Senior Manager, Digital Engineering & Solutions

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.

The Senior Manager, Digital Engineering & Solutions oversees:

• 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.

• 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 Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD, observability, security, and responsible AI practices.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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.

• 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.

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