Veterans Healthcare CTO
GDIT is seeking a Veterans Healthcare CTO with deep Department of Veterans Affairs experience and understanding of existing/emerging commercial technologies. This position will bridge the gap between customer mission needs, GDIT technology solutions, and external technologies. It will drive the business strategy and technical solutions needed to deliver modernization and innovation for our critical customers. This is one of the company's most important customer-facing roles, and it will give you the opportunity to provide strategic direction and to interact with the bleeding-edge technologies that we are bringing to our customers. To be successful in this role you must be able to translate relevant details about technologies into a language that VA personnel appreciate and can be understood by management and other stakeholders.
Timeline:This is a contingent posting, expected to start in August, 2026
HOW Veterans Healthcare CTO WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
As a Veterans Healthcare CTO supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs in Austin, TX, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. The Veterans Healthcare CTO is responsible for evaluating existing technological solutions, vendors, and processes to identify opportunities for improvement and enhancement, with a focus on introducing new capabilities that meet client needs. This involves conducting thorough analysis and research to determine optimal partnerships and on-contract delivery options, as well as developing and testing rapid prototyping to demonstrate the feasibility and potential of new ideas and capabilities. Additionally, you will collaborate with operational teams to facilitate a seamless transition of new technologies and solutions, ensuring long-term success for Veterans Affairs mission objectives.
You will turn a complex multi-vendor environment into a single, measurable platform that delivers visible results for executives, engineers, and end users. By standardizing patterns for cloud, network, identity, observability, and delivery, youll raise availability and security while shortening time-to-value. Your innovations will introduce automation, AIOps, and progressive delivery where they move the metrics. Youll connect reliability and performance to dollars and unit costs, forecast accuracy, and verified savings, so leadership can fund what works and retire what doesnt. Youll make change understandable and easy to adopt.
WHAT YOULL NEED TO SUCCEED:
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
If you are energized by leading at federal scale, turning best practice into everyday practice, and delivering measurable improvements in reliability, security, experience, and cost, wed like to meet you.
