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Senior Program Manager | Active TS/SCI clearance

$161.5k - $218.5k
Full-time

Gdit

Responsibilities for this Position

Location: Any Location / Remote
Full Part/Time: Full time
Job Req: RQ222021

Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret

Public Trust/Other Required:
None

Job Family:
Program Delivery and Execution

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Cyber Operations, DoD Program Management, Enterprise Operations, Federal Acquisition Process, Program Leadership
Certifications:
None
Experience:
10 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes

Job Description:

Oversee complex programs that drive impactful mission outcomes for our customers as a Senior Program Manager . Here, you'll see the bigger picture on mission initiatives and where your program management career can go at GDIT.

Our Senior Program Manager is a strategic leader responsible for driving performance across a broad portfolio of federal programs. This role partners closely with senior program leadership to elevate delivery excellence, deepen customer trust, optimize cross-program operations, and enable both organic and new business growth across a diverse mission environment.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
  • Align program execution with strategic objectives of the business area and sector, ensuring consistent performance and operational cohesion across projects.
  • Lead and support capture and proposal activities, including shaping requirements, informing solution development, and contributing to competitive win strategies for both recompetes and new opportunities.
  • Drive on-contract growth by identifying program expansion areas, enhancing delivery efficiency, and strengthening customer satisfaction across the portfolio.
  • Serve as a senior advisor to leadership on program performance, governance, integration, operations, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring informed decision-making and enterprise visibility.
  • Represent the organization in high-visibility forums, prepare and deliver executive-level briefings, and contribute to enterprise communication strategies and messaging.
  • Advance cybersecurity, IT, and operational readiness efforts drawing on deep experience in cyber operations, C4I, enterprise networks, and secure IT modernization.
  • Ensure excellence in cost, schedule, quality, compliance, and risk management across the portfolio, applying disciplined program management practices.
  • Improve cross-program collaboration by streamlining communication channels, harmonizing processes, and enabling cohesive reporting and operational practices.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your program management expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. Our Senior Program Manager must have:
  • Security Clearance Level: Active Top Secret clearance.
  • Required Experience:
    10+ years of program or project management experience, successfully leading large-scale federal IT or cybersecurity programs.
  • Proven leadership of multimillion dollar contracts, enterprise operations, cyber missions, or modernization initiatives.
  • Strong executive communication capabilities and experience advising senior government and enterprise stakeholders.
  • Background in cyber operations, C4I, enterprise network operations, RMF, or modernization domains.
  • Experience in federal acquisition processes, proposal development, and capture strategy.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary, geographically dispersed, and multi-vendor teams.
  • Required Certifications: PMP (completed or in progress) and ITIL certifications.
  • Education: Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity, Information Warfare Systems, Engineering or a related technical field.
  • US Citizenship Required

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Active TS/SCI clearance
  • Master's Degree in cybersecurity, information warfare systems, engineering, or a related technical field.
  • CISSP, CEH, or other advanced cybersecurity credentials and ITIL certifications, PMP Certifications:

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
  • Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
  • Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
  • Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
  • Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
  • Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore a career in program management at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your passion for the mission and delivering results.

The likely salary range for this position is $161,500 - $218,500. 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.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
None

Telecommuting Options:
Remote

Work Location:
Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
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 employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as 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. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at
gdit.com/tc .

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans



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Oversee complex programs that drive impactful mission outcomes for our customers as a Senior Program Manager . Here, you'll see the bigger picture on mission initiatives and where your program management career can go at GDIT.


Our Senior Program Manager is a strategic leader responsible for driving performance across a broad portfolio of federal programs. This role partners closely with senior program leadership to elevate delivery excellence, deepen customer trust, optimize cross-program operations, and enable both organic and new business growth across a diverse mission environment.



MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

  • Align program execution with strategic objectives of the business area and sector, ensuring consistent performance and operational cohesion across projects.
  • Lead and support capture and proposal activities, including shaping requirements, informing solution development, and contributing to competitive win strategies for both recompetes and new opportunities.
  • Drive on-contract growth by identifying program expansion areas, enhancing delivery efficiency, and strengthening customer satisfaction across the portfolio.
  • Serve as a senior advisor to leadership on program performance, governance, integration, operations, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring informed decision-making and enterprise visibility.
  • Represent the organization in high-visibility forums, prepare and deliver executive-level briefings, and contribute to enterprise communication strategies and messaging.
  • Advance cybersecurity, IT, and operational readiness efforts drawing on deep experience in cyber operations, C4I, enterprise networks, and secure IT modernization.
  • Ensure excellence in cost, schedule, quality, compliance, and risk management across the portfolio, applying disciplined program management practices.
  • Improve cross-program collaboration by streamlining communication channels, harmonizing processes, and enabling cohesive reporting and operational practices.




WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your program management expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. Our Senior Program Manager must have:

  • Security Clearance Level: Active Top Secret clearance.
  • Required Experience:
    10+ years of program or project management experience, successfully leading large-scale federal IT or cybersecurity programs.
  • Proven leadership of multimillion dollar contracts, enterprise operations, cyber missions, or modernization initiatives.
  • Strong executive communication capabilities and experience advising senior government and enterprise stakeholders.
  • Background in cyber operations, C4I, enterprise network operations, RMF, or modernization domains.
  • Experience in federal acquisition processes, proposal development, and capture strategy.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary, geographically dispersed, and multi-vendor teams.
  • Required Certifications: PMP (completed or in progress) and ITIL certifications.
  • Education: Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity, Information Warfare Systems, Engineering or a related technical field.
  • US Citizenship Required




Preferred Qualifications:

  • Active TS/SCI clearance
  • Master's Degree in cybersecurity, information warfare systems, engineering, or a related technical field.
  • CISSP, CEH, or other advanced cybersecurity credentials and ITIL certifications, PMP Certifications:




GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

  • Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
  • Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
  • Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
  • Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
  • Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace




OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore a career in program management at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your passion for the mission and delivering results.


The likely salary range for this position is $161,500 - $218,500. 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.



Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40



Travel Required:
None



Telecommuting Options:
Remote



Work Location:
Any Location / Remote



Additional Work Locations:



Total Rewards at GDIT:
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 employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as 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. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.


We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.


Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at

gdit.com/tc .


Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans







PI285157856

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