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

We’re looking for a Technology leader with a proven track record in leading technology and architecture strategy as well as transformation of legacy systems into a modernized and future-forward technology. This leader will have an engineering first mindset and believe in providing a delightful self-service developer and engineering experience, inspire and grow engineering competency within the Technology organization, and partner across enterprise organizations to build the future of American Airlines technology. They will be strategic in assessing industry technology trends, driving rapid incubation and adoption at American with operational impact front of mind.

What you'll do

As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations .

• Lead American’s technology strategies, governance model, and drive Architecture Principles and Engineering Tenets

• Provide clear architectural and strategic guardrails that empower teams to operate autonomously

• Increase innovation by evaluating and accelerating the overall adoption of emerging technologies

• Lead an organization of architects responsible for the design, build, and operations of platforms and tools that enable consistent technology delivery across the enterprise

• Promote technical excellence by raising the visibility of engineering practices and driving the adoption of automation platforms that accelerate cloud migration

• Focus on solving engineering problems and ensure all architectural activities add value and enable developers, modernizing processes

• Provide oversight and escalation of architectural risks related to technology controls, vendors, or other risk scenarios

• Communicate and sell the technical vision for the portfolio

• Decompose very complex systems into their essential functions

• Drive action plans in all parts of the portfolio around Resiliency, Adaptability, and Interoperability

• Coordinate architectural choices within the standards defined across American Airlines

• Establish and design centralized standards for SDLC process, tools, managing technical debt, SLAs, and tech stack choices

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Demonstrates the highest level of ethics and integrity

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training; Advanced Degree preferred

• 7 years of progressive technology leadership experience, including development, infrastructure, and architecture teams

• 10 years of experience with software engineering, architecture, and infrastructure technologies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to communicate with senior business and IT stakeholders effectively and clearly, and to sell a technical strategy and vision

• Ability to communicate a strategic vision and technical concepts effectively and clearly to engineering audiences both verbally and in written communication

• Proficiency and tenure leading in Agile, DevOps and SDLC methodologies

• Extensive experience collaborating with cross-functional architecture groups

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Ability to drive action plans in resiliency, adaptability, and architectural coupling concepts such as API and other interface-driven techniques

• Proficiency in understanding where to gain leverage on evolving our architectures and driving change in areas where we expect to need to evolve more frequently

• Ability to explain technical concepts and adjust messaging based on the audience, including non-technical groups

• Ability to build collaborative relationships with, and consensus amongst, multiple stakeholders with varying points of view

• Ability to influence through outstanding interpersonal skills, collaboration, and negotiation skills

• Ability to think strategically, negotiate skillfully, digest complex details, and use sound judgment and initiative in making decisions

• Ability to adapt to unexpected events, new facts, and rapidly changing circumstances

• Ability to thrive in a sense-of-urgency environment and leverage best practices

• Demonstrated understanding of emerging technology trends

• Proven experience in growing engineering practices such as infrastructure as code, containerization, source control management, CI/CD, and test automation

• Proven ability to manage internal and external resources, as well as manage relationships with 3rd party providers and partners

• Demonstrated ability to solve, and to lead others in solving, complex analytical problems

• Willingness to take calculated risks

• Ability to build and facilitate relationships at all levels of the organization, both internally and externally

• Self-driven with a natural aptitude for engaging employees in multiple workgroups

• Believes in, promotes and embodies in daily actions the American Airlines five leadership attributes:

• Caring – We care about all team members

• Collaboration – We succeed as a team

• Development – We build future leaders

• Results – We drive to be the best

• Future – We continually challenge the status quo

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.

Discrimination and all unlawful harassment (including sexual harassment) in employment is not tolerated. We encourage success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or employment status. We support and obey laws that prohibit discrimination everywhere we do business. American Airlines, Inc fully considers all qualified applicants including those with a criminal history.

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American Airlines maintains a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in employment. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity and access for all persons, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or status as a disabled veteran or other protected veteran, in all phases of the employment process and in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. This policy of nondiscrimination shall include, but not be limited to, the following employment decisions and practices: hiring; upgrading; promotions; demotions or transfers; layoffs; recalls; terminations; rates of pay or other forms of compensation; selection for training, including apprenticeship; and recruitment or recruitment advertising.