iOS Principal Architect, IT Applications (Ft Worth, TX, US)

Location: DFW Headquarters Building 7 (DFW-SV07) 
Additional Locations: None
Requisition ID: 51684 

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 iOS Product Technical Leader on the Mobile Product team works with other team members to produce customer facing mobile applications that provide a superior user experience and support key business objectives. They participate in all aspects of application development including design, development and delivery using an Agile process. They provide input to members of both the business and technical teams to ensure platform and American Airlines best practices are followed on the Android customer facing application. They are also responsible for mentoring developers and participating in peer reviews for the iOS platform.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with multi-discipline teams to design and implement solutions in the consumer facing mobile application.
• Provide technical subject matter expertise on mobile app user experiences.
• Provide subject matter expertise on iOS development best practices with Swift and Objective-C.
• Provide guidance to, and collaborate with, other mobile developers on team to evolve engineering practices to meet current industry best practices.
• Provide guidance on optimizing app/web services interface to improve system capacity and lower ongoing app maintenance needs.
• Collaborate with automated testing team to improve coverage and maintainability of automated test suites.
• Peer review code from other developers across all mobile app teams as features are developed.
• Mentor other developers on general mobile and software engineering practices and mobile app team development processes.
• Create and present lessons learned presentations for sharing with other technology and business disciplines within the larger mobile app team.
   

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 5+ years of iOS development experience with knowledge of API design, best practices, and UX guidelines.
• Experience with Swift and Objective-C
• Knowledge of UI testing and continuous integration
• Knowledge of multi-threading concepts, TCP/IP, database, and REST based JSON APIs.
• Experience in commercial software
• History of publishing consumer facing applications to the Apple App Store
   

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Master's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• Experience leading development teams that follow an Agile/Scrum process 
• 3+ years of technical leadership with IT personnel
• 7+ years of iOS development experience
• 10+ years of general software development experience
• Familiarity with functional programming concepts, distributed revision control systems and large-scale systems
• Airline industry experience

 

All you'll need for success

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Experience supporting and directing technical architecture for supported business domains
• Passion for change and continual improvement with ability to effectively lead, drive, and support change
• Proven ability to work across multiple functional teams in the creation of business solutions
• Experience with the operations characteristics of large scale and highly available computer systems deployed in a variety of software and hardware environments
• Knowledge of systems integration practices and understanding of Service Oriented Architecture principles and practices
• Ability to simultaneously manage a large Architect workload involving multiple projects, day-to-day tasks, meetings and ad-hoc technical requests
• Ability to adapt to unexpected events, new facts, and rapidly changing circumstances
• Ability to thrive in a sense-of-urgency environment and leverage best practices
• Ability to be highly responsive and communicative, act with urgency, commit to follow-through and delivery, and respond to many simultaneous challenges with tenacity and innovation
• During adversity or challenges, ability to apply discipline, responsibility, initiative, and resources to stay on course and/or achieve resolution
• Understanding of the application environments and related tools, and their relationship to each other
• Understanding of the end-to-end implementation process and procedures

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: 51684 

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