Solutions Delivery Systems Developer

Basic Qualifications

Master's degree plus 3 years of related experience. Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering and/or related field or equivalent relevant experience, plus 5 years of related experience; or

Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

Responsibilities for this Position

Responsibilties

• Develop, administer, enhance, and support project portfolio management, business intelligence, and other custom, low-code, commercial, or shared business applications.
• Own application-level configuration, environments, access roles, integrations, scheduled jobs, data flows, releases, and technical support in accordance with enterprise controls.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand desired business outcomes and independently translate requirements into application designs, prototypes, features, and implementation plans.
• Write, review, test, and maintain high-quality application code, scripts, queries, interfaces, and automation using appropriate languages, frameworks, and platform services.
• Design and maintain APIs, database structures, data pipelines, reporting models, and cross-system integrations that provide accurate and traceable information.
• Apply secure development, configuration, identity and access, data-protection, logging, audit, and records-management requirements throughout the application lifecycle.
• Establish and operate disciplined source-control, branching, code-review, testing, deployment, release, rollback, and change-documentation practices.
• Conduct functional, non-functional, unit, integration, regression, security, and user acceptance testing using representative data and documented acceptance criteria.
• Monitor application availability, performance, data quality, integrations, and scheduled processing; troubleshoot incidents, determine root causes, and implement durable corrective actions.
• Maintain application roadmaps, technical backlogs, architecture records, support documentation, recovery procedures, and knowledge needed for reliable continuity.
• Evaluate and reduce technical debt, improve usability and performance, and recommend sustainable platform, architecture, and lifecycle improvements.
• Identify and implement approved AI, large language model, machine learning, and automation capabilities where they improve user outcomes, decision support, or operational efficiency.
• Lead small application projects and technical workstreams, coordinating estimates, dependencies, risks, communications, demonstrations, releases, and stakeholder acceptance.
• Provide technical guidance, user enablement, and concise presentations or reports to business leaders, peers, support teams, and application stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent education and relevant experience, plus 5 years of related experience; or a Master's degree plus 3 years of related experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing, developing, administering, integrating, deploying, and supporting business applications across the full solution lifecycle.
• Proficiency in at least one application-development language or platform, such as Python, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, .NET, or an enterprise low-code platform.
• Familiarity with SQL, relational data concepts, data integration, APIs, scripting, and reporting or analytics solutions.
• Experience with source control, automated or repeatable testing, release management, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Working knowledge of secure software development, role-based access, auditability, data protection, and enterprise change controls.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to act independently on complex tasks and wide-ranging small initiatives.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing or administering portfolio, project, resource, workflow, analytics, dashboard, or management-information applications.
• Experience with Power BI, Microsoft Power Platform, Jira, ServiceNow, GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, or comparable enterprise tools.
• Experience with modern web application architecture, cloud or server-hosted environments, containers, observability, and automated deployment practices.
• Working knowledge of AI, large language models, machine learning, retrieval-augmented generation, or AI-enabled application patterns.
• Experience with Lean-Agile delivery and DevSecOps practices, including Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe.
• Relevant application development, cloud, platform administration, security, ITIL, or project management certifications.

Salary Note

Combined Salary Range

Company Overview

General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operation. With a global team of 12,000+ top professionals, we partner with the best in industry to expand the bounds of innovation in the defense and scientific arenas. Given the nature of our work and who we are, we value trust, honesty, alignment and transparency. We offer highly competitive benefits and pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose. You will also enjoy a flexible work environment where contributions are recognized and rewarded. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high-performance team!

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans