Product Systems Engineer Sr. Principal

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

SSBI (T5)

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Cross-Functional Teamwork, Disaster Recovery (DR), Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), IT System Architecture, Systems Design

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

We are GDIT. As one of the largest IT and mission services providers to the government, we own our opportunities to better enable healthcare organizations to identify theirs. You can make GDIT your place. You make it your own by turning obstacles into action. By owning your opportunity at GDIT, you’ll play an important role in providing the technologies and services that millions of healthcare professionals depend on every day.

Our work depends on a Product Systems Engineer Sr. Principal joining our team to support federal Indian Health Service (IHS) Electronic Health Record (EHR) modernization program activities. As a Product Systems Engineer Sr. Principal supporting the IHS EHR program, you will be trusted to manage a variety of topics and efforts to ensure the success of our customer.

This position is fully remote, US Based. This role requires you to obtain and maintain an in-depth Public Trust Level 5. This investigation will review personal and criminal behavior, financial conduct, foreign influence, as well as other adjudications.

HOW A PRODUCT SYSTEMS ENGINEER SR. PRINCIPAL WILL MAKE AN IMPACT: 

• Understand, document and implement requirements to meet customer and program objectives across various technical areas

• Engage in technical design and provide oversight to GDIT-managed systems, providing senior technical leadership across product systems and engineering activities

• Define systems architecture patterns that align with FedRAMP controls and enterprise standards, document system context diagrams, sequence diagrams, and data flow diagrams

• Collaborate with cybersecurity to ensure alignment with NIST CSF, NIST 800‑53, PPSM, and agency policies; collect artifacts for ATO approvals

• Become the program subject matter expert for the Engineering Project Life Cycle, and champion its use throughout the program

• Understand, document and implement Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations (COOP) activities with cloud hosting partner

• Understand, document and implement policies and processes for system-to-system connections management, including Ports, Protocols and Service Management (PPSM) policies and associated documentation

• Participate in cross-functional teams tasked with implementing new or emerging vendor (chiefly Oracle Health) capabilities, or greenfield initiatives

• Partner with Infrastructure, Cloud Hosting, and Cybersecurity internal and customer teams where such topics intersect

• Understand and effectively communicating technical status to various stakeholders

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Experience with Oracle Health (Cerner) Millennium EHR software suite

• Bachelor's degree or 10+ years of equivalent work experience

• 5+ years in healthcare IT implementation, with large, complex systems experience (multi-vendor, multi-environment)

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and achieve successful outcomes

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Level 5 clearance

• Ability to travel 25% of the year, if needed

DESIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Experience deploying/operating in FedRAMP-authorized environments

• Familiarity with NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST 800‑53, and agency-specific overlays.

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) design/operations experience (networking, IAM, policies, compartments)

• Exposure to healthcare interoperability (e.g., HL7 v2, FHIR, CCD/C‑CDA, IHE profiles).

• Experience with PPSM policy enforcement and documentation

• Background in Disaster Recovery/COOP planning and execution for mission systems.

• Prior Federal