Type of Requisition:Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:None
Public Trust/Other Required:NACI (T1)
Job Family:IT Infrastructure and Operations
Job Qualifications:Skills:Agile Methodology, IT Database, Leadership
Certifications:None
Experience:8 + years of related experience
ship Required:No
Job Description:GDIT is looking for a
Database Manager to join our
National Institutes of Health (NIH) CIT Hosting and Storage Services Program. We are seeking a forward-thinking technical leader who can inspire and develop teams while ensuring the reliable delivery of high-quality technology services. Our ideal candidate combines strong people leadership with technical insight and operational discipline, supported by experience and expertise aligned with the team's portfolio of supporting Oracle and Microsoft SQL database platforms and middleware technologies. This leader will provide clear direction and accountability for day-to-day operations and maintenance, service delivery, and project execution, while applying their technical understanding to guide decisions and address complex challenges. They will foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and innovation; empower team members to grow and succeed; and work closely with customers and stakeholders to deliver meaningful results. The successful candidate will balance operational excellence with modernization, ensuring the team delivers reliably today while continuously improving services and capabilities for the future.
This is a
HYBRID role with 3 days onsite in Bethesda MD.
This role will require you to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and will require you to provide onsite fingerprinting at a designated facility. This investigation may review personal and criminal behavior, financial conduct, foreign influence, as well as other adjudications. Responsibilities: - Provide day-to-day oversight for your team by delegating and prioritizing task execution, resolving roadblocks, and ensuring execution is efficient and timely for the delivery of all database services.
- In partnership with federal and program leadership, be a subject matter expert and oversee your team's service catalog; to include identifying customer demands, owning and developing the technical strategy and vision, and rallying your team to turn the vision into reality.
- Work closely with Project Managers/Scrum Masters to ensure transparent communications on project timelines, project execution, resource requirements, risk management, and status reporting. Occasionally step into project manager role you're your team's strategic projects based on need.
- Drive innovation and incorporate continuous improvement activities into your team's execution to deliver new services and new ways of working to keep pace with future customer demands.
- Oversee personnel management including staff recruitment, hiring, performance management, training, and mentoring for all team members.
- Provide oversight for incidents, coordinating with resolution parties and establishing effective communication between stakeholders during and after closure of the incident to include after-action reporting.
Required Qualifications: - BS/BA and 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience, in an IT-related discipline.
- Experience overseeing a portfolio of technology services and leading a technical team's day-to-day execution, including operations and maintenance, cloud migrations, service delivery, and project activities.
- People management experience, including recruiting, hiring, performance management, professional development, training, and mentoring a team of engineers.
- Experience leading technical projects and initiatives from planning through successful delivery.
- Broad hands-on experience and technical knowledge across enterprise database and middleware technologies including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and supporting middle platforms such as WebLogic for both on-prem and cloud environments.
- Demonstrated technical expertise with enterprise database technologies, including experience designing, operating, troubleshooting, migrating, and optimizing complex enterprise environments.
- Experience modernizing a team's technology services and delivery practices to improve efficiency, accelerate delivery, enhance customer experience, and reduce manual effort through standardization, automation, and emerging technologies such as AI.
- Experience applying Agile and project management practices to manage priorities and backlogs, facilitate Scrum or similar delivery processes, and drive technical initiatives through completion.
- Working knowledge of ITIL principles and practices, including incident, problem, service request, change, and service level management.
- Experience analyzing complex technical and operational issues, providing technical guidance, and leading teams through problem resolution.
- Strong customer and stakeholder engagement experience, with the ability to translate technical issues, risks, and recommendations for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications: - Relevant industry certifications in RHEL, Solaris, Unix, cloud technologies, ITIL, Agile, or project management.
- Experience supporting technology services within a federal government, healthcare, or similarly regulated environment.
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The likely salary range for this position is $142,792 - $166,750. 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:Less than 10%
Telecommuting Options:Hybrid
Work Location:USA MD Bethesda
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. 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.
Our Identity Verification Process:As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work:We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
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