Air Force Technical Program Director

Position

Description:

CGI Federal is seeking a Air Force Technical Program Director to lead business development and profitable growth for a branch sector supporting Air Force and broader DoD missions. Serving as a solutions architect and senior technical leader, this role shapes and delivers modernized capabilities across cloud architecture, data engineering, software development, cybersecurity, and advanced analytics.

The position owns P&L performance, pricing and margin strategy, pipeline development and conversion, and executive client engagement - translating mission needs into winning, technically differentiated solutions. This leader drives end-to-end program management (scope, schedule, risk, quality, and delivery), providing hands-on engineering oversight to ensure solutions align with DoD/DAF enterprise architectures, Zero Trust/RMF security requirements, interoperability standards, and measurable mission outcomes.

This role bridges business development, growth and strategy, engineering, and execution to sustain delivery excellence and year-over-year expansion.

This role supports a hybrid work environment with travel as needed.

This position location is flexible, but the Fairfax office is preferred.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

* Business Development & Strategic Growth

* Develop and manage a robust pipeline, partnering with BD, capture, and portfolio leadership to convert opportunities into awarded work.

* Develop opportunities for on-contract growth.

* Lead technical solutioning for proposals, whitepapers, roadmaps, and capture activities.

* Shape and evolve solution offerings aligned to DAF/DoD modernization priorities (cloud, analytics, Zero Trust, digital engineering, automation).

Program & Delivery Leadership

* Own end to end service delivery performance, ensuring contractual, technical, and mission objectives are met.

* Provide technical leadership across multiple teams (direct, matrixed, and global delivery) influencing architecture, engineering practices, solution quality, and on-contract growth.

* Lead program planning, risk management, quality assurance, and resource allocation.

* Ensure all deliverables meet schedule, quality, compliance, and mission relevance.

* Represent CGI Federal to senior government stakeholders, ensuring transparency, alignment, and trusted advisor engagement.

Technical Direction & Engineering Oversight

* Oversee and validate architecture and integration strategies across complex cloud based data ecosystems.

* Provide hands on technical oversight in data engineering, Dev Sec Ops , API-driven interoperability, cybersecurity, and cloud solutioning.

* Facilitate technical design reviews to ensure scalability, performance, security, and compliance with DoD/DAF standards.

* Troubleshoot enterprise-scale technical issues and guide rapid resolution paths.

* Translate complex technical concepts into clear, mission relevant narratives for non-technical audiences.

Collaboration & Cross-Functional Leadership

* Coordinate across engineering, cybersecurity, data, and program leadership teams to ensure cohesive execution.

* Align delivery with enterprise governance, acquisition frameworks, and mission objectives.

* Drive adoption of best practices in Agile/SAFe, Dev Sec Ops , cloud modernization, cybersecurity, and secure software development.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, data science, or related technical field and 10 years of related experience.

* Minimum 5 years managing complex technical programs across a broad spectrum of requirements in data engineering, IT modernization, agile software development, enterprise architecture, or cybersecurity.

* 7+ years of broad experience in cloud solutioning, enterprise IT, DEVSECOPS, data platforms, and digital transformation.

* Requires a minimum of 3-7 years of Business Development (BD) experience,

demonstrating a proven track record of identifying, qualifying, and capturing new business opportunities.

* Experience overseeing cloud-native data platforms, secure data pipelines, and enterprise data ecosystems.

* Knowledge of automation frameworks, API development, and secure integration patterns.

* Experience with analytics platforms, BI tools, predictive modeling, and ML environments.

* Excellent communication, facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and executive briefing skills.

* Active Secret clearance required with the ability to obtain a TS

Supported Business Development and Growth efforts leading technical solutions and proposals

.Prior U.S. Air Force experience as military or civilian member or as a contractor (highly desired).

. Scrum Master experience or familiarity with Agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe).

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Experience with Python, Spark, SQL, or similar languages used in data and cloud engineering.

. Familiarity with data governance, metadata management, enterprise data catalogs, and DoD data strategies.

. Understanding of IAM/RBAC/ABAC principles and platforms (AWS IAM, Azure AD,…