Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. General Dynamics Information Technology is a global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology, and mission services. They are seeking a Senior Engineer Manager to lead a high-performing team of engineers, focusing on people management, team development, and strategic execution to deliver impactful features and improvements.
Responsibilities
- Lead a high-performing team of engineers (employees, internal contractors, and external contractors) to deliver high-impact features and improvements to our core services and systems
- Focus primarily on people management, team development, and strategic execution rather than hands-on coding
- Independently drive execution on projects supporting semi-annual and annual goals, navigating ambiguity and organizational change
- Foster a culture of ownership, excellence, and psychological safety where team members can grow and deliver their best work
- Set clear priorities, goals, and key metrics for your team and hold them accountable for progress while maintaining healthy team dynamics
- Partner effectively across engineering teams and with cross-functional stakeholders (product, design, customer) to deliver business and customer impact
- Build and develop a diverse, high-performing team through strategic hiring, coaching, and creating growth opportunities aligned with individual strengths and career aspirations
- Balance running the business, foundational work, and new initiatives to optimize for sustainable long-term execution
- Identify and address technical risks, system bottlenecks, and process inefficiencies that impact team productivity and outcomes
- Drive informed decision-making by gathering diverse perspectives and balancing customer value with broader business goals
- Champion engineering best practices, including architectural quality, operational excellence, and technical strategy alignment
- Demonstrated track record of leading high-performing engineering teams to deliver significant business and customer impact
- Experience managing mixed workforce models including full-time employees, internal contractors, and external contractors
- Strong people management focus with experience spending the majority of time on coaching, development, and team enablement rather than individual contribution
- Experience managing the full software development lifecycle with a focus on results, quality, and team health
- Proven ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity while maintaining team focus and morale
- Track record of building, hiring, and developing diverse engineering teams across various skill levels
- Experience setting technical direction and making architectural tradeoffs in partnership with senior
- Strong people management skills including coaching, performance management, and conflict resolution across diverse workforce models
- Experience building cohesive, high-performing teams that include a mix of employees and contractors
- Ability to provide quality technical feedback on designs and architectural decisions without being hands-on keyboard
- Understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and modern engineering practices
- Experience establishing efficient processes and operational cadences that drive high team performance
- Skilled at balancing technical excellence with pragmatic delivery of business value
- Comfortable reviewing system health, engineering quality, and technical strategy alignment
- Demonstrated propensity for taking ownership of problems and driving them to resolution
- Ability to communicate with clarity and brevity, tailoring messages to different audiences and stakeholders
- Experience building deep cross-functional relationships and facilitating productive conflict
- Track record of advocating for your team while optimizing for broader organizational outcomes
- Willingness to hold crucial conversations even when uncomfortable, and ability to disagree and commit
- Creates inclusive environments where diverse perspectives are valued and team members feel psychologically safe
- Growth mindset with demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and self-development
- Proven ability to embrace change, introduce new initiatives, and guide teams through organizational transitions
- Demonstrated embrace of AI and automation tools to enhance team productivity and engineering outcomes
- Track record of encouraging experimentation, learning from failures, and driving innovation within teams
- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and ability to focus on the greater purpose to move forward
Skills
- 10 + years of related experience
- Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C
- Strong people management skills including coaching, performance management, and conflict resolution across diverse workforce models
- Experience building cohesive, high-performing teams that include a mix of employees and contractors
- Ability to provide quality technical feedback on designs and architectural decisions without being hands-on keyboard
- Understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and modern engineering practices
- Experience establishing efficient processes and operational cadences that drive high team performance
- Skilled at balancing technical excellence with pragmatic delivery of business value
- Comfortable reviewing system health, engineering quality, and technical strategy alignment
- Demonstrated propensity for taking ownership of problems and driving them to resolution
- Ability to communicate with clarity and brevity, tailoring messages to different audiences and stakeholders
- Experience building deep cross-functional relationships and facilitating productive conflict
- Track record of advocating for your team while optimizing for broader organizational outcomes
- Willingness to hold crucial conversations even when uncomfortable, and ability to disagree and commit
- Creates inclusive environments where diverse perspectives are valued and team members feel psychologically safe
- Growth mindset with demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and self-development
- Proven ability to embrace change, introduce new initiatives, and guide teams through organizational transitions
- Demonstrated embrace of AI and automation tools to enhance team productivity and engineering outcomes
- Track record of encouraging experimentation, learning from failures, and driving innovation within teams
- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and ability to focus on the greater purpose to move forward
Benefits
- Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- A vision plan
- 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
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- A variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
- An additional 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire
- The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
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