# Principal Systems Engineer - TS/SCI with Polygraph

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Chantilly, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $128,039 - $173,229
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Are you ready to be part of an elite team at GDIT, working on a large-scale, pioneering National Intelligence program? This is an incredible opportunity to immerse yourself in an environment that fuses innovation, speed, and security to safeguard our Nation.

At GDIT, you'll thrive in a dynamic and collaborative setting, where your technical skills will be both challenged and expanded. This program offers the chance to engage with cutting-edge technologies and contemporary development practices in support of a vital mission. You'll play a critical role in addressing some of the most intricate security and operational challenges facing Intelligence and Homeland Security today.

**What You'll Achieve**

The Lead Systems Engineer serves as the strategic technical leader for change and innovation across a six–Task Order software-development IDIQ portfolio. Operating within the PMO, this role is responsible for rationalizing the portfolio, guiding AI insertion, driving continuous improvement, leading transitions of legacy work to new platforms, and ensuring cost, schedule, and performance objectives are met across completion-based task orders.

**Portfolio Strategy & Rationalization**

- Assess existing projects, systems, and capabilities across all six Task Orders to identify redundancies and overlaps, gaps relative to customer mission, priorities, and emerging needs.

- Recommend consolidation, decommissioning, or modernization paths to optimize the portfolio.

- Align technical investments with program and sponsor mission objectives, future-state architecture, and roadmap.

**AI Insertion & Technology Modernization**

- Evaluate where AI and advanced automation can add measurable value.

- Define AI insertion strategies and implementation roadmaps.

- Provide technical guidance to Task Order teams to ensure AI capabilities are responsibly designed and implemented.

- Ensure new AI-enabled solutions integrate effectively with the existing technical ecosystem.

**Continuous Improvement & Innovation Framework**

- Establish and maintain frameworks, metrics, and best practices that promote increased delivery efficiency and quality.

- Facilitate cross-team collaboration to share lessons learned, reusable components, and improvement ideas.

- Drive adoption of modern engineering practices.

**Culture of Optimization and Customer Outcomes**

- Champion a culture that continually seeks to optimize technical performance and delivery processes.

- Partner with PMO leadership and Task Order Leads to ensure engineering decisions are tied to measurable business and mission impacts.

**Legacy SOW Transition to New Target Platform**

- Lead the technical transition of legacy Statements of Work (SOWs) to the “new” environment.

- Define the end-to-end transition approach.

**Sponsor Collaboration & Transparent Transition Management**

- Collaborate closely with the sponsor and key stakeholders to provide transparent visibility into transition plans, progress, and risks.

- Ensure transitions are executed with minimal disruption to ongoing mission operations.

**Cost, Schedule, and Performance Oversight (Technical)**

- Track and synthesize cost, schedule, and technical performance metrics across all Task Orders.

- Provide technical input to PMO and program leadership on trade-offs between scope, cost, and schedule.

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline; Master’s preferred.

- TS/SCI with Polygraph.

- 8+ years related experience.

- 3+ years of experience in a fast-paced Agile development environment.

- Experience leading teams with demonstrated ability to plan, organize, and implement significant strategic initiatives.

- Extensive experience in systems engineering and architecture for complex software-development programs.

- Demonstrated experience leading modernization, portfolio rationalization, or large-scale technical transformations.

- Hands-on understanding of AI/ML–enabled solutions and integration patterns in production environments.

- Strong background in Agile/SAFe and DevSecOps practices.

- Proven ability to work directly with government sponsors and senior stakeholders.

**Desired Skills and Experience**

- Experience building / creating PowerBI dashboards.

The likely salary range for this position is $128,039 - $173,229.

## Skills

### Required
- Agile Methodology
- Artificial Intelligence Technologies
- DevSecOps
- AI/ML–enabled solutions
- Agile/SAFe
- DevSecOps practices
- PowerBI

### Nice to have
- Experience building / creating PowerBI dashboards

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