General Dynamics Information Technology Hiring for Technical Project Lead at Atlantic City, New Jersey Full Time

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: NACI (T1)

Job Family: Software Development

At GDIT we build cutting-edge applications that help the end user accomplish their mission.

GDIT is your place. You make it your own. Bring your creativity to help us find simple solutions to complex problems. By owning your opportunity at GDIT, you’ll play an essential part in preparing our nation for the future.

|| THIS POSITION IS CURRENTLY BEING PIPELINED IN PREPARATION FOR THE ANTICIPATED DEMAND FOR CANDIDATES ||

At GDIT, our employees are driven, resourceful, and unwavering. Our work depends on a Technical Project Lead supporting Technical Support Services (TSS) for the United States Postal Service (USPS) activities working remotely. Some travel will be required to USPS site as per project needs.

In this role, a typical day will include: (Primary Responsibilities)

• Drive product management discipline for creating and publishing Java SDKs to support USPS APIs that meet business needs

• Build and run programs that holistically look at the different elements of making SDK services delightful and productive for all kinds of developers and applications

• This role offers the perfect mix of technical plus business and product development

• Partnering with business, technical and architecture engineering counterparts to deliver a unified SDK for USPS API set

• Driving SDK implementation projects that help to enhance and improve developer experience

• Partnering with Developer Advocates, Documentation, UX Research, architecture and software engineering to deliver a delightful developer experience across the breadth of USPS APIs

• Defining and manage the end-to-end developer experience around SDKs for each Azure service

• If you are passionate about building a developer ecosystem, open source, and the cloud, this is the role for you!

• You will work with external partners/developers and other groups to release a world-class mixed reality platform and SDK

• Additional responsibilities include managing external vendor/internal developer team relationships, evaluating technology opportunities, and participating in the overall product development

• Define and prioritize developer scenarios, technical requirements, and product roadmaps

• Manage end-to-end engineering dependencies across internal and external teams

• Coordinate complex software Sprint schedules across multiple teams

• Provide program level leadership to SDK, APIs and application teams

• Set the vision for the team, define and enable key metrics and OKRs, demonstrate management excellence and build strong partnerships

• Applies advanced knowledge in analyzing user/business needs and functionality to plan and design usable API/SDKs to meet those needs

• Applies advanced knowledge and provides guidance for API/SDK updates, refinement, testing, and debugging to meet business needs

• Provides advanced knowledge and guidance on APIs and SDK for optimal documentation and future maintenance and updates

• May serve as a mentor to less experienced developers

• Effectively communicate, influence, and drive results across a demanding agile-driven environment

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Computer Science or related technical discipline

• A minimum of ten (10) years of experience with REST services, JAVA, PL/SQL, KAFKA

• Knowledge/experience with DevSecOps automation, and Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD), Lean, and Agile Scrum/Kanban development techniques, best practices and tools.

• Knowledge/experience of SDLC practices

• Knowledge/experience with End-to-end Agile Lifecycle Management, Test, Build, Deployment, Security and Application Monitoring CI/CD pipeline automation solutions (i.e., Jira, GitLab/GitHub, Selenium, Cucumber, Bamboo, Ant/Maven, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Sonatype Nexus/Checkmarx, New Relic, AppDynamics etc.)

• Change Management and Configuration Management (VersionOne, ServiceNow, etc.)

• Desired experience with Struts, CSS, Html, Unix, Jenkins/EBS

• Experience with cloud-native software architecture frameworks – including Open-Source and Commercial distributions (OCI-compliant containerized microservices, REST API, Kubernetes deployment and orchestration) and Cloud-based services (AWS Lambda, EKS, Azure DevOps, AKS)

• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON and familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Windows applications to back-end services

• Able to design, create and manage reusable API artifacts and service interface specifications (XSD/WSDL/OpenAPI/Swagger/RAML)

• Hands-on tooling experience, including source control, UML, XML, JSON, SOAP, REST, Data mapping

• Excellence in writing and maintaining clear end-user documentation including design requirements, service API specifications, and business data definitions

• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs, particularly in Java (wrappered for .Net)

• Java/J2EE/JEE/.Net(C#) or comparable application architecture, design and development experience

• Development framework and design pattern experience including Model View Controller, React, AngularJS, Node.js, JSON, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, Bootstrap, Responsive UI and/or comparable

• Conversant with “API First” mindset

• Working knowledge in API design and implementation as well as system integration using APIs

• Working knowledge of various aspects of API management including orchestration and policy management, security management, traffic shaping, developer activity management, etc.

• Familiarity with API Management tools such as Apigee, Microsoft Azure, Mashery, etc.

The security clearance for this program requires the selected candidate to have resided in the US for the past five years. The selected candidate cannot have left the country for longer than 90 consecutive days and no more than 180 cumulative days. We can only accept Green Card Holders or US Citizens for this program.

WHAT GDIT CAN OFFER YOU:

• 401K with company match

• Challenging work that makes a real impact on the world around you

• Diverse, highly collaborative teams

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COVID-19 Vaccination: GDIT does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to all employees. To protect the health and safety of its employees and to comply with customer requirements, however, GDIT may require employees in certain positions to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements.

We are GDIT. The people supporting some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We deliver. Bringing the expertise needed to understand and advance critical missions. We transform. Shifting the ways clients invest in, integrate, and innovate technology solutions. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. We are there. On the ground, beside our clients, in the lab, and everywhere in between. Offering the technology transformations, strategy, and mission services needed to get the job done.

GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.