Principal Programmer/Technical Lead, IT Applications

Location: DFW Headquarters Building 8 (DFW-SV08)   
Additional Locations: None
Requisition ID: 70832 

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 Information Technology Division.
• 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 data frameworks and management (e.g. SQL/non-SQL, In-memory Cache, SSD); cloud frameworks, content delivery network design, web services design, rules engine design, and software optimization techniques.

What you'll do

  

• Works with product  leadership, architect,  systems analysts, developers, and testers to define strategy and requirements
• Develops and drives high-level strategic initiatives and secures commitment from external and internal teams for new initiatives
• 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, and ensures adherence to technology platform decisions

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
• 10 years TPF development environment 
• 5 years technical leadership of TPF developers
• 3 years Java-based system design experience
• 3 years of Azure cloud experience

 

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
• 5 years of experience implementing Crew Compensation contract provisions
• 3 years technical leadership of IT personnel
• Airline experience

 

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• ITIL certification
• Experience in Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Cloudbees, Nexus, TDD, Automated regression testing)
• Experience with hw/sw resource management, cloud framework implementation, micro-services, and Apache frameworks
• Experience in service optimizations for performance
• 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
• Experience with TPF, MongoDB, Rules Engines, Java, Springboot, and Azure
• Proven ability to build strong and sustainable relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience in systems development in a variety of computing architectures and environments; proven experience with conceptual strategy and direction
• Proficient in Agile and SDLC methodologies
• Significant experience in requirements analysis and use case development, with a thorough understanding of software development life cycles, development, and technology tools, testing methodologies, and requirements gathering
• Passion for change and continual improvement with ability to effectively lead, drive, and support change.
• Proven ability to work across multiple functional teams in the creation of business solutions.
• Experience with the operations characteristics of large scale and highly available computer systems deployed in a variety of software and hardware environments.
• Ability to simultaneously manage a large workload involving multiple projects, day-to-day tasks