Engineering Manager

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:

Professional Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Leadership Management, Team Development, Team Performance, Team Productivity

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Engineering Manager

What You’ll Do:

• Lead a high-performing team of engineers (employees, internal contractors, and external contractors) to deliver high-impact features and improvements to our core services and systems
• Focus primarily on people management, team development, and strategic execution rather than hands-on coding
• Independently drive execution on projects supporting semi-annual and annual goals, navigating ambiguity and organizational change
• Foster a culture of ownership, excellence, and psychological safety where team members can grow and deliver their best work
• Set clear priorities, goals, and key metrics for your team and hold them accountable for progress while maintaining healthy team dynamics
• Partner effectively across engineering teams and with cross-functional stakeholders (product, design, customer) to deliver business and customer impact
• Build and develop a diverse, high-performing team through strategic hiring, coaching, and creating growth opportunities aligned with individual strengths and career aspirations
• Balance running the business, foundational work, and new initiatives to optimize for sustainable long-term execution
• Identify and address technical risks, system bottlenecks, and process inefficiencies that impact team productivity and outcomes
• Drive informed decision-making by gathering diverse perspectives and balancing customer value with broader business goals
• Champion engineering best practices, including architectural quality, operational excellence, and technical strategy alignment

Evidence of Leadership & Management Accomplishment:

• Demonstrated track record of leading high-performing engineering teams to deliver significant business and customer impact
• Experience managing mixed workforce models including full-time employees, internal contractors, and external contractors
• Strong people management focus with experience spending the majority of time on coaching, development, and team enablement rather than individual contribution
• Experience managing the full software development lifecycle with a focus on results, quality, and team health
• Proven ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity while maintaining team focus and morale
• Track record of building, hiring, and developing diverse engineering teams across various skill levels
• Experience setting technical direction and making architectural tradeoffs in partnership with senior

Management & Technical Excellence:

• Strong people management skills including coaching, performance management, and conflict resolution across diverse workforce models
• Experience building cohesive, high-performing teams that include a mix of employees and contractors
• Ability to provide quality technical feedback on designs and architectural decisions without being hands[1]on keyboard
• Understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and modern engineering practices
• Experience establishing efficient processes and operational cadences that drive high team performance
• Skilled at balancing technical excellence with pragmatic delivery of business value
• Comfortable reviewing system health, engineering quality, and technical strategy alignment

Ownership, Collaboration, & Communication:

• Demonstrated propensity for taking ownership of problems and driving them to resolution
• Ability to communicate with clarity and brevity, tailoring messages to different audiences and stakeholders
• Experience building deep cross-functional relationships and facilitating productive conflict
• Track record of advocating for your team while optimizing for broader organizational outcomes
• Willingness to hold crucial conversations even when uncomfortable, and ability to disagree and commit
• Creates inclusive environments where diverse perspectives are valued and team members feel psychologically safe

Adaptability & Growth:

• Growth mindset with demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and self-development
• Proven ability to embrace change, introduce new initiatives, and guide teams through organizational transitions
• Demonstrated embrace of AI and automation tools to enhance team productivity and engineering outcomes
• Track record of encouraging experimentation, learning from failures, and driving innovation within teams
• Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and ability to focus on the greater purpose to move forward

Required:

• Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C
• Position is remote, with approximately 10-20% business travel

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The likely salary range for this position is $170,000 - $230,000. 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:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

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. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. 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.

 

Our 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:

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 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 mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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