Application Development Team Manager

General Dynamics Information Technology•USA VA Home Office (VAHOME), VA

4d•$147,050 - $198,950•Remote

About The Position

The Application Development Team Manager leads a distributed software development organization working across legacy, modernized, and cloud-native systems. The role is accountable for high-quality delivery, modernization, secure engineering practices, and a collaborative, high-trust team culture. The manager oversees project planning, agile execution, DevSecOps, and CI/CD pipelines, and guides developers in using AI-assisted tools and workflows. The role also establishes governance and guardrails for AI, maintains compliance, and partners with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and efficient applications. The manager provides end-to-end leadership for teams working with Java/Spring, React, Python, SQL, AWS, and Kubernetes. This includes managing delivery commitments, setting engineering standards, coordinating with stakeholders, and using metrics to improve delivery, quality, and cycle time. The position also includes people-management responsibilities such as coaching, workload prioritization, performance management, team engagement, hiring support, onboarding, retention, and succession planning. The position is remote, requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to complete a Public Trust background investigation, and has 40 scheduled weekly hours. The stated likely salary range is $147,050–$198,950, with compensation dependent on experience, location, and potentially contractual requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of documented management or leadership experience, such as product management, project management, software development management, or team leadership.
At least 5 years of experience across the full software development lifecycle, including agile delivery.
Proven experience leading senior developers and/or multidisciplinary application teams, including remote or distributed teams.
Strong organizational, prioritization, communication, stakeholder-management, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives.
Hands-on experience with modern application technologies such as Java, Spring, Hibernate, SQL, React, Python, AWS cloud services, Kubernetes, and associated integration patterns.
Experience using AI-assisted development tools across the lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, code review, documentation, and troubleshooting.
Working knowledge of CI/CD, DevSecOps, cloud-native architectures, APIs, containers, automated testing, and secure development practices.
Ability to explain architecture, tradeoffs, status, risks, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification is required.
U.S. citizenship.
Ability to successfully complete a Public Trust background investigation.

Nice To Haves

Project Management Professional (PMP) and/or Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
Certified SAFe Agilist or SAFe Practice Consultant, particularly for scaled agile environments.
AWS Certified AI Practitioner.
Familiarity with refugee and immigrant populations and related social programs.
Knowledge of federal procurement and acquisition processes.
Experience as a consultant or contractor within the federal government.
Background in technology modernization, legacy transformation, cloud migration, or organizational change initiatives.

Responsibilities

Lead and support a geographically distributed team working on legacy, modernized, and cloud-native applications; set priorities, coordinate workstreams, and promote consistent engineering practices.
Own project planning, scheduling, resourcing, and risk management; deliver against scope, schedule, and budget; oversee contract obligations and commitments.
Run agile ceremonies, manage product and team backlogs, lead sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, and oversee release planning and tracking using Jira, Confluence, and related tools.
Define, implement, and enforce standards for coding, architecture, testing, documentation, and code reviews.
Promote practices that improve maintainability, reliability, and performance.
Ensure secure development and automated testing and deployment pipelines across relevant technology stacks; advance DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, automated quality checks, and continuous delivery into AWS and Kubernetes environments.
Enable effective use of AI tools for solution design, coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and troubleshooting; promote agentic workflows and AI teaming.
Define and enforce human-in-the-loop controls for AI-generated outputs; protect security, privacy, and sensitive data, and ensure traceability and accountability for AI-assisted work.
Apply working knowledge of compliance, security, and contractual requirements; implement structured code, peer, and release reviews before production.
Partner with customers, product owners, architects, security, infrastructure, and other stakeholders; communicate decisions, progress, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
Use delivery, quality, and cycle-time metrics to evaluate traditional and AI-assisted approaches; drive legacy modernization, cloud migration, and process improvements that increase efficiency, resiliency, and scalability.
Coach developers and other team members, supporting ongoing learning, AI upskilling, and career growth.
Set clear goals and expectations, align work to priorities, and balance capacity across individuals and squads to avoid bottlenecks and burnout.
Provide timely, constructive feedback; conduct performance reviews, recognize strong performance, and address performance concerns fairly and clearly.
Foster an inclusive, respectful, high-trust culture across remote and geographically dispersed team members, with collaboration, transparency, and psychological safety.
Support hiring, onboarding, retention, and succession planning; develop a team with skills for legacy maintenance, modernization, and cloud-native development.

Benefits

Medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts.
Dental plan options.
Vision plan.
401(k) plan with pre-tax and post-tax contributions and company match.
Full flex work weeks where possible.
Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for vacations, personal business, and illness, prorated based on hire date.
Up to 10 paid holidays per year, prorated based on hire date.
Paid Family Leave of up to 160 hours in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.
Short- and long-term disability benefits.
Life insurance.
Accidental death and dismemberment insurance.
Personal accident insurance.
Critical illness insurance.
Business travel and accident insurance.