Software Engineering Manager C# & Oracle Development

General Dynamics IT; Fort Belvoir (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth opportunities via AI careerPath

Internal mobility support

Benefits & 401K with company match

Military‑friendly culture

Job summary

General Dynamics IT is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team of C#/NET developers and oversee Oracle database solutions for mission‑critical enterprise applications.

You will drive technical direction, ensure secure and scalable delivery, and partner with product, architecture, and security teams to modernize and sustain complex systems.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of software‑development experience with C#, .NET, and enterprise apps.
• Five+ years Oracle SQL/PL/SQL development including performance tuning.
• Three–four years of technical lead or engineering management experience.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and Agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of ~7 C#/ .NET developers.
• Provide architectural oversight for enterprise app development and modernization.
• Design scalable, secure solutions using C#, .NET, Oracle SQL/PL/SQL.
• Oversee SDLC execution from requirements to deployment and sustainment.
• Collaborate with product owners, DBAs, architects, QA, and cybersecurity teams.
• Enforce engineering best practices including code reviews and automated testing.

Skills

C#

NET

Oracle SQL

PL/SQL

ASP.NET Core

Web APIs

CI/CD

Microservices

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Git

Job description

Software Engineering Manager – for C# and Oracle Development

The Software Engineering Manager leads a team of C#/.NET developers supporting complex, mission‑critical enterprise applications. This position combines hands‑on technical leadership with people management, delivery accountability, software architecture, and database engineering oversight. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring secure, scalable, maintainable, and high‑performing application and Oracle database solutions are delivered in alignment with program priorities, technical standards, and customer requirements.The Software Engineering Manager provides leadership across the full software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis and architecture through development, testing, deployment, sustainment, and modernization. The position works closely with product owners, business analysts, database administrators, enterprise architects, quality assurance personnel, cybersecurity teams, and Government stakeholders to deliver reliable solutions and continuously improve development practices.

What you will do

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, develop, and retain a high‑performing team of approximately seven C#/.NET developers.
• Provide technical direction and architectural oversight for enterprise application development, integration, modernization, and sustainment efforts.
• Design and deliver scalable, secure, high‑performance solutions using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Oracle SQL, and PL/SQL.
• Maintain technical oversight of application, service, data‑access, and database layers to ensure solution quality, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Own software development lifecycle execution, including requirements analysis, design, development, code review, testing, release planning, deployment, sustainment, and defect resolution.
• Establish development priorities, assign work, manage technical dependencies, monitor delivery progress, and communicate status, risks, and resource needs to program leadership and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product owners, enterprise architects, Database Administrators, quality assurance personnel, and business stakeholders to define technical solutions, delivery roadmaps, release plans, and modernization strategies.
• Enforce engineering best practices, including peer review, secure coding, static and dynamic code analysis, automated testing, CI/CD, source control, configuration management, documentation, and release governance.
• Lead Oracle database development activities, including data modeling, SQL and PL/SQL development, stored procedures, packages, views, indexing strategies, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Drive continuous improvement in application architecture, database design, code quality, automated testing, development tooling, documentation, and team delivery practices.
• Ensure solutions meet applicable cybersecurity, configuration‑management, software assurance, accessibility, performance, and operational‑support requirements.
• Support technical reviews, design reviews, change‑control activities, release readiness reviews, audits, assessments, and corrective‑action planning.
• Conduct regular one‑on‑one meetings, performance evaluations, technical coaching, career‑development discussions, and succession planning for assigned personnel.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex application, integration, database, performance, and production‑support issues.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Directly supervise assigned software developers and provide technical direction to supporting development, database, quality assurance, and configuration‑management personnel as required.
• Establish team goals, performance expectations, workload priorities, training plans, and professional‑development objectives.
• Promote a collaborative, accountable, customer‑focused engineering culture that emphasizes quality, security, innovation, and continuous improvement.
  

What you’ll need to succeed

Bring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The Software Engineering Manager must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or a related technical discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Eight or more years of professional software‑development experience with a strong focus on C#, .NET, and enterprise application development.
• Five or more years of hands‑on Oracle SQL and PL/SQL development experience, including complex query optimization, stored procedures, packages, functions, types, database design, and performance tuning.
• Three to four years of technical‑lead, team‑lead, or engineering‑management experience leading teams of approximately five to ten developers.
• Strong experience with modern .NET technologies, including C#, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, Web APIs, service‑oriented architecture, and microservices.
• Demonstrated experience with Oracle database development, relational data modeling, indexing strategies, execution‑plan analysis, data‑access design, and application/database performance optimization.
• Experience implementing or supporting CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, source control, code‑quality tools, release management, and Agile development practices.
• Proven ability to balance hands‑on technical contribution with people leadership, stakeholder engagement, delivery management, and strategic planning.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical issues, risks, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Required clearance: Secret clearance is required.

What GDIT can offer

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI‑powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Community: Award‑winning culture of innovation and a military‑friendly workplace

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