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Join GDIT as a Technical Design Manager and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.\nThe work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of our New York State client. You will play a crucial role as you join our team in partnership with New York State of Health (NYSoH) to provide comprehensive health coverage to more than 7.0 million New Yorkers through its Health Benefit Exchange (HBE)\nMEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT\nThe Technical Design Manager will provide strategic, technical, and people leadership for the design and development of complex application components within the NYSOH platform. This role oversees Senior Technical Designers and collaborates closely with architects, project managers, and development teams to ensure high-quality, scalable, and compliant technical solutions. The Technical Design Manager is responsible for establishing design standards, driving architectural alignment, and ensuring efficient execution across multiple development streams.\nTechnical Solution Design & Development\nDesign and develop efficient, scalable solutions for complex application functionality.\nLead technical design sessions and provide expert input on requirements, solution options, timelines, risks, and system impacts.\nDesign and implement features such as eligibility determination, verification workflows, immigration processes, income calculations, and member-level eligibility using Java, Spring, Hibernate, MuleSoft, REST/SOAP services, and DB2.\nTranslate functional and non-functional requirements into detailed technical design artifacts including class diagrams, sequence diagrams, API specs, data models, and integration designs.\nDevelop authentication and authorization modules for Individuals, Employers, Brokers, Navigators, Customer Service Representatives, and Super Eligibility Users.\nProvide expert consultation on development practices, workflows, and Drools DRL rule design.\nCompare solution alternatives and communicate pros/cons across business impact, complexity, maintainability, effort, and risk.\nSystem Analysis & Investigation\nInvestigate requirements, code, rules, data, and integrations to understand system behavior and validate assumptions.\nAssess how proposed changes affect eligibility outcomes, notices, existing members, caseworker processes, and downstream systems.\nIdentify improvement opportunities in application logic, data flows, and integrations, and recommend enhancements.\nEnhance pre-processing logic, caching, and performance-critical components.\nConduct detailed technical reviews to ensure compliance with NYSOH architecture standards.\nTechnical Delivery & Leadership\nCollaborate with development teams on story definition, estimation, and prioritization.\nAllocate and oversee development tasks while mentoring mid-level developers on best practices.\nEnsure technical designs and delivered code meet quality, security, performance, and architectural standards.\nRemain engaged through development, testing, and release to ensure the implemented solution meets the intended business outcome.\nSupport daily status updates and facilitate issue resolution with PMs, Architects, and developers.\nDefect Analysis & Resolution\nLead defect triage to determine whether issues arise from design gaps, logic errors, data inconsistencies, or requirement misunderstandings.\nPerform root-cause analysis, identify the full affected population, and evaluate whether existing records require correction.\nDocument remediation approaches, recommended solutions, workarounds, and risk considerations.\nValidate that fixes address both the root cause and downstream consequences before release.\nInnovation & AI-Driven Improvement\nDevelop proofs-of-concept (POCs) to validate new technologies, design patterns, or integration methods.\nStay current with modern engineering approaches, design methodologies, and industry best practices.\nUse approved AI tools to support code analysis, impact assessment, design exploration, and test scenario generation - validating results against system behavior and business requirements while protecting sensitive information.\nCollaborate with business analysts, developers, and clients to troubleshoot issues and ensure functional accuracy.\nApply engineering principles and Java design patterns to strengthen system reliability and maintainability.\nWHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED\nBring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Technical Design Manager must have:\nEducation:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related technical field, OR equivalent combination of education and experience \nExperience:\n10+ years of software design/development experience\nFive+ years in a technical leadership or managerial role.\nExperience leading technical teams in large-scale enterprise applications.\nSkills:\nDeep expertise in Java, Spring, Hibernate, REST/SOAP services, MuleSoft, and DB2.\nStrong knowledge of architecture patterns, design principles, and rule-based systems (Drools).\nDemonstrated experience managing technical staff, making hands-on design decisions, and applying AI tools to engineering work.\nExceptional communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving abilities with experience in complex systems and defect analysis.\nGDIT IS YOUR PLACE At GDIT,\nthe mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.\nGrowth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities\nSupport: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals\nRewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off\nFlexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home\nCommunity: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace\nOWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY\nExplore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.\nThe likely salary range for this position is $148,750 - $201,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.Scheduled Weekly Hours:\n40Travel Required:\nNoneTelecommuting Options:\nHybridWork Location:\nUSA NY AlbanyAdditional Work Locations:\nTotal Rewards at GDIT:\nOur benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.Our Identity Verification Process:\nAs part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.About Our Work:\nWe are GDIT. 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