GDIT is seeking an experienced Enclave Technical Lead to serve as the handson technical lead for a secure, multicloud research enclave supporting a federal data access and linkage initiative. This role owns technical architecture, engineering, and security for design, implementation, ATO, and operations in cloud environments handling sensitive research and health data. The Enclave Technical Lead works closely with security, program and technical teams.

How an Enclave Technical Lead Will Make an Impact

• Lead technical design and implementation of the enclave, including multicloud architecture, data components, virtual desktops, and core platform services for data access, linkage, and analytics.
• Translate FISMA Moderate, FedRAMP Moderate, CMS ARS, NIST, and Zero Trust requirements into architectures, controls, and configurations.
• Design and oversee IAM, RBAC, logging and monitoring, data ingestion, and HPC capabilities to support research workloads.
• Drive Zero Trust implementation, including segmentation, continuous monitoring, leastprivilege enforcement, and integration with federated identity and authentication services.
• Build, refine, and automate onboarding, workspace provisioning, and usage monitoring to support enclave operations, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Design and manage the secure management and tracking of RWD going into and through the cloud for use by researchers
• Coordinate with program and technical leads to ensure secure, performant pipelines for ingest, masking, linkage, and researchready file creation within enclave workflows.
• Lead enclave security and compliance lifecycle, including control implementation, evidence development, independent assessments, remediation, & continuous monitoring.
• Provide technical direction and mentoring to enclave engineers, architects, security engineers, SREs, and operations staff.

What Youll Need to Succeed

• Bachelors degree in a relevant field; equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Deep knowledge of federal IT and security frameworks including FISMA Moderate, FedRAMP Moderate, NIST SP 80053, NIST SP 800137, and CMS Acceptable Risk Safeguards, with familiarity with Zero Trust concepts.
• Broad technical background across networks, operating systems, cloud services, security engineering, and data platforms.
• At least 7 years of experience designing and implementing secure, largescale cloud or enclave environments for federal or highly regulated customers, including multiaccount and multicloud architectures.
• Proven experience as a technical lead for efforts of comparable size and complexity, including design authority and technical mentoring.
• Handson experience with at least one major cloud provider and working in or integrating with FedRAMP Moderate environments.
• Strong understanding of IAM, RBAC, encryption at rest and in transit, centralized logging, security event monitoring, and continuous monitoring in support of ATO.
• Experience supporting or leading ATO efforts for Moderate systems, including security documentation and collaboration with independent assessors.
• Strong collaboration skills with crossfunctional technical and program teams, and excellent written and verbal communication for technical and executive audiences.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or higher and authorization to work in the United States.
• Willingness to travel 1025% to support onsite collaboration in the DC Metro area.

Preferred

• Masters degree in a related technical field.
• Professional certifications in areas such as cloud architecture, information security, or DevSecOps.
• Direct experience designing or operating research enclaves or data platforms that support sensitive federal or health data in multicloud environments.
• Experience with GPUenabled analytics, data lakehouse architectures, and ETL or ELT pipelines for large, longitudinal administrative or clinical datasets.
• Prior work with federal health or research agencies on data access, data linkage, or realworld data initiatives.
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks such as DAMADMBOK and master and metadata management concepts for large research data environments.

GDIT is Your Place
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