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Sr Enterprise Architect -Veterans Healthcare (CTO) (India)

General Dynamics Information Technology·Posted 1 week ago

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About the Role

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to work alongside federal civilian agencies. Make an impact by providing services that help the government ensure the well being and support of U.S. citizens.

Job Description

GDIT is seeking a Veterans Healthcare CTO with deep Department of Veterans Affairs experience and understanding of existing/emerging commercial technologies. This position will bridge the gap between customer mission needs, GDIT technology solutions, and external technologies. It will drive the business strategy and technical solutions needed to deliver modernization and innovation for our critical customers. This is one of the company's most important customer-facing roles, and it will give you the opportunity to provide strategic direction and to interact with the bleeding-edge technologies that we are bringing to our customers. To be successful in this role you must be able to translate relevant details about technologies into a language that VA personnel appreciate and can be understood by management and other stakeholders.

HOW VETERANS HEALTHCARE CTO WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

As a Veterans Healthcare CTO supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs in Austin, TX, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. The Veterans Healthcare CTO is responsible for evaluating existing technological solutions, vendors, and processes to identify opportunities for improvement and enhancement, with a focus on introducing new capabilities that meet client needs.

This involves conducting thorough analysis and research to determine optimal partnerships and on-contract delivery options, as well as developing and testing rapid prototyping to demonstrate the feasibility and potential of new ideas and capabilities. Additionally, you will collaborate with operational teams to facilitate a seamless transition of new technologies and solutions, ensuring long-term success for Veterans Affairs mission objectives.

Serves as the vital link between the Customer, Innovation Board and Operations functions leading:

• Technology initiatives

• Technology introductions

• Integration of technology solution concepts on current programs

• Technology applications and innovation

• Assist in overall technical resources management, ensuring appropriate resources are at the right place, at the right time

• Tracking status and quality of technical support ensuring technical risks are being proactively addressed and assisting in resolving issues prior to them becoming problems

• Coordinate with Customer and Program leadership ensuring technical resources and solutions are appropriately deployed in support of customer requirements

• Coordinate all technical activities ensuring that technical solutions meet customer need requirements with appropriate technology identified, available, and prepared to support senior government engagements

• You will turn a complex multi-vendor environment into a single, measurable platform that delivers visible results for executives, engineers, and end users. By standardizing patterns for cloud, network, identity, observability, and delivery, you’ll raise availability and security while shortening time-to-value. Your innovations will introduce automation, AIOps, and progressive delivery where they move the metrics.

• You’ll connect reliability and performance to dollars and unit costs, forecast accuracy, and verified savings, so leadership can fund what works and retire what doesn’t. You’ll make change understandable and easy to adopt.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• 15+ years of experience leading and managing complex information technology initiatives

• 5+ years of Veterans Affairs experience

• Experience with multiple cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google, Oracle) to include developing hybrid applications, deploying resilient architectures, migrating data, and extending services to the edge.

• Demonstrated experience in Research & Development and Rapid Prototyping - capable of decomposing customer problems, identifying technology-based solutions, building proof-of-concept development plan, executing hands-on development, and identifying path to scale.

• Experience developing and integrating emerging commercial technologies to meet Government security requirements

• DevSecOps experience deploying cloud and hybrid-cloud solutions with automation, containerization, and Kubernetes technologies.

• Experience in the development, drafting, and writing of technical design and architecture artifacts.

• Experience supervising and mentoring technical staff.

• Executive stewardship of large budgets and teams (100+), including vendor management and modernization investment portfolios

• Education: Bachelor's Degree. In lieu of a degree, an additional four years of related experience required

• Security clearance level: Public Trust

• Location: Hybrid – Virginia

• Timeline: This is a contingent posting, expected to start in August 2026

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

• Firm knowledge across and experience in several of the following areas: Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Managed Services, Cybersecurity, Software Application Development, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science.

• Enterprise Architecture & Platforms: Reference architectures for data center and cloud; standardized landing zones; identity and network baselines; platform engineering/IDP; Kubernetes/OpenShift; DR/BCP.

• Service Management & Observability: ITIL 4/ISO 20000 operating model, ServiceNow/ITSM, CMDB/CSDM; observability; SRE/SLOs

• Security & Compliance: NIST SP 800-53/53B, CSF 2.0, RMF ConMon/OSCAL; NIST 800-207 (Zero Trust) and TIC 3.0; M-21-31 logging; supply-chain/SSDF (SBOM, signed artifacts, provenance).

• Delivery & Automation: CI/CD with progressive deployment (blue/green, canary, feature flags); GitOps/IaC/policy-as-code; software supply-chain controls.

• Financial Stewardship: TBM/FinOps unit economics (forecast accuracy, commitment strategies, optimization backlogs, option-year benchmarking)

SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Deep understanding of VA technical approaches specifically related to next generation adoption of Cloud, AI, and Cybersecurity emerging technologies

• Demonstrated ability to strategize and co-develop solutions that accelerate VA customers' attainment of mission objectives.

• Executive Communication: Converts telemetry and finance into clear “so-what” narratives for executives, technical teams, and non-technical stakeholders; crisp decision memos and one-page scorecards.

• Outcome Orientation: Sets OKRs tied to SLOs/XLAs and unit costs; uses counter-metrics to prevent gaming; publishes trends openly.

• Talent & Culture: Builds high-performing, diverse teams; mentors leaders; establishes communities of practice; rewards learning from incidents and decommissioning work.

• Change Leadership: Partners with organizational leaders to make changes understandable and adopted; ensures training, knowledge, and communications land with releases.

• Vendor & Risk Management: Negotiates SLAs/OLAs, manages interdependencies, and exercises step-in rights when needed; runs scenario planning and continuity drills.

• Ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic, unstructured environment.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home

• 401K with company match

• Comprehensive health and wellness packages

• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you build your skills and own your career

• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and 10 company-paid holidays

Work Requirements

Years of Experience

15 + years of related experience

• may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

Less than 10%

Salary and Benefit Information

The likely salary range for this position is $162,350 - $219,650. 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.
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About Our Work

We are GDIT. A global technology and qualified services company that delivers 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 over 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, cloud, cyber and application development. Together with our customers, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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Someone who has spent 5+ years embedded in VA operations (not just as a vendor) and successfully transitioned legacy federal healthcare systems to cloud platforms.

Estimated Salary Range(low confidence)

₹35 L – ₹55 L per year

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1.Walk us through a specific VA modernization initiative you led—what was the political resistance, what was the technical blocker, and how did you unblock both?
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