Tech Lead Software Engineer

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Job Description:

What if you could help shape the platforms that support Southwest Airlines’ people, payroll, and workforce operations at scale? The Tech Lead Software Engineer supports the Workday Team by serving as the primary technical expert for Workday, leading system design, configuration, and integration efforts while partnering closely with Business, HR, Payroll, and IT stakeholders to deliver reliable and compliant solutions aligned to enterprise needs. They’ll lead and motivate a Team of developers across planning, delivery, and operational support, and balance project Leadership with hands‑on software development and mentoring. Through strong communication and collaboration, the Tech Lead Software Engineer is excited to optimize processes, reduce risk, and help Southwest Airlines maximize its investment in Workday while delivering a scalable and dependable platform for Employees and Leaders. 

Additional Details 

• This role is offered as a remote workplace position, which may require travel for trainings, meetings, conferences, etc. Outside of those required visits, the majority of your working time may be spent in an approved remote location, away from our Corporate Campus. Please note, while this is a remote position, there is limited group of states or localities ineligible for Employees to regularly perform their work off-site. Those ineligible locations are: Alaska, Delaware, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming, and Puerto Rico. 

• U.S. citizenship or current authorization to work in the U.S. required and no current or future work authorization sponsorship available.   

We’re committed to fair hiring practices and to making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristics. 

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate development estimates in support of feasibility assessments and planned development activities

• Create, maintain, review and approve application designs in collaboration with Solution Architects and shared services Teams, ensuring alignment to the appropriate solution architectures and taking tradeoffs into account

• Develop, maintain, and review software with a focus on quality and maintainability

• Develop, maintain, review, and execute unit, functional, and integration tests with a focus on automation and test-driven development

• Provide technical oversight for performance testing, ensuring plan and outcomes align to expected non-functional requirements

• Plan and oversee application deployment activities and sequencing in non-production and production environments

• Investigate new technologies that could improve the applications and development activities

• Identify and resolve technical debt as appropriate, weighing the development effort against the value returned

• Mentor and coach Development Team on relevant architecture, design, development, and operations topics

• Evaluate code to ensure that it is valid, is properly structured, meets industry standards, and is compatible with browsers, devices, or operating systems

• May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders

Knowledge, Skills