GDI, Consulting Technical Director

Archer; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 126,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Archer, in partnership with Oracle, seeks an experienced Consulting Technical Director to lead enterprise mission systems, cloud modernization, and Oracle implementations in Northern Virginia. You will coordinate delivery, manage scope and schedule, and ensure security, quality, and contractual commitments are met.

You’ll work with architects, engineers, and executives to translate objectives into actionable plans.

Qualifications

• We require a highly experienced Technical Project Director with enterprise-scale delivery background.
• Must be able to obtain TS/SCI with polygraph clearance.
• Proven track record leading cross-functional IT initiatives through planning to operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and delivery of enterprise mission systems and cloud modernization efforts.
• Coordinate technical execution, manage delivery commitments, and ensure security and compliance.
• Serve as primary delivery interface among customer leadership, Oracle teams, and partners.
• Translate objectives into executable plans and drive milestones to completion.
• Communicate risks and decisions via executive briefings and status meetings.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

SAFe Agile

Jira & Confluence

Executive briefings

Delivery planning

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Archer is collaborating with Oracle to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

About The Team

At Oracle, we empower government organizations to unlock innovation, drive efficiency, and deliver breakthrough outcomes with the power of cloud technology. As a global leader in cloud solutions and professional services, we help clients harness Oracle technology to achieve strategic objectives. We are seeking an experienced Consulting Technical Director to support our IC programs in Northern Virginia.

Description

We are seeking a highly experienced and motivated Technical Project Director to join our team. The ideal candidate will lead the planning and delivery of enterprise mission systems, cloud modernization efforts, and Oracle technology implementations. You will be accountable for coordinating technical execution, managing delivery commitments, and ensuring solutions meet customer mission needs and applicable security, quality, and contractual requirements. You will serve as a primary delivery interface among customer leadership, Oracle teams, and delivery partners. Working with architects, engineers, security specialists, and operations teams, you will translate program objectives into executable plans, resolve dependencies, and guide initiatives from discovery and planning through implementation, stabilization, and transition to operations. Success in this role requires technical judgment, disciplined project execution, and the ability to communicate clearly with both engineering teams and senior mission stakeholders.

The ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI eligibility with polygraph required.

If you thrive in a fast-paced, data-driven organization and enjoy solving complex data engineering challenges, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• The ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI eligibility with polygraph required.
• At least 15 years of relevant experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure and mission systems.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross‑functional IT initiatives from initiation through implementation and transition to operations.
• Experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.
• Strong technical fluency across enterprise architecture, infrastructure, security, software delivery, and operations, with the ability to evaluate delivery impacts and explain technical tradeoffs to nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experience developing integrated project plans, coordinating multiple delivery teams, and driving milestones and deliverables to completion.
• Experience operating in a SAFe Agile environment, including PI Planning, backlog and dependency management, release planning, and coordination across teams.
• Proficiency with Jira and Confluence to manage delivery plans, track work and dependencies, maintain documentation, and report meaningful delivery metrics.
• Experience leading customer status meetings and executive briefings, including communicating risks, recovery plans, and decisions requiring leadership action.
• Experience directing implementation readiness, migration, testing, cutover, stabilization, and transition to operations.
• Experience managing delivery against contractual commitments and applicable security, compliance, governance, and documentation requirements.
• Strong facilitation, negotiation, organization, and problem‑solving skills, including the ability to resolve competing priorities and establish accountability across teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop delivery plans and executive presentations and review architecture diagrams and technical designs with engineering leads.

Desired Skills

• Experience supporting IC or other federal mission systems.
• Experience delivering solutions in government or classified cloud environments.
• Working knowledge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Database, and enterprise cloud migration and modernization practices.
• Experience leading enterprise software development, cloud migration, digital transformation, or large‑scale implementation programs.
• Current project management or Agile certification, such as PMP, PMI‑ACP, CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist, or a comparable credential.
• Familiarity with delivery considerations for AI‑enabled solutions, including AI/ML, agentic systems, large language models, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations.
• Experience with organizational change management, adoption planning, training coordination, and executive‑level program or portfolio reporting.
• Experience managing third‑party vendors, subcontractors, or distributed delivery teams.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $126,200 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.