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 leveraging cutting edge technology to solve business problems at American Airlines by participating in all phases of the development process from inception through transition, advocating the agile process and test-driven development, using object-oriented development tools to analyze, model, design, construct and test reusable objects, and making the codebase a better place to live and work.
   

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.
• 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.
• Assists with software vendor POC product evaluations and recommendations, and design and manage development of the technical solution.
• Applies appropriate technology to reduce costs and/or improve productivity resulting in value to the company.
• Maintains an effective approach on problem solving, multi-tasking, coordinating, and scheduling in accordance with stated goals to ensure visibility and predictability.
• Consistently demonstrates a positive, professional, leadership attitude and frame of mind when working with and communicating with others

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 full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Airline Industry experience, including Native Sabre

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Experience in Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Cloudbees, Nexus, TDD, Automated regression testing)
• Experience with Microservices, HW/SW Resource Management, and Cloud Framework implementation
• Experience in Service optimizations for improved performance.
• Experience in Disaster Recovery Planning and Other Resiliency Efforts
• Ability to dissect large and complex deliverables, into manageable bodies of work that can be delivered iteratively
• Demonstrated experience in helping to lead high visibility project with a well-rounded technical background in Airline Operations and/or Crew Management Technologies
• Hands-on experience in Azure PaaS, AKS, Data platform, Automation, Observability & Resiliency practice. 
• Proven ability to build strong and sustainable relationships with both Internal and External Stakeholders
• Certification/deep knowledge in NoSQL(MongoDB) and Machine Learning
• Java, Angular, and/or IOS Experience
• Microsoft Power Apps experience preferable

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.