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About the Role
The 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.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop efficient, scalable solutions for complex application functionality.
- Lead technical design sessions and provide expert input on requirements, solution options, timelines, risks, and system impacts.
- Design 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.
- Translate functional and non-functional requirements into detailed technical design artifacts including class diagrams, sequence diagrams, API specs, data models, and integration designs.
- Develop authentication and authorization modules for Individuals, Employers, Brokers, Navigators, Customer Service Representatives, and Super Eligibility Users.
- Provide expert consultation on development practices, workflows, and Drools DRL rule design.
- Compare solution alternatives and communicate pros/cons across business impact, complexity, maintainability, effort, and risk.
- Investigate requirements, code, rules, data, and integrations to understand system behavior and validate assumptions.
- Assess how proposed changes affect eligibility outcomes, notices, existing members, caseworker processes, and downstream systems.
- Identify improvement opportunities in application logic, data flows, and integrations, and recommend enhancements.
- Enhance pre-processing logic, caching, and performance-critical components.
- Conduct detailed technical reviews to ensure compliance with NYSOH architecture standards.
- Collaborate with development teams on story definition, estimation, and prioritization.
- Allocate and oversee development tasks while mentoring mid-level developers on best practices.
- Ensure technical designs and delivered code meet quality, security, performance, and architectural standards.
- Remain engaged through development, testing, and release to ensure the implemented solution meets the intended business outcome.
- Support daily status updates and facilitate issue resolution with PMs, Architects, and developers.
- Lead defect triage to determine whether issues arise from design gaps, logic errors, data inconsistencies, or requirement misunderstandings.
- Perform root-cause analysis, identify the full affected population, and evaluate whether existing records require correction.
- Document remediation approaches, recommended solutions, workarounds, and risk considerations.
- Validate that fixes address both the root cause and downstream consequences before release.
- Develop proofs-of-concept (POCs) to validate new technologies, design patterns, or integration methods.
- Stay current with modern engineering approaches, design methodologies, and industry best practices.
- Use 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.
- Collaborate with business analysts, developers, and clients to troubleshoot issues and ensure functional accuracy.
- Apply engineering principles and Java design patterns to strengthen system reliability and maintainability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related technical field, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
- 10+ years of software design/development experience
- Five+ years in a technical leadership or managerial role.
- Experience leading technical teams in large-scale enterprise applications.
Skills
- Java Software Development
- Large-Scale Project Management
- Leadership Development
- Software Design and Development (SDD)
- Java
- Spring
- Hibernate
- REST/SOAP services
- MuleSoft
- DB2
- Drools
- AI tools
Location
- USA NY Albany
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-flex work week
Experience Level
- 10+ years of related experience
- Five+ years in a technical leadership or managerial role.
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related technical field, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
Salary/Compensations
- $148,750 - $201,250
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay and paid time off
- Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 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
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Business travel and accident insurance
About the Company
- GDIT is a global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions 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 mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
Equal Opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans