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DEF CTO Cyber Capability Lead

GDIT Falls Church, VA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$187,179 - $241,500 per year

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Description

As a Cyber Capability Practice Lead & Director in the Defense CTO organization, you are a triple-threat leader who can sell, do, and manage. You lead a defined practice within our larger Cyber portfolio,spanning Zero Trust, Full-Spectrum Cyber (offensive/defensive), OT/ICS, and platform & weapons cyber,and connect strategy to execution to deliver secure, mission-aligned modernization outcomes across Defense.

You report to the Solutions Sr. Director and lead a high-performing remote team, curating market-ready offerings and talent that accelerate Growth (pursuit, solutioning) and Delivery (execution) from enterprise to edge. You also co-lead IRAD workstreams to shape, prove, and transition leading and bleeding-edge technologies,both from partners and from novel approaches we develop,into differentiated customer outcomes, with measurable transition-to-program (T2P) results.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead a defined Cyber practice: Own and evolve offensive, defensive, OT/ICS, and platform & weapons cyber offerings, ensuring clear value, reusable assets, and delivery playbooks.
  • Be a triple-threat , Partner with Growth to shape pursuits and lead solutioning. Develop compliant, compelling architectures and manage a high-performing team with clear operating cadence and outcomes.
  • Curate offerings and talent: Build and govern the practice portfolio. Develop talent pipelines, role profiles, and upskilling paths. Align architects and delivery leads to priority pursuits and programs.
  • Drive end-to-end Defense solutioning: Translate mission requirements into architectures aligned with Zero Trust and RMF. Deliver strong proposals and orals content with technical depth and executive presence.
  • Accelerate Growth and Delivery: Shape opportunities, integrate capabilities, and open new business while shortening time-to-value across enterprise IT, weapons/platforms, and OT environments.
  • Co-lead IRAD strategy and execution: Set priorities, run experiments, integrate partner and emerging tech, and measure T2P outcomes. Operationalize wins across the portfolio.
  • Stand up communities of practice: Create patterns, playbooks, and reusable assets for modernizing enterprise and edge environments. Codify best practices and broadcast wins.
  • Elevate delivery excellence: Align methods to customer needs, enforce outcome metrics, and coach teams to perform in dynamic selling and delivery environments.
  • Lead across a matrix: Drive clear decisions with executive presence, collaborating across CTO, Growth, and Delivery organizations.

Requirements:

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or Business-related field or equivalent experience
  • Required Experience: 12+ years of progressive technical and team leadership experience with cyber, Zero Trust, infrastructure, and edge computing technologies in both selling (capture/solutioning) and delivery contexts; demonstrated leadership of a practice within a larger portfolio of offerings; background spanning Full-Spectrum Cyber, Defensive, and DoW mission with application across Enterprise IT, weapons/platforms, and OT/ICS environments.
  • Security clearance Level: SECRET required to start with ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI
  • Required Skills and Abilities: Strong communication, analytical, time management, and organizational discipline to drive highly technical teams in a rapidly evolving business environment; deep cyber technical skills and the ability to articulate and apply Zero Trust/RMF in proposal, orals, and delivery settings.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
  • 401K with company match
  • Competitive pay and paid time off
  • Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
  • Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Experience working with Government Customers, specifically the U.S. Military and DoW mission contexts (including constrained/SAP environments)

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