Description

　　There’s never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines. We’re on a path towards becoming the best airline in the history of aviation. Our shared purpose – Connecting People, Uniting the World – is about more than getting people from one place to another. It also means that as a global company that operates in hundreds of locations around the world with millions of customers and tens of thousands of employees, we have a unique responsibility to uplift and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live and fly and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. And we’re growing – in the years ahead, we’ll hire tens of thousands of people across every area of the airline. Our careers include a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you happy, healthy and well-traveled. From employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities to world-class benefits like parental leave, 401k and privileges like space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work. Are you ready to travel the world?

　　Key Responsibilities:

　　United’s Technical Operations team is one of the largest Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) organizations in the world. The digital solutions we deliver solve complex challenges to help our operation work more efficiently every day.

　　This Sr. Manager role will play a critical part in our Core MRO System Replacement program – an exciting multi-year effort to modernize and transform our most critical Tech Ops platforms. This Sr. Manager will lead a team of analysts, developers, and other roles to drive overall execution of one or more workstreams. This role will require understanding complex business processes, understanding a highly integrated cloud and on-prem current and future-state distributed architecture, and building an impactful team to perform industry-leading work. This is a role requires an experienced technology leader with a validated history of driving in large-scale initiatives. Solid understanding of application development and integration frameworks and models is required. This position will collaborate extensively with Tech Ops as well as Digital Technology teams.

　　Key responsibilities

　　Lead a multi-functional team of product managers, analysts, developers, architects, testers, and others.

　　Coach, develop, and inspire team members to develop and sustain a strong team.

　　Provide sound technical decision-making and guidance to deliver sustainable, high-quality products.

　　Be a trusted leader with vision with business partners to create impactful products that delight your customers.

　　Define and lead integration strategy and solutions in partnership with key technical leads

　　Lead product evaluation efforts inclusive of functional, performance, scalability, security, and architectural requirements

　　Lead development of proofs-of-concept to support product evaluation and strategic planning

　　Support estimation of project costs through all phases of the project including analysis, development, integration, testing, deployment

　　Responsible for overall product technical quality from unit testing through functional and non-functional testing

　　Responsible for partnering with Tech Ops business through requirements mapping

　　Engage with business partners to develop an understanding of business processes, difficulties, and opportunities

　　Engage with technical collaborators to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, architecture best practices, and key integrations

　　United values diverse experiences, perspectives, and we encourage everyone who meets the minimum qualifications to apply. While having the “desired” qualifications make for a stronger candidate, we encourage applicants who may not feel they check ALL of those boxes! We are always looking for individuals who will bring something new to the table!

　　Qualifications

　　What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

　　Bachelor's degree

　　Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems or other related field

　　7+ years of related work experience

　　3+ years of application development and/or software engineering

　　3+ years of experience working within Agile project management frameworks

　　3+ years of technology leadership experience leading multiple, large, multi-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and essential team members

　　Strong working knowledge of one or more of the following: .Net, Java, or other modern object oriented language(s)

　　Strong working knowledge of Rest API development and microservices development patterns

　　Working knowledge of application integration patterns in a highly-distributed architecture

　　Working knowledge of AWS or Azure platforms

　　Experience defining and implementing complex application architectures

　　Experience with highly-scalable, real-time, or highly regulated applications

　　Experience with performance tuning and optimization

　　What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

　　Airline or MRO experience is a plus

　　Experience in large application modernization projects

　　AWS experience preferred

　　United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact [email protected] to request accommodation.

　　Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT