Configuration and Change Manager

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Secret

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Change Controls, Change Management Processes, Collaboration Certifications: None Experience: 5 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: Yes

Job 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.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

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.

Job Description:

• Own and mature the Change & Configuration Management practicer, 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.

• Maintain traceability between changes and approved scope, reducing rework, risk, and complexity across environments and releases.

• Enable cross collaboration Engineering, Test, Integration, Lab, and MBSE.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Bring your software development expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Configuration and Change Manager must have:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.

Required Experience: 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.

Required Technical Skills: 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.

Desired Technical Skills: Experience configuring workflows, issue types, and approval gates in Jira or a comparable work-management platform.

Desired Certifications: ITIL 4 Foundation or higher, configuration management certification (e.g., CMII), Agile/Scrum certification (e.g., CSM) is a plus.

Security Clearance Level: Secret

Required Skills and Abilities: 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.

Preferred Skills: Experience working with Government customers; experience operating in a hybrid engineering/ITSM environment rather than a traditional service-desk setting.

Location: Remote. Up to 25% travel

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities

• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals

• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, competitive pay and paid time off

• Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home

• Community: Award-winning culture…