Job Description

Type of Requisition: Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Public Trust/Other Required: None
Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations
Job Qualifications:
Skills: Building Architecture, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Source Code Management
Certifications: None
Experience: 10 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required: No
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SYSTEMS ARCHITECT SR PRINCIPAL
Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as Software Architect and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.
At GDIT, people are our differentiator. You will join our team in partnership with New York State of Health (NYSoH) to provide comprehensive health coverage to more than 7.0 million New Yorkers through its Health Benefit Exchange (HBE).
As a Software Architect, you will be responsible for designing and evolving the core systems that enable efficient, reliable, and secure software delivery across our portfolio of products. You will help define the architecture for internal build systems and delivery pipelines, ensuring that development teams have the tools and infrastructure needed to deliver high-quality software at scale. Your work will focus on optimizing performance, accelerating delivery cycles, and enabling seamless collaboration across teams.
The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in resilient software architectures, CI/CD practices, and cloud infrastructure, paired with strong communication skills to influence and align teams. You will act as a thought leader, guiding technical decisions, setting standards, and mentoring engineers to ensure consistent, sustainable delivery. Ultimately, your impact will be measured by the organization's ability to deliver products faster, more reliably, and more efficiently, driving both satisfaction and business growth
HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• You will design resilient and cost-effective systems that balance innovation with operational excellence.
• You will collaborate with functional teams and stakeholders to create architectures that reduce complexity, minimize downtime, and improve scalability. A strong focus on automation, observability, and best practices will be critical to ensure our systems remain robust and efficient while adapting to evolving business needs.
• You will architect and lead the evolution of our delivery, with an emphasis on scalability, high availability, and developer productivity. You will provide technical leadership across the org on best practices in efficient, effective and reliable delivery workflows, source control strategy, repository management and release automation
• You will drive the adoption and integration of Source Code Management systems, Artifact Repositories, Build Systems and Delivery Pipelines (CI/CD)
• You will champion observability and monitoring practices that enable proactive detection, rapid response, and continuous improvement
• You will design and implement fault-tolerant systems that minimize operational overhead and support rapid recovery from failures
• You will collaborate with security and compliance teams to embed DevSecOps principles into the entire software lifecycle
• You will Influence platform and tooling decisions focusing on reducing toil and delivery efficiency
• You will mentor across teams, providing thought leadership in automation and platform reliability
• You will demonstrate flexibility in mindset to navigate and resolve points of intersection with other system components. Adaptability is key to finding mutually beneficial solutions.
• You will utilize strong communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts, fostering collaboration and understanding across interdisciplinary teams

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related technical field, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Experience:

• 12+ years of experience in related technologies
• Proven experience in building and managing highly available, fault-tolerant systems at scale
• Expert hands-on expertise in:

• Source Code Management systems:
• Artifact Repositories:
• Messaging systems:
• Observability systems:
• Container Platforms
• Virtual Machines
• Infrastructure as Code:
• Demonstrated communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Ability to operate at both a strategic and tactical level, influencing architectural direction and rolling up sleeves when needed
• Preferred technical and professional experience
• Proficiency in Modern Programming Languages possessing a solid understanding of programming languages, with a specific emphasis on proficiency in languages such as Java and Python.
• Containerization and Orchestration Mastery proficiency in containerization and orchestration using Openshift or Kubernetes, highlighting the ability to design and manage scalable and efficient application deployments.
• Leadership in cross-team initiatives, open-source projects, or internal platform transformations

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
? 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 an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.
The likely salary range for this position is $145,350 - $196,650. 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: None
Telecommuting Options: Hybrid
Work Location: USA NY Menands
Additional Work Locations:
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.
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.
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