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Software Development Manager leading development of GDIT’s federal case-management and workflow platform. Balancing Agile delivery, modernization, security, and production stability.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor developers, QA engineers, automation engineers, and technical resources across the platform
- Coordinate development activities across internal teams and vendor resources
- Promote accountability, collaboration, technical quality, and operational awareness
- Support resource planning, prioritization, and sprint delivery
- Work with the Scrum Master on sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Oversee design, development, testing, and deployment of enterprise web applications and workflow solutions
- Support scalable, maintainable, and secure application architecture and coding standards
- Collaborate with Infrastructure and Operations to troubleshoot production issues and support system stability
- Support CI/CD improvements, automation initiatives, and application modernization
- Coordinate releases and align deployments with operational and security requirements
- Support root-cause analysis and remediation of production incidents
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for application development and system integrations
- Support API integrations, backend services, document-processing workflows, and platform enhancements
- Work with QA and automation teams to improve regression testing and deployment reliability
- Support monitoring, logging, and application performance improvements
- Ensure development aligns with federal security and compliance requirements
- Promote continuous improvement in development processes, Agile delivery, documentation, and operational readiness
- Track technical risks, dependencies, and delivery progress; communicate status to leadership
- Support development standards, code reviews, testing practices, and release management
- Ensure deliverables meet customer expectations, operational requirements, and quality standards
- Lead development for a large-scale federal case management and workflow platform supporting mission-critical operations and high-volume transaction processing
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree and 10+ years of experience in application and/or system development
- 5+ years' experience managing technical teams, including developers, architects, and test/QA engineers, in an Agile environment
- Expertise in Java, JavaScript frameworks, SQL, REST APIs, and CI/CD technologies
- Experience enforcing development quality standards, including code reviews, definition of done (DoD), and readiness gates before QA handoff
- Strong experience leading Agile software development efforts in large enterprise or federal environments
- Experience supporting mission-critical applications with high availability requirements
- Strong understanding of SDLC processes, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, and enterprise application architecture
- Experience working across Development, Infrastructure, Security, Operations, and PMO teams
- Ability to challenge incomplete or ambiguous requirements and drive clarity before development begins
- No security clearance currently required; BI Full 6C (T4) public trust/other requirement
- U.S. citizenship not required
- Desired: low-code application platforms, tools, software architecture, design patterns, and best practices
- Desired: Micropact (Entellitrak), Appian, Salesforce, Pega, ServiceNow, Oracle, Outsystems, Mendix, OpenText, or Microsoft experience
- Desired: CMS/Medicare systems and CMS data-source integration experience
- Desired: U.S. federal government contracting experience and familiarity with the full contract lifecycle
- Strong communication, leadership, troubleshooting, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to balance operational support, modernization initiatives, and Agile delivery priorities
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
Benefits:
- Medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 401(k) plan with pre- and post-tax contributions and company match
- Flexible work weeks where possible
- Vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
- Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Up to 160 hours of paid family leave 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
- Remote work
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