[Hiring] Development Manager @General Dynamics Information Technology

Role Description

GDIT is hiring a Development Manager supporting a Medicare Appeals/Claims platform to manage a development team comprised of application developers (staff engineers and subcontractor engineers), QA Testing Team (staff QA engineers and subcontractor QA engineers), and a solutions architect. The Development Manager collaborates with the Program Manager, Deputy Program Manager, PMO, Agile support team, Tech Lead, and the Operations team closely to ensure complete communication loops, proper status updates are given to the customer, and that work is aligned and running according to plan. The Development Manager serves as team lead and is expected to have command over all development work, processes, and outputs. This role is fully remote but must work Eastern Standard Time.

Responsibilities

• Leadership & Team Management
  • Lead and mentor development teams providing technical guidance and professional growth opportunities, and complete all GDIT manager duties.
  • Set clear goals and expectations for team members aligned with business objectives.
  • Foster a collaborative culture emphasizing communication, ownership, and accountability.
  • Resolve team conflicts and ensure a healthy, productive work environment.
  • Manage the development team and the work to ensure each release meets requirements and each deployment goes smoothly, minimizing the need for rollback.
• Planning & Delivery
  • Define and manage project roadmaps in collaboration with the Product Owner and Business Stakeholders.
  • Prioritize development work to balance feature delivery, 508 compliance, and technical debt.
  • Ensure on-time delivery of software releases while maintaining quality standards.
  • Track and report project progress using Agile (sometimes hybrid methodologies).
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams including QA, DevOps, Development, and Business Analysts.
• Technical Oversight
  • Review architecture and design proposals for scalability, performance, and maintainability.
  • Promote best coding practices — enforcing standards, peer reviews, and testing discipline.
  • Guide technology selection for tools, frameworks, and cloud services.
  • Oversee system integrations and ensure interoperability between platforms.
  • Support production stability by managing incident response and root cause analysis.
• Process & Quality
  • Implement and refine development processes (Agile ceremonies, CI/CD).
  • Measure engineering effectiveness using KPIs (velocity, defect rate, lead time, etc.).
  • Champion continuous improvement through retrospectives and lessons learned.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
  • Enforce documentation and traceability across the software lifecycle.
• Stakeholder & Communication
  • Collaborate with Product Owner to align on priorities and technical feasibility.
  • Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership and business stakeholders as proactively as possible.
  • Manage vendor resources ensuring productivity and alignment with goals.
  • Translate technical concepts into documented business value for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Advocate for the development team’s needs — tools, training, and resource allocation.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and 10+ years’ experience in application and/or system development.
• 5+ years’ experience managing technical teams including: developers, architects, and test/QA engineers in an agile environment.
• Proven ability to own end-to-end delivery, ensuring features are delivered on time, meet acceptance criteria, and pass QA without rework due to incomplete or misunderstood requirements.
• Proven ability to identify technical risks, dependencies, and constraints early and proactively communicate impacts to leadership and stakeholders.
• Ability to work in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Expertise in programming languages such as Java, JavaScript frameworks, SQL, Rest APIs and CI/CD technologies.
• Strong understanding of low code application platforms, tools, software architecture, design patterns, and best practices.
• Demonstrated experience enforcing development quality standards, including code reviews, definition of done (DoD), and readiness gates prior to QA handoff.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge incomplete or ambiguous requirements and drive clarity before development begins.

Benefits

• 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.
• 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness.
• 10 paid holidays per year.
• 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.
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance.