Chief Engineer – Architect

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $170k - $230k / year

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General Dynamics Information Technology

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1954

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

General Dynamics Information Technology is a company at the forefront of technological innovation, offering a wide range of services including consulting, digital modernization, and application services. The company is heavily involved in implementing solutions related to artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, high-performance computing, and quantum technologies. GDIT is committed to supporting government and defense sectors, providing mission-critical services such as logistics and supply chain management, intelligence, and homeland security. The company also focuses on diverse and inclusive hiring practices and actively promotes employee well-being. Through its digital accelerator solutions and pioneering use of emerging technologies, GDIT aims to propel agencies' missions forward and address complex technological challenges.

📋 Description

• Lead enterprise architecture and modernization across BEMSD's application portfolio, enabling secure, scalable mission capabilities • Guide technical design decisions and ensure architecture standards remain aligned with CBP and DHS requirements • Oversee development and maintenance of architecture artifacts, including system interfaces, integration patterns, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps • Champion innovation across application development, modernization, and operations to improve mission agility and performance • Provide technical leadership to engineering teams across application, cloud, data, and integration domains • Partner with BEMSD stakeholders and development teams to translate mission needs into secure, compliant solutions • Evaluate and integrate AI, automation, and emerging technologies—including sensor, edge, and field data integration—to enhance mission capabilities • Brief BEMSD and GDIT leadership on architectural strategy, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline • 15+ years leading enterprise architecture for large-scale federal IT programs • Experience leading modernization across complex application portfolios • Expertise in legacy modernization, cloud and hybrid architectures • Experience with Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices • Strong executive communication, stakeholder engagement, and leadership skills • U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a CBP Background Investigation.

🏖️ 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 • 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 • 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 • 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.