actionable insights that support operational and strategic decision-making.
• Define and manage key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure measurable program outcomes.

• Lead continuous improvement activities to optimize efficiency and reduce program risk.
• Ensure compliance with contract requirements, organizational policies, and federal health regulations.
• Collaborate with finance, contracting, and project teams to support forecasting, resource planning, and budget adherence.

• Coordinate across technical, clinical, operations, and business teams to maintain cohesive program delivery.
• Mentor and support junior analysts and project staff to strengthen execution capabilities across the account.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, public administration, health administration, analytics, or a related field; master’s degree preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in federal program management, program analysis, or operational leadership, preferably supporting VA or federal health agencies.
• Demonstrated experience leading execution across complex, multi-stakeholder programs.
• Strong analytical skills with experience interpreting operational, financial, and performance data.
• Excellent communication skills, including senior-level briefing and stakeholder engagement experience.

The likely salary range for this position is $140,250 - $189,750. 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.

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…