Senior Manager, Application Developer - Full Stack Application DevelopmentSenior Manager

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.; Florida; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) match

Education assistance

Parental leave

Paid time off

Company-paid holidays

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager of Full-Stack Application Development to lead design, delivery, and support of enterprise apps on Palantir Foundry. You will guide architecture, mentoring, and hands-on development to drive scalable, data-driven solutions for enterprise users.

The role emphasizes leadership, development standards, UI/UX excellence, and collaboration with IT and business stakeholders to modernize operations and analytics capabilities across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required with 9+ years of related experience; graduate degree with 7+ years acceptable.
• Hands-on experience building enterprise apps in Palantir Foundry (Workshop, UI Components, Ontology Views, Code Repositories).
• Strong full-stack skills in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated ability to design user-centric UI/UX, responsive interfaces, and usability best practices.
• Proven mentoring and leadership of development teams; experience in architecture and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and manage a team of full-stack developers delivering enterprise applications on Palantir Foundry.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership: architectural guidance, design reviews, and complex problem solving.
• Set technical direction, development standards, and secure, maintainable architectures.
• Oversee design, development, testing, deployment, and lifecycle management of user-facing apps, dashboards, APIs, and data pipelines.
• Promote UI/UX standards and partner with stakeholders to improve usability and adoption.
• Plan, prioritize, and drive application development aligned with business priorities and delivery commitments.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Data Architecture, and IT leadership to define requirements for scalable data-driven solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement of development processes, software engineering practices, and operational efficiency.
• Lead root-cause analysis for cross-functional platform issues and ensure enterprise security/governance standards.
• Manage staffing, performance, career development, hiring, and resource planning; foster a high-performing culture.
• Communicate strategy, status, risks, and performance to executives.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.

Skills

Full-stack development

People leadership

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

UI/UX

Palantir Foundry

APIs

React patterns

SDLC

Agile/DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Graduate Degree

Tools

Palantir Foundry

REST APIs

SAP

Oracle EBS

Snowflake Cortex

Job description

Senior Manager, Application Developer - Full Stack Application Development

Job Code: 45639

Remote Opportunity

The LHX Transformation team is seeking a Full-Stack Application Development Sr. Manager to lead the design, development, delivery, and operational support of enterprise applications within the Palantir Foundry platform. This role provides both technical and people leadership for a team of application developers responsible for building user-facing applications, workflow-driven tools, and operational solutions that integrate data, business logic, and ontology-driven systems into intuitive, scalable experiences for enterprise users. In addition to leading the team, the manager is expected to serve as a hands‑on technical leader by providing architectural guidance, mentoring developers, resolving complex technical challenges, and contributing directly to solution design and development as needed to support delivery priorities.

This position plays a key leadership role in supporting LHX Transformation by driving digital workflow optimization, operational automation, and enterprise-wide decision support. The selected individual will establish technical direction, development standards, and operational plans while partnering with business and IT leaders to deliver scalable, high-quality applications that integrate backend logic, data pipelines, APIs, and ontology objects to modernize business operations across L3Harris.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in full-stack application development, UI/UX design principles, and modern data platforms with proven experience leading technical teams, developing talent, and translating business priorities into intuitive, scalable, user‑centered solutions. This individual is passionate about delivering high‑quality user experiences and establishing development standards that balance usability, performance, maintainability, and business value.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, develop, and manage a team of full-stack application developers responsible for delivering enterprise applications within the Palantir Foundry platform.
• Serve as a hands‑on technical leader by providing architectural guidance, mentoring developers, reviewing solution designs, resolving complex technical challenges, and contributing directly to application development when needed to support delivery priorities.
• Establish technical direction, development standards, coding practices, and application architecture to ensure scalable, secure, maintainable, and high-quality solutions.
• Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and lifecycle management of user-facing applications, workflows, dashboards, APIs, data pipelines, and ontology-driven solutions.
• Establish and promote UI/UX design standards and best practices, ensuring applications provide intuitive, accessible, and consistent user experiences while partnering with business stakeholders to continuously improve usability and adoption.
• Lead the planning, prioritization, and execution of application development activities, ensuring alignment with business priorities, operational plans, and delivery commitments.
• Partner with business stakeholders, Product Owners, Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, and IT leadership to define requirements and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement of development processes, software engineering practices, application performance, and operational efficiency.
• Lead technical problem solving, root cause analysis, and resolution of complex application, data integration, and platform issues spanning multiple business functions.
• Ensure solutions adhere to enterprise standards for security, governance, usability, performance, and reliability.
• Manage team staffing, performance, coaching, career development, hiring, and resource planning while fostering a collaborative, customer-focused, and high-performing team culture.
• Communicate technical strategy, project status, delivery risks, and operational performance to leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain application standards, technical documentation, operational procedures, and development best practices while supporting the ongoing evolution of enterprise application and analytics capabilities.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum 7 years of prior related experience. Previous experience leading software development or application development teams.
• Hands‑on experience developing enterprise applications in Palantir Foundry (Workshop, UI Components, Ontology Views, Code Repositories).
• Strong experience with full‑stack development using Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or comparable programming languages.
• Experience leading the design and development of user‑centric applications with a strong understanding of UI/UX principles, responsive interface design, and usability best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor development teams on application architecture, front‑end design patterns, and user experience best practices.
• Experience leading application architecture, API integration, backend services, and enterprise application design.
• Experience with data integration, ETL processes, data modeling, relational and cloud‑based data platforms, and modern analytics architectures.
• Experience leading software development lifecycle (SDLC), Agile delivery, testing, release management, and production support activities.
• Demonstrated experience establishing technical standards, development processes, and operational best practices.
• Excellent communication, leadership, coaching, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Familiarity with React‑style component patterns or comparable front‑end frameworks.
• Experience with ontology modeling and object‑driven application logic.
• Experience with Python for backend automation or processing.
• Knowledge of enterprise data systems (SAP, Oracle EBS, Costpoint, REST APIs).
• Experience with AI tools such as OpenAI, Palantir AIP, Snowflake Cortex, or similar.
• Experience leading application development teams within Palantir Foundry.
• Experience with enterprise application architecture and ontology‑driven solution design.
• Experience implementing Agile software development methodologies and DevOps practices.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent development initiatives and cross‑functional delivery teams.
• Experience supporting enterprise digital transformation, data modernization, or analytics platform implementations.

Benefits

• L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays.