Manager, IT Applications (Ft Worth, TX, US)

Location: DFW Headquarters Building 7 (DFW-SV07) 
Additional Locations: None
Requisition ID: 37022 

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

• The American mobile app has over 40M downloads and the team is growing. With our hyper-growth we are looking for a manager to lead a highly technical mobile application delivery team in support of American’s business initiatives.  This role will ensure the success of the multiple squads reporting to them. These squads work on feature enhancements that have been prioritized by the business for optimum customer engagement. These new features drive increased revenue, improve operational efficiencies, build loyalty, and close competitive gaps. You will mentor, coach, and motivate employees. You will remove any road blocks to delivery and keep the business apprised of project status and any delays.

What you'll do

• Direct large technology projects from inception through entire SDLC in an enterprise environment.
• Collaborates with Business and IT leadership to determine and communicate organization vision, direction, and work priorities, and drives progress towards technology target roadmaps
• Ensures that sound agile project management, business analysis, and quality assurance processes are in place and practiced
• Creates environment for delivery teams to be self-governing organizations who are accountable for their own performance and delivery commitments
• Exhibits a desire for continuous learning and sharing of new knowledge within the organization
• Removes roadblocks, cultivates relationships, and effectively communicates across Enterprise at various levels of leadership
• Create and maintain budget costs within the approved budget, per stated goals and phases of the product.
• Manages and leads adoption and migration of new and emerging technologies
• Leads, develops, and mentors a high performing team of individuals with a diverse range of skills and experiences
• Maintains an effective approach on problem solving, multi-tasking, coordinating and scheduling
• Leads, influences, and upholds technology standards and goals to ensure visibility and predictability
• Manage and develop releases on multiple platforms to ensure that all code released to production systems meet or exceed pre-defined quality standards.
• Maintain mobile application operations worldwide, monitoring, and 24x7 coverage on call, and system health.
• Manages production issues and off-hours support, communication, and coordination, as needed
• Works extended hours occasionally, based on the needs of the project and the operation
• Travels, as required
 

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business (or equivalent work experience)
• 7 years of experience overseeing large technology projects from inception in an enterprise environment

 

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Airline industry experience, including business process and supporting technology

 

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Strong leadership skills and proven ability to communicate and collaborate with different audiences
• Ability to effectively lead under potentially high stress and challenging situations
• Delegate responsibilities effectively
• Demonstrated initiative, flexibility and ability to adapt to changing priorities and work environments
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative management style
• Experience in managing ‘mission-critical’ projects/migrations
• Working knowledge and experience in technology environment (desktop computing, hardware and operating systems, networks, telecommunications etc.)
• Management or other related field or equivalent work experience
• Experience with airline business processes and supporting technology preferred
• BA/PM/Scrum master experience preferred
• Agile experience
• Budgeting

 

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.

Additional Locations: None
Requisition ID: 37022 

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