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 Crew Readiness IT within the Information Technology Division.
• Responsible for providing technical leadership and mentorship for assigned IT development personnel. Responsible for the technical design, implementation, and support of full-stack applications hosted in an enterprise-managed Kubernetes environment.
• Key qualifications which will differentiate strong candidates for this role are working knowledge of latest industry best practices within data frameworks and management (e.g., SQL/NoSQL), cloud frameworks, web services design, rules engine design, and software optimization techniques.
   

What you’ll do

• Collaborates closely with engineering managers, product management, developers, testers and other architectural teams to understand requirements and define implementation strategy 
• Develops and drives high-level technical initiatives and collaboratively secures commitment from external and internal teams for new initiatives
• Leads inclusively to drive consensus on technical approach, sets timelines, and leads cross-functional application teams from design through delivery
• Applies software engineering best industry practices to development of web applications and services and encourages compliance with these practices through hands-on leadership of engineers who write code
• Provides technical guidance and direction to team developing custom web applications and services
• Works with Application/Enterprise Architects to establish development and deployment standards, building relationships and discussing shared problems and frameworks to solve them, 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
• 5+ years of .NET (preferred) or Java Development Environment (JDE) experience
• 5+ years of REST Application Programming Interface (API) framework and web services development
• 5+ years of front-end development experience with a modern JavaScript framework (Angular preferred)

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• 3 years technical leadership of IT personnel
• Airline experience in the Crew IT domain 

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Demonstrated experience leading large scale projects with cross-functional stakeholder
• Experience in /Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (e.g. ADO or GitHub Actions pipelines, TDD, automated regression testing)
• Experience with hw/sw resource management, cloud framework implementation, micro-services
• Experience in service optimization for performance
• Ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces and develop functional specifications 
• Well-rounded technical background in current data management technologies

What you’ll get

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer: 

• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more. 
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more

Feel free to be yourself at American

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.

Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.