Senior Application Engineer

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Business Process Flows, Business Software Applications, Integration Development

Certifications:

None

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking a motivated Senior Application Engineer to support and maintain mission-critical business applications and integrations across enterprise systems; ensuring operational stability, performance, and security. This position combines application support, integration development, and platform management across an enterprise ecosystem.

The ideal candidate will work closely with business stakeholders and technical teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions, ensuring seamless data exchange and process automation.

This position requires a strong understanding of business processes, data flows, and data transformations, and be capable of troubleshooting complex issues in production environments. The role also ensures adherence to security, compliance, and data governance standards while driving continuous improvement and modernization of business applications and integrations.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

• Provide support for business-critical applications and integrations operations
• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of applications, integrations and enterprise systems
• Monitor system health, job execution, data flows, and respond to alerts
• Partner with functional teams to troubleshoot process issues
• Troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement fixes
• Configure and monitor batch jobs, file schedules, and dependencies
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Design, develop and maintain integrations using file-based methods or APIs
• Create and maintain data mappings between systems
• Build scalable, reusable integration components that optimize workflows
• Ensure data accuracy, transformation logic, and validation rules
• Lead testing, deployments, and migrations
• Coordinate with vendors and cross-functional teams
• Maintain design and operations documentation
• Identify and support continuous process improvement including AI adoption
• Deliver excellent customer service to business users

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Senior Applications Engineer must have:

• Education: Bachelor's degree
• Experience: 5+ years minimum supporting business critical applications, integrations, or enterprise systems
• Experience specifically working with file-based integrations (EFT/MFT), integration platforms (iPaaS, middleware), or API/web services
• Hands-on experience supporting enterprise business applications, complex process flows and integrations
• Strong understanding of enterprise system architecture, data structures, and integration patterns
• Ability to bridge technical implementation and business processes
• Experience supporting on-prem or cloud native file transfer and integration platforms
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Hands-on experience supporting batch jobs, scheduled processes, and data feeds
• Experience developing and supporting integrations for critical enterprise applications
• Experience modernizing legacy integrations moving toward APIs/event-driven models
• Strong understanding of incident, problem, and change management processes
• Experience with ITSM ticketing systems (ServiceNow, Jira, etc.)
• Ability to work with business users, vendors, and internal technical teams
• Strong documentation, communication, and customer service skills
• Ability to participate in on-call rotations and provide after-hours support when required
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Excellent customer service and issue resolution skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues to non-technical stakeholders
• Preferred: Experience supporting core business processes across Finance (accounting, planning, treasury, tax) and HR (employee lifecycle); Proven ability to adapt to new tools and technologies
• Location: remote with less than 10% 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, and competitive pay and paid time off
● Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
● Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.

The likely salary range for this position is $97,968 - $110,400. 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:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our 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. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. 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.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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