Sr Developer, IT

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

• Designs, engineers, and deploys American Airlines application systems into Azure Cloud
• Participate with teams to create Dev Ops delivery environments
• Collaborates with leaders, business analysts, project managers, IT architects, technical leads and other developers, along with internal customers, to understand requirements and develop needs according to business requirements
• 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
• Researches and implements new technologies to enhance current processes, security, and performance
• Security and compliance – Implementing robust security measures for cloud-native applications, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.
• Monitoring and logging – Setting up monitoring systems to track application performance, identify issues, and troubleshoot problems.
• Performance optimization – Optimizing application performance for cloud environments, considering scalability and resource utilization.
• Cloud platform expertise – Proficiently using cloud provider services (e.g. Azure).
• Works closely with software architects and technical leads to ensure decisions meet long-term enterprise growth needs

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
• 3 years of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience designing, developing, and implementing large-scale applications in hosted production environments
• 3 years of professional, design, and open-source experience

Preferred Qualifications
- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Master’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
• Airline Industry experience

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Proficiency in Full Stack Development

• Proficiency and demonstrated experience in the following technologies:

• J2EE technologies:
  Java, JSP, JMS, JAXB, JDBC, EJB

• Database and persistence frameworks:
  Hibernate, Oracle, Object/Relational Mapping, Query performance tuning

• Cloud-based development:
  Cloud Foundry

• Web Servers:
  Tomcat, tc Server, Websphere

• Web Services: REST/SOAP (JSON/WSDL/XML)

• Frameworks:
  Spring Framework, Spring Boot

• Front-end:
  Angular JS, Ext JS, CSS, jQuery, AJAX

• Build/deployment tools:
  Maven, Gradel, Git, Junit, Mockito

• Other Dev Ops Toolchain:
  Selenium, Nexus Repository, Hygieia, Sonar Qube, Fortify on Demand, Slack, Git Hub, Jenkins, Elastic Search, Logstaash, Kibana, New Relic

• Other:
  Linux/Unix shell Scripting, JavaScript, IBM MQ/Rabbit MQ, Tivoli Scheduler, SQL Developer, IDE

• Proficiency in object-oriented design techniques and principles

• Experience in Data related strategies and design

• Demonstrated experience in cloud setting:

• Provisioning Azure cloud services:
  App Service Environment, Azure Kubernetes,…