[Hiring] Database Services Lead @General Dynamics Information Technology

Role Description

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a DATABASE SERVICE LEAD supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects, build your skills, and grow a rewarding career.

As the Database Services Lead, you will:

• Provide senior technical leadership across VA’s Oracle, SQL Server, and cloud database platforms spanning on-premises, AWS, and Azure environments.
• Oversee database operations for mission-critical healthcare, pharmacy, benefits, identity, print/mail, and enterprise application services.
• Drive modernization, resilience, security compliance, observability, and unified processes across database administration, operations, and application services.
• Ensure high availability, strong recoverability, and alignment with federal cybersecurity mandates, VA Handbook 6500, and Zero Trust principles.
• Integrate database services with cross-functional engineering teams, lead governance and reporting, manage modernization initiatives, and maintain operational excellence across VA’s enterprise database ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 15+ years of experience in enterprise IT operations, database administration, or technical leadership.
• Experience leading federal or enterprise-scale database programs across Oracle, SQL Server, and cloud database platforms.
• Strong understanding of federal cybersecurity frameworks (NIST 800‑53, RMF, Zero Trust, TIC 3.0) and database compliance requirements.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams in multi-vendor, multi-platform environments.
• Experience modernizing database architectures, cloud transitions, virtualization migrations, and enterprise DR strategies.
• Strong skills in stakeholder communication, project management, incident response, DR/COOP alignment, and performance reporting.
• Demonstrated leadership in enterprise database operations, availability management, tuning, DR, and audit readiness.

Requirements

• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
• US Citizenship Required: Yes.

Benefits

• AI-enabled professional growth tools.
• Leadership development and internal mobility programs.
• Competitive pay, benefits, and 401(k) match.
• Mission-focused culture supporting Veterans.
• Opportunities to modernize VA’s cloud financial ecosystem and strengthen cost efficiency, accountability, and business value across nationwide operations.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• A variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• 15 days of paid leave per calendar year and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
• The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.