Enclave Technical Lead

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

BI Full 6C (T4)

Job Family:

Cyber and IT Risk Management

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Building Architecture, Cloud Based Services, Computer Security, Data Access, Security Information

Certifications:

None

Experience:

7 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking an experienced Enclave Technical Lead to serve as the hands‑on technical lead for a secure, multi‑cloud research enclave supporting a federal data access and linkage initiative. This role owns technical architecture, engineering, and security for design, implementation, ATO, and operations in cloud environments handling sensitive research and health data. The Enclave Technical Lead works closely with security, program and technical teams.

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How an Enclave Technical Lead Will Make an Impact

• Lead technical design and implementation of the enclave, including multi‑cloud architecture, data components, virtual desktops, and core platform services for data access, linkage, and analytics.
• Translate FISMA Moderate, FedRAMP Moderate, CMS ARS, NIST, and Zero Trust requirements into architectures, controls, and configurations.
• Design and oversee IAM, RBAC, logging and monitoring, data ingestion, and HPC capabilities to support research workloads.
• Drive Zero Trust implementation, including segmentation, continuous monitoring, least‑privilege enforcement, and integration with federated identity and authentication services.
• Build, refine, and automate onboarding, workspace provisioning, and usage monitoring to support enclave operations, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Design and manage the secure management and tracking of RWD going into and through the cloud for use by researchers
• Coordinate with program and technical leads to ensure secure, performant pipelines for ingest, masking, linkage, and research‑ready file creation within enclave workflows.
• Lead enclave security and compliance lifecycle, including control implementation, evidence development, independent assessments, remediation, & continuous monitoring.
• Provide technical direction and mentoring to enclave engineers, architects, security engineers, SREs, and operations staff.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field; equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Deep knowledge of federal IT and security frameworks including FISMA Moderate, FedRAMP Moderate, NIST SP 800‑53, NIST SP 800‑137, and CMS Acceptable Risk Safeguards, with familiarity with Zero Trust concepts.
• Broad technical background across networks, operating systems, cloud services, security engineering, and data platforms.
• At least 7 years of experience designing and implementing secure, large‑scale cloud or enclave environments for federal or highly regulated customers, including multi‑account and multi‑cloud architectures.
• Proven experience as a technical lead for efforts of comparable size and complexity, including design authority and technical mentoring.
• Hands‑on experience with at least one major cloud provider and working in or integrating with FedRAMP Moderate environments.
• Strong understanding of IAM, RBAC, encryption at rest and in transit, centralized logging, security event monitoring, and continuous monitoring in support of ATO.
• Experience supporting or leading ATO efforts for Moderate systems, including security documentation and collaboration with independent assessors.
• Strong collaboration skills with cross‑functional technical and program teams, and excellent written and verbal communication for technical and executive audiences.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or higher and authorization to work in the United States.
• Willingness to travel 10–25% to support on‑site collaboration in the DC Metro area.

Preferred

• Master’s degree in a related technical field.
• Professional certifications in areas such as cloud architecture, information security, or DevSecOps.
• Direct experience designing or operating research enclaves or data platforms that support sensitive federal or health data in multi‑cloud environments.
• Experience with GPU‑enabled analytics, data lakehouse architectures, and ETL or ELT pipelines for large, longitudinal administrative or clinical datasets.
• Prior work with federal health or research agencies on data access, data linkage, or real‑world data initiatives.
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks such as DAMA‑DMBOK and master and metadata management concepts for large research data environments.

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.

The likely salary range for this position is $162,037 - $219,227. 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:

10-25%

Telecommuting Options:

Hybrid

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.

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