[Hiring] Configuration and Change Manager @General Dynamics Information Technology

Role Description

Configuration and Change Manager

Apply your expertise to mature how we baseline, track, and control change across engineering, test, and integration environments at GDIT. Here, you’ll support our customers’ most important missions with smart, scalable solutions while we support you in growing and developing your career in technology.

As a Configuration and Change Manager, you will bridge Engineering, Test, Integration, Lab, and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to bring discipline, traceability, and clear ownership to how changes are baselined, gated, and approved.

• Own and mature the Change & Configuration Management practice, including governance, workflows, and continuous improvement of baselining and approval processes.
• Establish and maintain configuration baselines across systems, software, and documentation, and prevent configuration drift.
• Stand up and enforce change workflows, including intake, impact assessment, approval boards, and documented disposition of changes.
• Author and maintain governing documentation for the Change & Configuration Management practice, including the Change Management Process, board charters, CM Plan, and other supporting material.
• Enforce adherence to configuration and change control processes across all program teams (inclusive of the engineering, test, and integration teams).
• Experience administering version control practices (i.e., GIT), tying code and configuration changes back to approved change records.
• Maintain and evolve Jira-based change and configuration workflows, including issue types and approval boards, to support the Change & Configuration Management practice.
• Facilitate Change boards (Internal Engineering Review Board (ERB) and the Change Advisory Board (CAB)).
• Collaborate with engineers and Scrum Masters to align change and configuration activities with sprint and release schedules.
• Maintain traceability between changes and approved scope, reducing rework, risk, and complexity across environments and releases enabling cross collaboration Engineering, Test, Integration, Lab, and MBSE.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in configuration management or change management, including direct experience owning and enforcing configuration and change control processes.
• Strong background working with systems engineers and with approval/governance bodies such as Change Boards.

Requirements

• Experience using Jira to manage change records, configuration items, and work backlogs within an Agile/Scrum delivery environment.
• Experience with Git repository management and version control practices, applied to configuration control.
• Strong attention to detail and process discipline; ability to enforce standards consistently across cross-functional engineering and test teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to author governance documentation and lead approval board discussions.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.
• 401K with company match.
• Competitive pay and paid time off.
• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home.
• Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace.