General Dynamics Information Technology

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Job Description: • Define and drive the strategic direction for frontend engineering practices, tooling, and skillset across the organization • Lead the development of accessible, performant, and user-centered web applications that serve government customers • Serve as the technical authority and thought leader for frontend architecture and engineering excellence • Design and implement modern frontend architectures, development pipelines, and deployment infrastructure • Deliver new features and improvements to our customer-facing applications with a strong focus on user experience and accessibility compliance (Section 508, WCAG) • Collaborate with product managers to ideate and balance optimal UI/UX experience with implementation effort, making pragmatic trade-offs that deliver value • Build and maintain component libraries, design systems, and shared frontend infrastructure that enable team velocity and consistency • Identify opportunities to modernize our frontend stack and take ownership of technical initiatives that improve developer experience and application quality • Establish and champion frontend best practices including mobile-first development, testing strategies, performance optimization, accessibility standards, and code quality patterns • Mentor and coach engineers at all levels on frontend technologies and establish career development pathways for frontend specialization • Work across the full stack when needed to solve problems end-to-end – backend experience is valuable but frontend is your primary focus Requirements: • 5 + years of related experience • Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C • Proven experience architecting and implementing modern frontend applications at scale using React and/or Angular • Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and deep understanding of web platform APIs • Solid understanding of CSS architecture, mobile-first responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility • Strong understanding of web accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA minimum, Section 508 compliance) • Experience with automated frontend testing strategies including unit testing, component testing, and end-to-end UI testing with tools like Playwright, Cypress, or similar Benefits: • Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and 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. • To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. • GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and 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. • To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. • We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.