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:
AWS Architecture, Enterprise Solutions Architecture, Leadership Management, Mainframe Technologies Certifications:
None Experience:
10 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:
No
Job Description:
PLATFORM ENGINEER SR PRINCIPAL
Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Platform Engineer Sr Principal and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.
MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a Platform Engineer Sr. Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the New York State Department of Health Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) program. You will play a crucial role as a deputy to the program Chief Technology Officer, leading technology strategy and enterprise architecture for eMedNY at Corporate Woods in Albany, NY.
As the Platform Engineer Sr. Principal supporting eMedNY technology strategy and enterprise architecture, you will be trusted to set and defend the technical direction of one of the nation’s largest Medicaid claims processing environments — an estate spanning a mature IBM z/OS core running COBOL, CICS, DB2, and high-volume batch alongside AWS cloud-native services, with equal credibility expected on both. You will provide technical direction to the program’s leads under extremely stringent response-time and continuous-availability service level agreements and HIPAA/HITECH and FedRAMP compliance obligations. In this role, your responsibilities will be:
Set and defend the technical direction for the eMedNY enterprise architecture portfolio across both the mainframe core and the cloud-native platform as one coherent architecture, not two disconnected ones
Maintain working command of the current-state environment — z/OS, COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, and the nightly batch cycle — sufficient to arbitrate design decisions and challenge estimates
Represent the program’s technical position to New York State Department of Health leadership through briefings, formal written responses, and procurement and regulatory questions
Set technical direction for and mentor the program’s technical leads, including the security architecture and governance and technical architecture and operations functions
Own architecture governance: chair architecture, change, and delivery-assurance review boards, and maintain standards, reference architectures, and design patterns spanning both platforms
Assess new and changing CMS and New York State regulatory requirements — interoperability, prior authorization, claims attachments, and reporting mandates — for architectural impact, and shape the technical roadmap and delivery plans that meet them
Direct compliance posture against HIPAA/HITECH, NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, and FedRAMP Moderate, owning risk registers, corrective action plans, and audit and assessment response
Oversee technology evaluation and vendor and licensing decisions, including mainframe software licensing and sustainment cost, naming lock-in and supply-chain risk explicitly
Provide executive-level status reporting, technical documentation, roadmap development, and risk analysis to program, corporate, and client leadership
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Platform Engineer Sr. Principal must have:
Education: Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field; an advanced degree (MS in Information Technology or MBA) strongly preferred
Experience:
10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise or solution architecture and technology leadership, serving as a senior technical authority on large, complex programs
5+ years as the accountable technical lead on…