Mission Software Development Lead

The Department of War Mission Software Development Lead is responsible for proposing designing, integrating, and guiding the delivery of mission-critical software systems that operate in classified, contested, and disconnected environments. This role bridges mission needs, operational workflows, and modern software architectures, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and compliant with DoW cybersecurity and accreditation requirements.

As a Solutions Architect Principal, the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of Defense Customers. You will play a crucial role in developing and implementing Mission Software solution across Defense. This role will be a leader in GDIT’s Mission Software Center of Excellence.

• Lead/Manage/Support the technical solutions repartment of equired to address the Mission software needs of Defense customers
• Collaborate with Defense Grow, Business Development, Chief Technology Officer's organization and our customers
• Drive innovative solutions that efficiently solve customer problems.
• Utilize Kubernetes, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learn, AI assisted Dev Sec Ops , Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, Agile

Bring your initiative and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Mission Software Development Lead must have:

• Education:
  
  Minimum Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science, or 4+ years of additional equivalent work experience
• Experience:
  
  8+ years of experience, some of which is working on DoW systems
• Technical skills:
  Experience Architecting large scale software systems, Modular Open Systems Approaches, Full stack software development experience, experience writing DoW proposals/whitepapers, Agile Dev Sec Ops  with automated CI/CD, Some Experience with AI Assisted Dev Sec Ops , Cloud Architecture, and Infrastructure as Code
• Security clearance level:
  Must have Secret clearance to start and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret
• US citizenship required
• Role requirements:
  
  Strong Communications skills both written and verbal, Leadership skills, management, Software architecture across microservices, event-driven systems, and modular monoliths. Mission-focused mindset with strong operational empathy. Ability to communicate complex architectures to technical and non-technical audiences. Comfortable operating with ambiguity and high-consequence environments.
• Preferred requirements: experience working on federal proposals; some understanding of Model Based Systems Engineering would be ideal
• Location:
  
  remote with the ability to travel up to 25% of the time

The likely salary range for this position is $158,950 - $215,050. 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.

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