Technical Functional Delivery Manager

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; Gaithersburg (MD); On-site; USD 143,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AI career tools

Internal mobility

401K with company match

Full-flex work week

Award-winning culture

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking a Delivery Manager to lead delivery execution for a major FDA modernization initiative. This role requires a leader who can ensure consistent, high-quality, on-time delivery in a complex Agile environment.

Hybrid position requiring in-office presence 3 days per week at Gaithersburg and FDA Silver Spring campuses; coordinate across multi-team streams to maintain velocity and align with mission needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience.
• Current or recent FDA project leadership experience.
• Active PMI PMP certification.
• Experience in SAFe Agile environments.
• Experience managing multi-stakeholder projects.
• Self-organized with cross-functional, matrixed teams.
• Experience with Agile values, processes, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery execution to ensure on-time, high-quality outcomes.
• Align delivery priorities across workstreams and manage dependencies.
• Collaborate with government stakeholders and end-user communities.
• Provide delivery metrics and proactive risk management.
• Support testing cycles including UAT and release planning.
• Drive transformation to elevate team performance and delivery efficiency.

Skills

FDA project leadership

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Agile methods

Public Trust clearance

SAFe Agile

Education

Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience

PMI PMP certification

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking a Delivery Manager to lead delivery execution for a major FDA modernization initiative. This role is central to the program’s success and requires a leader who can ensure consistent, high‑quality, on‑time delivery in a complex Agile environment. This is a high‑impact leadership role for someone who excels at driving predictable delivery, elevating team performance, and ensuring solutions meet the highest standards of quality, timeliness, and mission value.

Hybrid position requiring 3 days in office at the GDIT Gaithersburg office and FDA Silver Spring campus.

How a Delivery Manager will make an impact:

• Be the primary force ensuring that program teams meet or exceed stakeholder expectations.
• Align delivery priorities across multiple workstreams, maintain strong oversight of internal and external integration teams, and drive the coordination needed to keep the program on schedule and on track.
• Work closely with the Program Manager and leadership team, government stakeholders, and end‑user communities to ensure delivery aligns with mission needs and operational outcomes.
• Ensure teams understand priorities, manage dependencies effectively, and maintain the pace required for a fast‑moving modernization effort.
• Manage resources across multiple teams, ensuring they execute against release priorities and maintain healthy velocity and transparency.
• Oversee O&M and Help Desk operations to ensure seamless continuity of service and consistently high‑quality outcomes.
• Drive teams to meet major project deadlines and release milestones by maintaining a clear delivery roadmap and proactively managing risks and dependencies.
• Learn and understand the mission, business processes, and user needs behind the system to align delivery decisions with operational outcomes and stakeholder priorities.
• Proactively identify and resolve delivery issues to meet performance, quality, and customer satisfaction goals.
• Work with the program team, clients and customers to develop and maintain strategic product roadmaps.
• Manage O&M, minor and major enhancement release scope, schedule, and deliverables across functional and technical teams.
• Support customer‑facing meetings, sprint reviews, demos, and planning sessions to ensure alignment with stakeholder priorities.
• Present delivery metrics including velocity, story progress, impediments, and release milestones.
• Resolve delivery issues proactively to meet performance, quality, and customer satisfaction goals.
• Deliver proactive and transparent communication to maintain strong, trust‑based customer relationships.
• Validate deliverables for completeness and quality, ensuring they meet customer requirements.
• Guide functional analysis, requirements definition, and documentation activities.
• Ensure IT capabilities remain aligned with evolving business needs, goals, and operational realities.
• Support testing cycles including functional testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Coach teams on adopting innovative practices, tooling, and AI‑enabled approaches that improve throughput, reduce manual effort, and accelerate time to value.
• Lead transformation efforts to elevate team performance, introduce modern engineering practices, and continuously improve delivery efficiency.

What you'll need to succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• Current or recent experience leading development projects at the FDA.
• A passion for the mission the project is supporting.
• Active PMI PMP certification.
• Experience working in a SAFe Agile Environment.
• Experience managing projects with multiple key stakeholders.
• Self‑organized with experience managing multi‑system projects and working with cross‑functional project teams in a matrixed environment.
• Experience in managing projects with Agile values, principles, processes, and methods such as iterative and incremental development, burn‑down, continuous integration, and test‑driven.
• Security clearance level: Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Security clearance level

Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

GDIT is your place:

• 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 $142,792 - $178,250. 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: 50-75%

Telecommuting Options: Hybrid Work

Work Location: USA MD Gaithersburg

Additional Work Locations: USA VA Falls Church

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.

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.

Identity Verification Process

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About our work

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