General Dynamics

Sr Advanced Applications Developer Specialist

General Dynamics • $132K — $143K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in IT, Engineering, or related field with 8 years of experience; or Master's degree with 6 years of related experience.
  • Certified application developer preferred for advanced application development knowledge.
  • Advanced experience in application development including design, testing, and modernization.
  • Strong skills in Python for building secure APIs and integrations.
  • Experience in collaborating with architects for scalable application designs.
  • Background in AI, machine learning, or large language models in production environments.
  • Ability to solve complex, high-visibility problems and provide technical leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Define platform strategy and delivery roadmap aligned with enterprise architecture.
  • Collaborate with experts to develop prototypes and refine them into secure applications.
  • Develop, test, and improve Python services and APIs for the shared platform.
  • Assess the safety and readiness of applications for deployment based on architectural standards.
  • Monitor platform health, troubleshoot issues, and manage operational procedures.
  • Create reusable development patterns and documentation for developers.
  • Communicate technical choices and value effectively to varied audiences.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape the future of an enterprise platform.
  • Engagement with a multi-disciplinary team of experts.
  • A role that encompasses strategy, development, and continuous improvement.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and innovation.
  • Potential for a significant impact on platform usability and performance.
Full Job Description
Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering and/or related field or equivalent relevant experience, plus 8 years of related experience; or Master's degree plus 6 years of related experience. Certified application developer indicating an advanced or expert degree of application development knowledge is strongly preferred.

 

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

Responsibilities for this Position

Turn the Enterprise Growth AI Platform vision into a secure, reliable enterprise capability. You will partner with Growth community subject-matter experts to develop prototypes and refine selected concepts into enterprise-scale applications. You will shape the technical roadmap, work with designated architects to define solutions that align with enterprise architecture, build and operate the shared platform, and guide safe deployment. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role for someone who can move from strategy to production code and communicate clearly with engineers, business partners, and senior executives.

 

Responsibilities for this Position

What You'll Own:

  • Platform strategy and delivery. Translate the Growth Platform vision into a sequenced roadmap, investment options, measurable outcomes, and delivery plans, working with designated enterprise and solution architects to define the target architecture.
  • Community prototyping and maturation. Work with Growth subject-matter experts to clarify business problems, develop and evaluate prototypes, and refine selected concepts into secure, supportable, enterprise-scale applications.
  • AI-Driven Platform and application development. Build, test, deploy, document, and improve shared Python services, APIs, data and AI capabilities, developer tooling, and selected enterprise applications.
  • Safe application onboarding. Assess applications developed by others against architectural patterns defined with architects and requirements for integration, dependencies, identity, security, data, reliability, observability, and support readiness before deployment.
  • Platform operations. Monitor health, troubleshoot incidents, maintain operational procedures, manage technical debt and lifecycle needs, and improve the platform as demand grows.
  • Technical standards and enablement. Create reusable patterns, reference implementations, automated delivery controls, and guidance that help other developers build and integrate applications effectively.
  • Technical influence and storytelling. Explain choices, tradeoffs, risks, value, and progress in a way that enables decisions across technical, business, and executive audiences.

What You Won't Own:

  • Every prototype-to-production effort. The Growth community originates ideas, subject-matter experts remain essential through discovery and validation, and multiple team members continue to develop and mature applications that will live on the Growth Platform.
  • Enterprise architecture ownership. You will contribute platform and application expertise and work with designated architects; architecture governance, standards ownership, and formal architectural approval remain with those roles.
  • The primary relationship with Enterprise AI, IT, cybersecurity, or other enterprise organizations. You will provide technical analysis, support & recommendations as the technical lead; the Manager, Growth Systems & Analytics remains the primary interface.
  • Unilateral deployment approval. You will make technical-readiness recommendations within the team's governance and prioritization process.

What Makes This Role Different:

  • You will help determine what the platform should become and turn that vision into measurable capability.
  • You will work across strategy, prototyping, architecture collaboration, development, deployment, operations, and continuous improvement - not just implementation.
  • You will build selected applications directly while making the shared platform safer and easier for other developers to use.
  • Innovation is distributed: you will help subject-matter experts develop and evaluate prototypes, work with architects on enterprise alignment, and help the team refine selected concepts into deployable applications.
  • You will join a high-performing team whose members combine technical depth, business judgment, collaboration, and executive-ready communication.

Required Qualifications:

  • Advanced application-development experience across design, development, testing, deployment, administration, support, and modernization.
  • Strong Python development skills and experience building secure APIs and integrations with enterprise systems, data, identity, and infrastructure.
  • Experience partnering with subject-matter experts to frame problems, translate outcomes into requirements, develop prototypes, incorporate feedback, and mature solutions for enterprise use.
  • Experience collaborating with enterprise or solution architects to turn requirements and technical constraints into scalable, compliant application designs.
  • Experience with automated functional and nonfunctional testing, peer review, CI/CD, security scanning, dependency management, observability, and DevSecOps practices.
  • Demonstrated experience applying AI, machine learning, or large language models in production-oriented applications.
  • Advanced problem-solving ability for ambiguous, cross-domain, high-visibility work, including converting uncertainty into options, risks, and mitigation actions.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership through judgment, delivery, mentoring, and influence.
  • Strong written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills across technical, business, and executive audiences.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience managing the lifecycle of an enterprise platform, shared service layer, or integrated application portfolio.
  • Experience delivering business applications from prototype through enterprise deployment, operations, and modernization.
  • Experience with LLM APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, knowledge services, data pipelines, and model evaluation.
  • Experience with containers, automated delivery, configuration management, monitoring, capacity planning, backup, and recovery.
  • Experience influencing technical standards and organizational change.

What Sets You Apart

  • You can see the destination and build the next practical increment. Strategy and execution are part of the same job for you.
  • You can draw out subject-matter expertise, turn it into a useful prototype and carry it through production deployment and improvement.
  • You communicate with range, preserving technical accuracy while making value, risk, decisions, and progress clear to senior leaders.
  • You influence change by creating clarity, building trust, demonstrating what works, and helping peers succeed.
  • You balance capability with reliability, security, traceability, maintainability, and user outcomes.

 

 

Salary NoteThis estimate represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors (geographic location, etc.). Actual pay may vary. This job posting will remain open until the position is filled. Combined Salary RangeUSD $132,930.00 - USD $143,835.00 /Yr.

About General Dynamics

General Dynamics is involved in business aviation; land and expeditionary combat vehicles and systems, armaments, and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and mission-critical information systems and technologies. General Dynamics has four main business segments. Aerospace designs, develops, manufacturers and services a comprehensive offering of advanced business-jet aircraft. Combat Systems specializes in producing, supporting and sustaining land and expeditionary combat systems for the U.S. military and its allies. Marine Systems designs, builds and supports submarines and a variety of surface ships for the U.S. Navy and commercial customers. The Information Systems and Technology group offers a breadth and depth of technology and service capabilities that support a wide range of government and commercial needs, including systems integration expertise; hardware and software products; and engineering, management and support services.

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103,100 employees
Market Cap
$67.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
$3.1 billion
Founded
1952
5 Year Trend
+4.7%
Revenue
$37.9 billion
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