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Req ID: RQ174032

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Job Family: Solutions Architect

Skills:

Basis of Estimate (BOE),People Management,Strategic Solutions

Experience:

8 + years of related experience

Job Description:

We are GDIT. The people supporting some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We deliver. Bringing the expertise needed to understand and advance critical missions. We transform. Shifting the ways clients invest in, integrate, and innovate technology solutions. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. We are there. On the ground, beside our clients, in the lab, and everywhere in between. Offering the technology transformations, strategy, and mission services needed to get the job done.

GDIT is seeking a Sr Director of Strategic Estimation with a background in technical and cost estimation to lead a team of experienced resources that support capture and proposal efforts for GDIT’s largest and most complex opportunities, creating cost estimates of GDIT solutions. This is a leader/change agent/player/coach role where you will be responsible for instituting and gaining adoption of company-wide process and leading and managing the Strategic Estimation team as they assist with creation of Estimates and Basis of Estimate (BOE) for our highest priority opportunities, helping to drive our technical and business solutions. This role is a critical role that will enable the growth of GDIT. The extent of our portfolio and the scale of our $9B company ensure that you can take on new challenges and new roles as our business and mission-impact expands.

*For local candidates, a hybrid schedule may be required to our HQ Falls Church, VA office location.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Manage the resources on the Strategic Estimation team, working with the division growth and technical leadership to understand and meet demand, assigning resources to opportunities, monitoring their progress, and enhance their skills and careers.

• Develop, build and refine standard estimation processes, re-useable estimation tools, methods, and training.Rollout the processes, tools, methods and training to all relevant and involved resources at GDIT and ensure adoption and process.

• Build, rollout and maintain a technical estimation metrics data base that utilizes relevant estimating metrics from GDIT contracts.

• Grow the estimating competency of the Strategic Estimation team and Division Solution Architect/Estimator as well as grow the understanding of the strategic importance of technical estimation across GDIT.

• Work with Capture and Solution teams in Strategy and Pre-proposal phases to identify, benchmark and collect relevant budget and estimating metrics that can be used to create defendable technical estimates.

• Lead estimating activities on large and complex proposals, including creation of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Work Package Descriptions, selection of estimation methodologies, developing estimating rationale, metrics collection as well as traditional BOE development.

• Facilitate Technical Estimate reviews to make sure all scope and requirements have been adequately estimated and have a sufficient, defendable justification.

• Develop and deliver training on estimation process, estimating techniques and methods to Capture, Solution Architects, Proposal Managers, Pricing and Program Management as needed.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Bachelor's degree plus 8+ years of related experience; OR in lieu of degree, a combination of education, training, certifications, and related work experience may be considered.

• 5+ years experience related to IT estimation in a technical, program control, or project management capacity.

• Management experience leading change and building and leading high performing teams.

• Experience with metrics based estimating methodologies.

• Excellent leadership, collaboration and communications skills; with the ability to influence others in a complex cross team environment. Must be able to work collaboratively with other members of the pursuit and proposal teams while still driving development of estimates and creation of BOEs under tight deadlines.

• Must be a collaborative, positive and forward-thinking leader with a record of change, problem solving, managing diverse / complex projects and producing results.

• Ability to write clearly and precisely and pay meticulous attention to details.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Parametric cost estimation tool experience (SEER, QSM, TruePlanning or others)

• Experience with development or delivery of IT Services

• Secret or higher Clearance

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 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 holidays

The likely salary range for this position is $184,662 - $241,500. 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.

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.

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 30 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.

We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation’s most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.

GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.