Application Development Team Manager

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Application Development Team Manager based in the United States. The Application Development Team Manager will lead distributed software engineering teams responsible for delivering, modernizing, and maintaining secure, scalable applications across legacy and cloud-native environments. This leadership role combines technical expertise, agile delivery management, and people development to ensure projects meet quality, schedule, budget, and contractual objectives. You will oversee the full software development lifecycle while driving DevSecOps practices, CI/CD automation, and cloud operations across technologies such as Java, React, Python, AWS, and Kubernetes. A key focus will be enabling responsible AI-assisted software development to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery efficiency. Working closely with architects, product owners, security specialists, customers, and infrastructure teams, you will foster collaboration and ensure alignment with mission-critical requirements. This fully remote opportunity offers the chance to shape technology modernization initiatives, mentor engineering talent, and deliver innovative digital solutions supporting important public-sector programs.

Development Team Leadership: Lead and support geographically distributed software development teams working across legacy applications, modernized systems, and cloud-native platforms. Establish clear priorities, coordinate workstreams, and promote consistent engineering practices. Project and Delivery Management: Oversee project planning, scheduling, resource allocation, risk management, and delivery execution to ensure commitments are met within agreed scope, timelines, budgets, and contractual requirements. Agile and Scrum Execution: Facilitate agile ceremonies, manage product and team backlogs, lead sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, and coordinate release planning and tracking using tools such as Jira and Confluence. Engineering Standards and Quality: Establish and maintain standards for coding, architecture, testing, documentation, and code reviews to improve application maintainability, reliability, security, and performance. DevSecOps and CI/CD: Drive the implementation of secure development practices, automated testing, continuous integration and delivery, infrastructure as code, and quality controls across AWS, Kubernetes, and relevant application environments. AI-Assisted Software Development: Enable teams to use AI-powered tools for solution design, coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and troubleshooting. Promote responsible agentic workflows and human-AI collaboration to improve productivity and delivery quality. AI Governance and Security: Establish guardrails for AI-generated outputs, including human oversight, validation, traceability, and accountability. Ensure sensitive information, privacy, and security requirements are protected throughout AI-assisted development. Compliance and Release Management: Apply relevant security, compliance, and contractual requirements throughout the development lifecycle. Ensure structured code reviews, peer reviews, and release validation are completed before production deployment. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with customers, product owners, architects, infrastructure specialists, and security teams to communicate project progress, technical decisions, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders. Modernization and Continuous Improvement: Use delivery metrics, quality indicators, and cycle-time analysis to evaluate performance and improve development processes. Lead initiatives involving legacy system transformation, cloud migration, scalability, and operational resilience. People Management and Mentoring: Coach developers and technical professionals, support AI-related upskilling, provide constructive feedback, conduct performance reviews, and encourage continuous learning and career development. Workload and Performance Management: Set clear objectives, prioritize assignments, balance capacity across teams, address performance concerns fairly, and recognize individual and collective achievements. Team Culture and Talent Development: Build an inclusive, collaborative, and high-trust remote working environment. Contribute to recruitment, onboarding, retention, and succession planning to ensure the team has the capabilities required for ongoing modernization and delivery. Requirements A bachelor's degree and at least five years of documented management or leadership experience in areas such as product management, project management, software development management, or team leadership. At least five years of experience across the software development lifecycle, including agile software delivery. Proven experience leading senior developers or multidisciplinary application development teams, preferably in geographically distributed or remote environments. Strong organizational, prioritization, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities. Hands-on experience with modern application development technologies, including Java, Spring, Hibernate, SQL, React, Python, AWS cloud services, Kubernetes, and associated integration patterns. Experience using AI-assisted development tools across the software lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, code review, documentation, debugging, and troubleshooting. Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, cloud-native architectures, APIs, containers, automated testing, and secure software engineering practices. Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain technical architecture, project status, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to both technical and nontechnical audiences. Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and motivate technical teams while fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Required certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate. Preferred certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Certified SAFe Agilist, SAFe Practice Consultant, or AWS Certified AI Practitioner. Additional preferred experience: Familiarity with refugee and immigrant populations and related social programs, knowledge of federal procurement and acquisition processes, or experience working as a consultant or contractor supporting federal government initiatives. Modernization expertise: Experience with legacy system transformation, cloud migration, organizational change initiatives, or large-scale technology modernization programs. Citizenship and background requirements: US citizenship is required, and candidates must be able to successfully complete a Public Trust background investigation. Work arrangement: Ability to work remotely from within the United States and fulfill a standard 40-hour workweek. No travel is required for this position. Benefits Competitive annual salary: Estimated salary range of $147,050 to $198,950 , depending on experience, geographic location, and applicable contractual requirements. Actual compensation may fall outside this range. Medical coverage: A variety of medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). Dental and vision insurance: Access to dental and vision coverage options. Retirement savings: A 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching contributions and the ability to make eligible pre-tax and post-tax contributions. Paid time off: New employees typically receive 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for vacation, personal matters, and illness, prorated based on the hire date. Paid holidays: Ten paid holidays per year, subject to applicable policies and eligibility. Comprehensive leave programs: Access to sick, personal, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave, as well as paid parental leave. Paid family leave: Eligible employees may receive up to 160 hours of paid family leave within a rolling 12-month period. Income protection: Short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, personal accident insurance, critical illness coverage, and business travel and accident insurance. Remote work flexibility: A fully remote working arrangement with opportunities for flexible workweeks where operational requirements permit. Professional development: Opportunities to strengthen leadership capabilities, develop expertise in AI-assisted engineering, and work with modern cloud, cybersecurity, and software development technologies. Career growth: The opportunity to lead distributed teams, influence technical strategy, and contribute to significant modernization and digital transformation initiatives. Collaborative culture: An environment that values innovation, continuous learning, inclusive leadership, and the delivery of meaningful technology solutions.