Mission-Critical App Architect & Tech Lead

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology seeks a Lead Engineer to drive end-to-end software engineering for mission and enterprise apps in classified environments. You’ll own architecture, secure development standards, lifecycle, and overall health of the portfolio, including managing technical debt, code quality, integration patterns, and production readiness.

You will lead teams delivering web, backend, API and AI-enabled capabilities, set standards for code reviews, testing, and deployments,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a computer science or related field is required.
• Minimum 12+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years leading development teams and 3+ years in architecture or technical leadership.
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own application architecture principles, reference patterns, technology standards, coding standards, API patterns, UI practices, and decisions.
• Lead software teams delivering web, backend, API, workflow, data-integrated, and AI-enabled mission capabilities.
• Establish repository, branching, code review, automated testing, security scanning, release, and DoD definition-of-done standards.
• Translate requirements into designs, backlogs, estimates, risks, and production-ready releases.
• Design integration and modernization for legacy systems with adapters, APIs, events, and feature flags.
• Ensure identity/access, data classification, validation, audit/logging, error handling, accessibility, resilience, and performance.
• Partner with Platform/DevSecOps, Security, Data, AI, ServiceNow, and Operations on lifecycle gates.
• Manage technical debt, drift, defect trends, test coverage, vulnerability remediation, and reliability improvements.
• Hire, mentor, and develop software personnel; address performance and progression.
• Brief Government leadership on delivery status, risk, quality, and roadmap decisions.

Skills

Applications Architecture

Architecture Principles

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology seeks a Lead Engineer to drive end-to-end software engineering for mission and enterprise apps in classified environments. You’ll own architecture, secure development standards, lifecycle, and overall health of the portfolio, including managing technical debt, code quality, integration patterns, and production readiness.

You will lead teams delivering web, backend, API and AI-enabled capabilities, set standards for code reviews, testing, and deployments,