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!

• ​This job is a member of the Information Technology Team within the Information Technology Division.
• ​Responsible for supporting and transforming existing and new mission critical and highly-visible operational website(s) and applications – spanning multiple technology stacks – through all phases of SDLC, while working collaboratively across IT, business, and third party suppliers from around the globe in a 24x7, fast-paced, and Agile based environment

• Collaborates with customers and business teams to transform business requirements into functioning software
• Works with business, architect, infrastructure, security, and other corporate teams to provide end to end solution and support for steady-state systems
• Combines conceptual understanding with broad applied experience and provides seasoned technical expertise, high-level analytical, interpretative, evaluative, and/or constructive advice
• Evaluates requirements and enhancements requests, and proposes solutions with careful consideration of cost, impact, standards, and compatibility to with other systems
• Assists in the collection and documentation of users requirements, development of user stories, estimates, testing strategies, and work plans
• Prepares, consolidates, and generates release notes that are audience appropriate
• Applies advanced level understanding of current and future technology architecture and integrates this knowledge into design, problem solving, planning, and strategic technical roadmaps
• Prepares reports, manuals, and other documentation on the status, operation, and maintenance of software
• Uses critical thinking to frame complex issues/problems, develops multiple creative solution options, performs tradeoff analysis, identifies impact of various alternative solutions and synthesizes data to arrive at a recommended approach in support of making decisions and taking action
• Performs thorough analysis and generates root-cause-analysis for any production incident
• Maintains and enhances existing enterprise services, applications, and platforms using domain driven design and test-driven development
• Troubleshoots and debugs complex issues; identifies and implements solutions

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 3 years of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience
• 3 years of hand-on Agile/XP or related delivery experience
  

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Masters 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

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Proficiency in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis
• Proficiency and demonstrated experience in the following technologies:
  • Web/Mobile technologies: AngularJS, Ext JS, HTML/5, CSS, jQuery, AJAX, JavaScript, Ionic, Apache Cordova/PhoneGap, React
  • Front-end and other frameworks: Spring, Spring Boot, MVC
  • Microsoft technologies: .Net, Classic ASP, VBScript, SQL Server, etc.
  • Database and persistence frameworks: Microsoft SQL Server 2012+, Stored Procedures, SSIS Packages, Hibernate, Oracle, Object/Relational Mapping, Query performance tuning
  • Web Servers: IIS 8.0+, Tomcat, tcServer, Websphere
  • Web Services: REST/SOAP (JSON/WSDL/XML)
  • Build/deployment tools: Maven, Git, Junit, Mockito, TFS Git, Nexus
  • Other Dev Ops Toolchain: Selenium, Nexus Repository, Hygieia, SonarQube, Fortify on Demand, Slack, GitHub, Jenkins, ElasticSearch, Logstaash, Kibana, New Relic Other: Windows Task Scheduler, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, Linux/Unix shell Scripting, IBM/Rabbit MQ, Tivoli Scheduler, SQL Developer
  • J2EE technologies: Java, JSP, JMS, JAXB, JDBC
• Extensive experience with:
  • developing and delivering mobile applications
  • designing and delivering responsive websites
  • debugging, performance profiling, and optimization
  • NET using object-oriented design techniques and best practices
  • building high performance RESTFul and SOAP web services
  • designing, delivering, and supporting cloud based solutions
• Ability to learn and apply new technology solutions
• Ability to work with geographically distributed delivery teams
• Experience developing/delivering native Android and/or iOS applications
• Experience with Automated Testing
• Experience in Agile methodologies, such as SCRUM
  

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

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.