Senior Principal Engineer

Position Summary

The Senior Principal Engineer is responsible for devising, planning, and implementing engineering strategies for JetBlue, as well as implementing systems architecture that impact the critical technical directions of the organization. This role is a pivotal and highly strategic position centered on our highest-risk and operational impactful undertakings.

As JetBlue develops its future state architectures and platforms, this role will be a primary strategic contributor for our Technology Vision & Strategy and will evaluate opportunities for revenue impacts through systems availability, performance, and operational support.

Essential Responsibilities

• • Provides meaningful impacts to revenue and customer experience through the technical development of the staff and our systems architecture.
  • Provides immense thought leadership and collaboration into the broader JetBlue organization through empirical analysis.
  • Offer thought leadership to the broader industry through their successful implementations and design efforts.
  • Define problems autonomously and proactively own complex features and distributed designs.
  • Presents complex distributed designs across the organization including interactivity with components/services across teams to ensure they align to our systems architecture strategies.
  • Develops designs and technical roadmaps that influence long-term strategic implementations across teams.
  • Exudes extreme curiosity to explore customer experiences, obsessively finding opportunities for our customers to experience technology ‘that just works all the time’.
  • Drives a technology normalization strategy, addressing technology drift across our broader technology organization.
  • Develop, design, implement, and operationally support large scale digital experiences as well as cloud native experiences using mainstream cloud providers.
  • Design, write, and implement platform automation that can be utilized both as continuous integration (CI)/continuous deployment (CD) input and production synthetic transactions.
  • Provide input and guidance on development and architecture decisions, acting as a key mentor with other engineers.
  • Taking a customer first approach, evaluate new technologies and determine viability per solution.
  • Analyze requirements and solution architecture and provide task specific estimates.
  • Mentor engineers with regards to coding practices and design decisions.
  • Participate in code reviews to ensure high quality and consistent coding practices.
  • Participate in scrum team ceremonies in agile methodology, sprint planning, and backlog grooming.
  • Collaborate closely with other product development and IT teams globally including Product Management, Architecture, DevOps, Quality Assurance (QA), and Infrastructure teams.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Experience and Qualifications

• • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline; OR demonstrated capability to perform job responsibilities with a combination of a High School Diploma/GED and at least four (4) years of previous relevant work experience.
  • Eight (8) years of software engineering expe