Remote App Dev Team Lead - AI, Cloud & DevSecOps

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; Virginia; Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 199,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking an Application Development Team Manager to lead a distributed software group spanning legacy, modern, and cloud-native systems.

You will drive high-quality delivery, modernization, and secure engineering practices while building a collaborative, high-trust team culture. You will oversee project planning, agile execution, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and AI-assisted delivery using tools like Kiro, Claude Code, and OpenAI solutions, ensuring

Qualifications

• 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.
• Hands-on experience with modern application technologies such as Java, Spring, Hibernate, SQL, React, Python, AWS cloud services, Kubernetes, and associated integration patterns.

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. Oversee contract obligations and ensure commitments are met.
• 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. Promote best practices that improve maintainability, reliability, and performance.
• DevSecOps and CI/CD: Ensure secure development and automated testing and deployment pipelines across relevant tech stacks. Drive the adoption of DevSecOps practices, infrastructure‑as‑code, automated quality checks, and continuous delivery into AWS and Kubernetes environments.
• 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. Protect security, privacy, and sensitive data, and ensure traceability and accountability for AI‑assisted work.
• Compliance and Review: Apply working knowledge of compliance, security, and contractual requirements. Implement structured code, peer, and release reviews so all changes are validated before production.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Partner with customers, product owners, architects, security, infrastructure, and other stakeholders. Communicate decisions, progress, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Continuous Improvement and Modernization: Use delivery, quality, and cycle‑time metrics to evaluate both traditional and AI‑assisted approaches. Drive modernization of legacy systems, cloud migration, and process improvements that increase efficiency, resiliency, and scalability.

Skills

Agile Delivery

Application Development

AWS Cloud Operations

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking an Application Development Team Manager to lead a distributed software group spanning legacy, modern, and cloud-native systems.

You will drive high-quality delivery, modernization, and secure engineering practices while building a collaborative, high-trust team culture. You will oversee project planning, agile execution, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and AI-assisted delivery using tools like Kiro, Claude Code, and OpenAI solutions, ensuring