Software Development & Information Technology Manager

Job Details

• • Posted on October 13, 2026

Showing 1 location Fort Worth, TX 76177, USA

• On-site
• Technology
• Full-Time
• Requisition #: INFOR
  001630

BACKGROUND

Across the globe, 365 days a year. These talented team FAR Part 121 Supplemental Air Carrier, Gridiron Air is a leading charter airline specializing in customized flight solutions using its fleet of Boeing 777-200ER aircraft. We are committed to delivering new levels of safety, hospitality, and operational excellence to the charter market. Our talented flight and cabin crew operate acr members are supported by dedicated professionals out of our corporate office - including our state-of-the-art Operations Control Center and world-class Maintenance Operation - located at AFW, Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport, in Fort Worth, Texas.

Flexibility is required to meet the needs of our business and will require evening and weekend availability when needed.

Gridiron expects its employees to conduct business honestly and ethically wherever operations are maintained. We strive to improve our services, products, and processes consistently and will maintain a reputation for safety, reliability, service, operational excellence, integrity, diversity, and inclusion. Our employees are expected to adhere to high standards of business and personal integrity as a representation of our business practices at all times, consistent with their duty of loyalty to the company.

In addition, Gridiron Air expects all its employees to uphold a work environment that ensures Safety, Security, Quality, Responsibility, and value for all our employees, clients, customers, and other stakeholders.

SUMMARY

The Manager, Software Development & IT designs, builds, hosts, and supports the business applications that Gridiron Air runs on, and leads the information technology function that supports them. This is a hands-on engineering position with management responsibility, not a management position with technical oversight. The person in this role writes and deploys code, designs and maintains APIs and integrations, builds solutions on Microsoft Azure, the Power Platform, and SharePoint, and personally performs th e work when the team's capacity or skills require it.

A primary objective of this position is to lead and personally contribute to the replacement of vendor-hosted compliance and safety platforms with applications built and hosted in house. These are regulated systems of record supporting FAA-required processes, and the role carries technical ownership of their architecture, development, data migration, security, and continued airworthiness of the data they hold.

The role has two direct reports and is accountable for the full range of information technology at a small carrier: enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, end-user support delivered jointly with an external managed service provider, and IT regulatory compliance in a highly regulated aviation environment. The successful candidate is a working software engineer who has led technical staff and is prepared to own everything from an API contract to a laptop refresh.

GENERAL DUTIES

IT OPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT

• Lead, develop, and direct two direct reports — setting technical standards, assigning and reviewing work, mentoring, and managing performance — while personally performing hands-on technical work as part of the normal duties of the role.

• Manage and maintain the organization’s technology environment, including enterprise networking, identity and access management, endpoints and mobile devices, SaaS applications, and supporting infrastructure, ensuring availability, security, performance, and operational reliability.

• Manage the external IT managed service provider and other technology…