Manager, Application Developer (Full‑Stack Palantir Foundry Application Specialist)

About L3Harris

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

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Job Details

• Job Title: Manager, Application Developer (Full‑Stack Palantir Foundry Application Specialist)
• Job Code: 41600
• Job Location: Melbourne, FL (On Site)
• Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description

The LHX Transformation team is seeking a Full-Stack Application Development Manager to lead the design, development, delivery, and operational support of enterprise applications within the Palantir Foundry platform. This role provides both technical and people leadership for a team of application developers responsible for building user-facing applications, workflow-driven tools, and operational solutions that integrate data, business logic, and ontology-driven systems into intuitive, scalable experiences for enterprise users. In addition to leading the team, the manager is expected to serve as a hands-on technical leader by providing architectural guidance, mentoring developers, resolving complex technical challenges, and contributing directly to solution design and development as needed to support delivery priorities.

This position plays a key leadership role in supporting LHX Transformation by driving digital workflow optimization, operational automation, and enterprise-wide decision support. The selected individual will establish technical direction, development standards, and operational plans while partnering with business and IT leaders to deliver scalable, high-quality applications that integrate backend logic, data pipelines, APIs, and ontology objects to modernize business operations across L3Harris.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in full-stack application development, UI/UX design principles, and modern data platforms with proven experience leading technical teams, developing talent, and translating business priorities into intuitive, scalable, user-centered solutions. This individual is passionate about delivering high-quality user experiences and establishing development standards that balance usability, performance, maintainability, and business value.

Essential Functions:

• Lead, coach, develop, and manage a team of full-stack application developers responsible for delivering enterprise applications within the Palantir Foundry platform.
• Serve as a hands-on technical leader by providing architectural guidance, mentoring developers, reviewing solution designs, resolving complex technical challenges, and contributing directly to application development when needed to support delivery priorities.
• Establish technical direction, development standards, coding practices, and application architecture to ensure scalable, secure, maintainable, and high-quality solutions.
• Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and lifecycle management of user-facing applications, workflows, dashboards, APIs, data pipelines, and ontology-driven solutions.
• Establish and promote UI/UX design standards and best practices, ensuring applications provide intuitive, accessible, and consistent user experiences while partnering with business stakeholders to continuously improve usability and adoption.
• Lead the planning, prioritization, and execution of application development activities, ensuring alignment with business priorities, operational plans, and delivery commitments.
• Partner with business stakeholders, Product Owners, Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, and IT leadership to define requirements and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement of development processes, software engineering practices, application performance, and operational efficiency.
• Lead technical problem solving, root cause analysis, and resolution of complex application, data integration, and platform issues spanning multiple business functions.
• Ensure solutions adhere to enterprise standards for security, governance, usability, performance, and reliability.
• Manage team staffing, performance, coaching, career development, hiring, and resource planning while fostering a collaborative, customer-focused, and high-performing team culture
• Communicate technical strategy, project status, delivery risks, and operational performance to leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain application standards, technical documentation, operational procedures, and development best practices while supporting the ongoing evolution of enterprise application and analytics capabilities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills: