Senior IT Project & Program Delivery Lead

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT); Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking an experienced Senior IT Project Manager in Chantilly, VA to own the integrated delivery plan and drive successful delivery of cloud, identity, EUC/VDI, AI, data, observability, automation, cybersecurity, and network projects for government customers.

You will orchestrate requirements, architectures, and delivery objectives into integrated schedules, manage critical paths, resource loading, and risk mitigation, and report progress to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, Business, or related field, or approved equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible IT project management, technical program delivery, or service-delivery experience including at least 5 years leading multiple concurrent complex enterprise IT projects or workstreams.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, executive-briefing, and Government-customer communication skills.
• Demonstrated delivery experience in IC environments involving multiple technical domains, stakeholder groups, and shared resources.
• Proven ability to build and manage work breakdown structures, integrated schedules, critical paths, dependencies, resource/capacity plans, milestones, baselines, forecasts, and recovery plans.
• Experience with Microsoft Project or an equivalent scheduling tool and with Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Confluence/SharePoint, Excel, Power BI, or comparable delivery and reporting platforms.
• Demonstrated leadership of matrixed teams, vendors, and senior technical contributors; ability to influence without direct authority, negotiate priorities, manage conflict, and hold owners accountable.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent cloud/M365, identity, EUC/VDI, AI, data, application, observability, automation, cybersecurity, network, ServiceNow, and service-improvement projects from approved intake through deployment and operational acceptance.
• Translate approved requirements, architectures, and delivery objectives into integrated work breakdown structures, schedules, milestones, dependencies, owners, resource assumptions, decision points, and measurable completion criteria.
• Build and maintain an integrated master schedule showing critical and near-critical paths, cross-project dependencies, resource loading, external constraints, governance gates, and forecast dates.
• Prioritize and sequence work using mission value, Government commitments, urgency, technical dependencies, risk reduction, resource capacity, security/ATO lead times, maintenance windows, procurement, and operational impact.
• Control work in progress and identify multitasking, context switching, over-allocation, and false parallelism; recommend scope/schedule/resource/priority trade-offs when demand exceeds capacity.
• Resolve shared-SME and shared-environment conflicts across architecture, engineering, Security, Service Operations, test, vendors; document decisions, impacts, owners, and escalation deadlines.
• Maintain disciplined controls across all project elements, with aging, impacts, triggers, ownership, deadlines, mitigation, and escalation.
• Facilitate integrated planning sessions, technical delivery reviews, risk reviews, schedule challenge sessions, production-readiness reviews, cutover coordination, recovery sessions, and after-action reviews.
• Apply predictive, Agile, and hybrid delivery methods appropriately while preserving an honest integrated forecast, architecture/security gates, configuration control, acceptance criteria, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate with Government stakeholders, product and requirements owners, architects, engineers, Security, Service Operations, Program Operations, finance, contracts, vendors, and subcontractors maintaining decision authority.
• Plan for procurement, licensing, environment access, data/model transfer, ATO/RMF activities, vendor dependencies, lab and test capacity, maintenance windows, change approvals, training, communications, and sustainment
• Manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and benefits; detect variance early; develop recovery options; re-baseline through authorized change control; preserve history and rationale of commitments.
• Ensure deployments have validated requirements and acceptance criteria, tested implementation, security and operational approvals, monitoring, rollback, documentation, knowledge transfer, support ownership, and post-deployment verification.

Skills

Information Technology (IT) Projects

Project Management

Requirements Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, Business, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Project

Jira

Azure DevOps

ServiceNow

Confluence/SharePoint

Excel

Power BI

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking an experienced Senior IT Project Manager in Chantilly, VA to own the integrated delivery plan and drive successful delivery of cloud, identity, EUC/VDI, AI, data, observability, automation, cybersecurity, and network projects for government customers.

You will orchestrate requirements, architectures, and delivery objectives into integrated schedules, manage critical paths, resource loading, and risk mitigation, and report progress to