Veterans Healthcare CTO

Req : RQ211632

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other

Required:

MBI (T2)

Job Family: Technical Solutions

Skills:

Business, Business Strategies, Cloud Platform, Emerging Technologies, Solutions Development

Experience:

15 + years of related experience

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.

This is a contingent posting, expected to start in August, 2026

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.

• Serves as the vital link between the Customer, Innovation Board and Operations functions leading:
• Technology initiatives
• Technology introductions
Integration of technology solution concepts on current programs
• Technology applications and innovation
• Assist in overall technical resources management, ensuring appropriate resources are at the right place, at the right time
• Tracking status and quality of technical support ensuring technical risks are being proactively addressed and assisting in resolving issues prior to them becoming problems
• Coordinate with Customer and Program leadership ensuring technical resources and solutions are appropriately deployed in support of customer requirements
• Coordinate all technical activities ensuring that technical solutions meet customer need requirements with appropriate technology identified, available, and prepared to support senior government engagements

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 cloudforum, network, identity, observability, and delivery, you’ll raise availability and security while shortening time-to-value. Your innovations will introduce automation, AIOps, and progressive delivery where Thrones metrics.

• Education :
  Bachelor's Degree. In lieu of a degree, an additional four years of related experience required
• Experience :
• 15+ years of experience leading and managing complex information technology initiatives
• 5+ years of Veterans Affairs experience
• Experience with multiple cloud platforms (e.g., AWS rov Microsoft Azure, Google, Oracle) to include developing hybrid applications, deploying resilient architectures, migrating data, and extending services to the edge.
• Demonstrated experience in Research & Development and Rapid Prototyping - capable of decomposing customer problems, identifying technology-based solutions, building proof-of-concept development plan, executing hands-on development,…