Senior Manager, IT Architecture (Ft Worth, TX, US)

Location: DFW Headquarters Building 8 (DFW-SV08) 
Additional Locations: Phoenix, AZ
Requisition ID: 42804 

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 Senior Manager, IT Architecture is a leader of the Architecture, Cloud and Engineering Platform Team, and part of the Technology Department at American Airlines. This team helps American ‘go for great’ by innovatively supporting philosophy, processes, technology and tools as needed to support the architecture and infrastructure of the application teams. This position is responsible for architecture and infrastructure of various consumer and employee facing applications and systems (both commercial and homegrown) in support of business objectives.  
   

What you'll do

As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced.  Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.

• Manages a team of Manager(s),  Developers, Architects, Cloud & Infrastructure Engineers, and Contractors
  • Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; developing personal and transforming/growing our engineering capabilities
• Accountable for identifying, designing, building, and implementing API services within portfolios and having end-to-end accountability for customer satisfaction, delivery effectiveness, and cost transparency; support strategic plans
  • Designs and maintains processes, procedures and support documentation
• Facilitates the cloud lifecycle journey aligning to Agile, and DevOps with a strong metrics and analytical mindset to drive automation and self-service technology
• Leads the architecture and engineering practice around Infrastructure-As-Code (IaC), to ensure that technology automation and orchestration is in alignment with business strategies, capabilities, and platform governance
• Establishes, communicates, and drives end-to-end executable technology into a reusable code/template and multi-cloud model, and provides agility and ease-of-use
• Maintains an effective approach on problem solving, multi-tasking, coordinating and scheduling in accordance with stated goals to ensure visibility and predictability
• Works closely with other technology teams to identify dependencies and collaboration needs (business applications, dev/ops, digital applications, network, infrastructure, architecture and delivery)
• Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing annual budgets; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective action
• Maintains deep technical and business knowledge of industry directions and trends in the area of cloud and Infrastructure; active in owns quest for knowledge and professional growth.
• Designs and maintains processes, procedures and support documentation
• Collaborates effectively with various business units, cross-functional IT teams, Vendor Management and Finance teams and 3rd party vendors
• Participates in contract negotiations with vendors under the direction of Vendor Management team

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Management or other related field.
• 7 years of experience with architecture and infrastructure teams through a direct reporting relationship.
• 5 years of experience overseeing large technology projects from inception to implementation in an enterprise environment.

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Experience with cloud enablement & migration
• Experience managing and creating the processes to support applications hosted in the cloud
• Experience with airline business processes and supporting technology 
• Experience leading Infrastructure teams in an Agile & DevOps model

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Experience in Scoping, Planning, Requirements Gathering and Documentation, Design, Development and Testing, and RFP process 
• Knowledge of Agile development
• Strong leadership skills and proven ability to communicate and collaborate with different audiences at various level.
• Ability to effectively lead staff under potentially high stakes and challenging situations
• Ability to delegate responsibilities effectively
• Demonstrated initiative, flexibility and ability to adapt to changing priorities and work environments
• Experience in managing ‘mission-critical’ projects/migrations
• Hands-on Knowledge and Experience in technology environment (software development, database development, operating systems design, hardware implementation)
• Be available to manage production issues and off-hours support, communication and coordination
• Travel as required (anticipated at 25% or less)

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: Phoenix, AZ
Requisition ID: 42804 

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