Technical Lead, IT Applications

Location: DFW Headquarters Building 8 (DFW-SV08)   
Additional Locations: None
Requisition ID: 71343 

Intro

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Why you'll love this job

• ​This job is a member of the Information Technology Team within the Data Engineering and Analytics division, supporting the Data Privacy and Governance product
• Responsible for providing technical leadership for assigned IT development personnel and be responsible for the technical design and implementation of mid-range software development of the assigned web services and/or applications.
• Key aspects which will differentiate this role are: possessing working knowledge of latest industry best practices and trends within web applications, data engineering, data management, and privacy engineering (e.g. SQL/non-SQL, In-memory Cache, APIs, Micro services); cloud frameworks, content delivery network design, web services design, rules engine design, software optimization techniques, privacy enhancing frameworks and technologies, information security.

What you'll do

• Works with product management, business analysts, developers, testers and architectural teams to define strategy and requirements
• Develops and drives high-level strategic initiatives and secures commitment from external and internal teams for new initiatives
• Creates, designs, and documents visions, standards, policies, patterns, architectures, and align roadmaps for web applications and privacy preserving technologies (systems/database administration, systems and network/cloud architecture, security administration, solutions development, data and technical engineering)
• Designs trust into the applications and data sources that collect, store, process and transmit Personal Information to third parties
• Drives consensus on technical approach, sets timelines, and leads cross-functional application teams from design through delivery
• Applies software engineering best industry practices to web applications and services
• Provides technical guidance, direction, and decisions to team developing custom and off-the-shelf web applications and services
• Works with Application/Enterprise Architects to establish development and deployment standards aligned with privacy policies, and ensures adherence to technology platform decisions
• Build standards and best practices for teams across the Enterprise to adopt/adhere to Privacy Frameworks
• Evangelize, collaborate, and implement frameworks across enterprise to promote Privacy by Design (PbD)
   

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 5 years of Java Development Environment (JDE) experience
• 2 years Application Programming Interface (API) framework / REST development
• 2 years in web services (mid-range) development
• 2 years in SQL, data engineering/management

 

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 3 years technical leadership of IT personnel

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Experience in Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration (e.g., Github, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, Selenium)
• Experience with hardware/software resource management, cloud framework implementation, micro-services, and Apache frameworks (e.g., Java, Springboot, Python, Spark)
• Experience in service optimizations for performance and troubleshooting errors for issue identification and resolution
• Ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional specifications, to be delivered in a successful and timely manner
• Demonstrated experience leading large scale projects, and well-rounded technical background in current data management technologies
• Demonstrated capability of mastering new technologies, and be able to quickly provide guidance and architecture standards on new platforms and initiatives to internal and external application te