# Application Development Team Manager **Company**: GDIT **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $147,050 - $198,950 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://gdit.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/Any-Location--Remote/Application-Development-Team-Manager_RQ230155-2?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_87016080-6a6 ## Description The Application Development Team Manager leads a distributed software development organization spanning legacy, modern, and cloud-native systems. This role is accountable for high-quality delivery, modernization, and secure engineering practices while fostering a collaborative, high-trust team culture. The manager oversees project planning, agile execution, DevSecOps, and CI/CD pipelines, and guides developers in effective AI-assisted delivery using tools such as Kiro, Claude Code, and OpenAI-based solutions. They ensure governance and guardrails for AI, maintain compliance, and partner with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and efficient applications. **Key Responsibilities** - Development Team Leadership: Direct and support a geographically distributed team working on legacy, modernized, and cloud-native applications, ensuring clear priorities, coordination across workstreams, and consistent engineering practices. - Delivery Management: Own project planning, scheduling, resourcing, and risk management to ensure successful delivery against scope, schedule, and budget. - Agile/Scrum Execution: Run agile ceremonies; manage product and team backlogs; lead sprint planning, review, and retrospectives; and oversee release planning and tracking using Jira, Confluence, and related tools. - Engineering Standards: Define, implement, and enforce standards for coding, architecture, testing, documentation, and code reviews. - DevSecOps and CI/CD: Ensure secure development and automated testing and deployment pipelines across relevant tech stacks. - AI-Assisted Development: Enable the team to use AI tools effectively for solution design, coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and troubleshooting. - AI Guardrails and Governance: Define and enforce human-in-the-loop controls for AI-generated outputs. - Compliance and Review: Apply working knowledge of compliance, security, and contractual requirements. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with customers, product owners, architects, security, infrastructure, and other stakeholders. - Continuous Improvement and Modernization: Use delivery, quality, and cycle-time metrics to evaluate both traditional and AI-assisted approaches. **People Management** The manager is also accountable for building and developing a strong, engaged team: - Mentoring and Coaching: Provide technical and professional coaching to developers and other team members, supporting ongoing learning, AI upskilling, and career growth. - Workload Prioritization: Set clear goals and expectations, ensure work is aligned to priorities, and balance capacity across individuals and squads to avoid bottlenecks and burnout. - Performance Management: Deliver timely, constructive feedback; conduct performance reviews; recognize strong performance; and address performance concerns with clarity and fairness. - Team Culture and Engagement: Create an inclusive, respectful, and high-trust culture across remote and geographically dispersed team members. - Talent Development: Support hiring, onboarding, retention, and succession planning. **Required Technical and Management Qualifications** - A Bachelor's Degree with 5+ years of documented management or leadership experience. - 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. - Demonstrated strength in organizational skills, prioritization, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving. - 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. - Working knowledge of CI/CD, DevSecOps, cloud-native architectures, APIs, containers, automated testing, and secure development practices. - Ability to articulate architecture, trade-offs, status, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. **Required Certification** - AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate. **Preferred Certifications** - 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. - AWS Certified AI Practitioner. **Additional Desired Skills** - Familiarity with refugee and immigrant populations and related social programs. - Knowledge of federal procurement and acquisition processes. - Experience working as a consultant or contractor within the federal government. - Background in technology modernization, legacy transformation, cloud migration, or organizational change initiatives. **Other Requirements** - U.S. citizenship. - Ability to successfully complete a Public Trust background investigation. - Remote work location. The likely salary range for this position is $147,050 - $198,950. ## Skills ### Required - Agile Delivery - Application Development - AWS Cloud Operations - Java - Spring - React - Python - SQL - Kubernetes - CI/CD - DevSecOps - Cloud-native architectures - AI-assisted development ### Nice to have - Project Management Professional (PMP) - Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) - AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional - AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) - Certified SAFe Agilist or SAFe Practice Consultant - AWS Certified AI Practitioner --- Source: [Apply at gdit.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://gdit.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/Any-Location--Remote/Application-Development-Team-Manager_RQ230155-2?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)