Product Systems Engineer Sr. Principal - Lead

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We are GDIT. As one of the largest IT and mission services providers to the government, we own our opportunities to better enable healthcare organizations to identify theirs. You can make GDIT your place. You make it your own by turning obstacles into action. By owning your opportunity at GDIT, you’ll play an important role in providing the technologies and services that millions of healthcare professionals depend on every day.

Our work depends on a Product Systems Engineer Sr. Principal - Lead joining our team to support federal Indian Health Service (IHS) Electronic Health Record (EHR) modernization program activities. As a Product Systems Engineer Sr. Principal - Lead supporting the IHS EHR program, you will be trusted to manage a variety of topics and efforts to ensure the success of our customer.

This position is fully remote, US BASED. This role requires you to obtain and maintain an in-depth Public Trust Level 5. This investigation will review personal and criminal behavior, financial conduct, foreign influence, as well as other adjudications.

HOW A PRODUCT SYSTEMS ENGINEER SR. PRINCIPAL – LEAD WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Lead and grow a Product Systems Engineering team in the broader program Engineering organization tasked with collecting and implementing requirements to meet customer and program objectives

• Support Deployment team efforts in implementing Oracle Health (Cerner) solutions across multiple IHS facilities over extended period of time

• Support Sustainment team efforts in ensuring existing IHS facilities are operational, current in technology, and able to adopt additional product capabilities, among other tasks

• Partner with Infrastructure, Cloud Hosting, and Cybersecurity internal and customer teams where such focus areas intersect

• Understand and manage technical design of other GDIT-managed systems, providing senior technical leadership across product systems and engineering activities

• Identify systems architecture patterns that align with FedRAMP controls and enterprise standards, document system context diagrams, sequence diagrams, and data flow diagrams

• Collaborate with cybersecurity to ensure alignment with NIST CSF, NIST 800‑53, PPSM, and agency policies; collect artifacts for ATO approvals

• Understand, document and lead across teams to deploy Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations (COOP) activities with cloud hosting partner

• Lead efforts to understand, document and implement policies and processes for system-to-system connections management, including Ports, Protocols and Service Management (PPSM) policies and associated documentation

• Participate in cross-functional teams tasked with implementing new or emerging vendor (chiefly Oracle Health) capabilities, or greenfield initiatives

• Understand and effectively communicating technical status to various stakeholders

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Experience with Oracle Health (Cerner) Millennium EHR software suite

• Bachelor's degree or 10+ years of equivalent work experience

• Ability to lead a technical team of 3-6 employees

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and achieve successful outcomes

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Level 5 clearance. This includes a background verification and fingerprinting.

• Ability to travel 25% of the year, if needed

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience deploying/operating in FedRAMP-authorized environments

• Familiarity with NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST 800‑53, and agency-specific overlays.

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) design/operations experience (networking, IAM, policies, compartments)

• Exposure to healthcare interoperability (e.g., HL7 v2, FHIR, CCD/C‑CDA, IHE profiles).

• Experience with PPSM policy enforcement and documentation

• Background in Disaster Recovery/COOP planning and execution for mission systems.

• Prior Federal health experience (e.g., VA/DoD EHR, HHS agencies)

• Ability to communicate and interact effectively with internal/external teams including key stakeholders, various customer teams, and/or executive leadership

• Ability to work and support the work of others across multiple U.S. time zones

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and within tight deadlines, following detailed written policies, processes, procedures, and work instructions

• Ability to produce high-quality documentation

SECURITY CLEARANCE LEVEL:

• Must be able to obtain a SSBI (T5) public trust clearance, which requires residency in the U.S. for 3 of the last 5 years.

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 is 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.

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