United Airlines Hiring for Sr Manager – IT App Development at Chicago, Illinois Full Time

Description

United’s Digital Technology team designs, develops, and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.

Our Values : At United Airlines, we believe that inclusion propels innovation and is the foundation of all that we do. Our Shared Purpose: “Connecting people. Uniting the world.” drives us to be the best airline for our employees, customers, and everyone we serve, and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. Our team spans the globe and is made up of diverse individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation.

With multiple employee-run “Business Resource Group” communities and world-class benefits like health insurance, parental leave, and space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work that will make you feel welcome and accepted. Come join our team and help us make a positive impact on the world.

Job overview and responsibilities

The purpose of the Senior Manager IT, Application Development position is to lead a development transformation team in the design, analysis and development of highly scalable critical airline capabilities like Load planning and routing. Leading a large cross functional team. This position will collaborate extensively with our business and development partners to design, develop and integrate services that meets the business needs. This position will have a strong focus on Java programming skills, AWS Cloud expertise, Agile development and organizational change management with the ability to influence innovation and through leadership.

Product Delivery and Support

• Responsible for creation of a modernized platform for Load planning

• Collaborate with developers and business users to design, develop, services that integrate services that meet business needs both internally and to our other airline partners.

• Contribute to the team effort by accomplishing project tasks on schedule and by interacting and mentoring junior and senior level developers

• Must be adaptable to changing designs and to adding performance enhancements

• Must be able to document code and implement code quality tools

• Possess strong Organizational Change Management skills to help guide the airline through this fundamental transition

• Lead the support team to provide 24×7 support for critical NOC applications

Development Tools & Architecture

• Play a key role with the adoption of the latest AWS Cloud tools

• Ensure IT application development process disciplines (solution delivery, project management, work requests, QA, etc.) and standards are established, effectively managed and performed

• Mentor junior developers

Leadership

• Accountable for administrative management of 5-10 IT professionals, either as direct reports or sourced – HR administration, Time Reporting, etc.

• Provide leadership by establishing department and individual’s goals

• Responsible for assessing and recommending improvements to the organization structure, roles and responsibilities

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.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Business Administration

• 3+ years of Application development (Java, SQL, JavaScript…etc.)

• AWS knowledge is preferred

• 10+ years of IT and business/industry work experience

• At least 3 -4 years of leadership experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders

• Requires advanced technical and business knowledge in software development life cycle, quality assurance, project management and other related disciplines/processes

• 24 months experience of Agile development

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship

• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification

• Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position

Preferred

• MS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems, or other related field

• Airline Experience is a plus

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