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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Defense CTO Cyber Capability Team Lead & Solutions Senior Director - **Company:** General Dynamics Information Technology - **Location:** Falls Church, VA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $215,467.0 - $276,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Zero Trust Network Access, Information Technology, Multiaccess Edge Computing, Cyber Warfare - **Published:** June 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/d73e02dd-ccf9-4d21-b7a0-6c46b48655cd ## About the Role Cyber Defense, Cyber Operations, Team Leadership, 15 + years of related experience, * Education: Bachelor's in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or Business-related field or equivalent experience of four more years of work experience * Required Experience: 15+ years of progressive technical and team leadership experience with cyber, zero trust, infrastructure, and edge computing technologies in both selling and delivery contexts. * Required Leadership Experience: 20+ years of demonstrated leadership experience supervising and coaching employees on highly performing technical teams that deliver in a dynamic selling and delivery environment * Security Clearance Level: SECRET required with ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI * Required Skills and Abilities: Strong communication, analytical, time management and organizational discipline to drive highly technical teams in a rapidly evolving business environment. * Preferred Skills: Experience working with Government Customers, specifically the US Military. * ship Required ## Description As the Defense CTO Cyber Capability Team Lead & Solutions Senior Director, you own our full-spectrum Cyber portfolio-offensive, defensive, OT/ICS, and platform & weapons cyber-connecting strategy to execution to deliver secure, mission-aligned modernization outcomes across Defense. You lead a high-performing remote team and curate market-ready offerings and talent that accelerate Growth (pursuit, solutioning) and Delivery (execution) from enterprise to edge. You also lead IRAD investments to shape, prove, and transition leading and bleeding-edge technologies-both from partners and from novel approaches we develop-into differentiated customer outcomes. HOW WILL A CTO Cyber Capability Team Lead MAKE AN IMPACT? Own the full-spectrum Cyber capability: define and continuously evolve offerings across offensive, defensive, OT/ICS, and platform & weapons cyber; ensure each capability has clear value props, reusable assets, and delivery playbooks. Curate offerings and talent for the market: build and govern a portfolio of Cyber offerings; develop talent pipelines, role profiles, and upskilling paths; ensure solution architects and delivery leads are aligned to priority pursuits and programs. Lead end-to-end solutioning for Defense: translate complex mission requirements into compliant, compelling architectures; drive Zero Trust/RMF alignment in proposals, orals, and executive briefings. Accelerate Growth and Delivery: shape opportunities, partner with offering owners and delivery leaders, and integrate capabilities to open new business and shorten time-to-value. Direct IRAD strategy and execution: prioritize bets, run experiments and proofs, integrate leading/bleeding-edge partner tech, and measure transition-to-program (T2P) and value created; operationalize wins across the portfolio. Stand up communities of practice: produce patterns, playbooks, and reusable assets for modernizing enterprise and edge environments; broadcast wins and codify best practices. Elevate delivery excellence: align methods to customer needs, enforce outcome metrics and operating cadence, and coach teams for performance in dynamic selling and delivery contexts. 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