The posting
Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret/SCI
Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
Software Engineering
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Collaboration, Design, System Administration
Certifications:
None
Experience:
8 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes
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
#ARMA
The likely salary range for this position is $161,500 - $218,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Travel Required:
Less than 10%
Telecommuting Options:
Hybrid
Work Location:
USA VA Fort Belvoir
Additional Work Locations:
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work:
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
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