Senior Developer - Information Technology (Python)

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

Find your future at United! We’re reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be – from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you’re joining a global team of 100,000+ connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward.

Job overview and responsibilities:

Crew Technology team provides web and mobile digital solutions to the largest frontline employee group at United. 45k United Pilots and Flight Attendants rely on these solutions for safer operations of our flights and to manage their quality of life and to provide top tier customer service to millions of travelers. With innovation as the forefront, this team consistently delivers industry leading solutions. The world's greatest airline is set to become the largest. We invite you to be part of our major expansion, transformation and modernization journey and help us build cutting-edge digital solutions leveraging the latest technologies and cloud architecture.

The Senior Developer plays a Critical role in creating and maintaining the strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery. The Senior Developer's role is to lead the efforts to plan, design, develop and launch efficient systems and solutions in support of core organizational functions. This individual will apply proven communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate, and resolve issues, opportunities or problems in order to maximize the benefit of IT and Business investments. The Senior Developer is highly experienced and has decision-making authority. The Senior Developer is self – sufficient, requires no direct supervision, and mentors/coaches’ others. The Senior Developer has extensive knowledge/experience across multiple technologies and business areas.

Leads the design, development, and planning for solutions and technology standards to solve complex business problems

Hands-on development, Support and troubleshoot software systems as required, optimizing performance, resolving problems, and providing follow-up on all issues and solutions

Ensures that systems are properly integrated

Works with business, support, or development teams recommending system enhancements

Consults across multiple United Information Technology projects and technology areas to perform troubleshooting, problem management, root-cause analysis, and solution implementation

Serves as a resource for technology/project development review and technical assessments

Ensures that the technical solutions meet the customers’ business goals

Provide consultation and technical leadership in project life cycle planning

Ensures consistency and coherence to the enterprise standards and guiding principles throughout the application lifecycle

Identifies opportunities to leverage/influence the direction for existing infrastructure and application components

Keeps abreast of industry trends through benchmarking, participation in professional associations etc. in order to advise others of strategic technology direction

Provides feedback to the enterprise technology owners and Architects regarding future solution needs

Understands and applies the enterprise vision and strategy to the project solution while balancing tactical needs to deliver

Partner with various business and IT stakeholders in defining domain architecture strategy

Demonstrate exceptional knowledge of application architecture and architecture constructs as it connects to the enterprise architecture

Demonstrate mastery of the application of development domain areas and multiple technologies and tool set

Demonstrate mastery of software engineering.

This position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded. This position is for United Airlines Business Services Pvt. Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of United Airlines Inc.

Required:

Bachelor’s in Computer Science/Information Technology or related field

9+ years of experience in application design, development, installation and modification of software

9+ years of experience as a Python developer

4+ years of experience with Linux command line scripting (bash)

4+ years of experience in design patterns and enterprise standards in application design

Experience with code management tools like Git, Github, Gitlab

Experience with the Eclipse development environment

Experience with relational database design and development

Business Acumen skills

Creativity & Innovation skills

""Big Picture"" Thinker

Strategic skills

Effective Communication (verbal + written) skills

Understands Technology systems & applications skills

Vendor Management skills,Negotiation skills

Exceptional at coding and on time delivery of quality components and or applications

Exceptional at component and unit testing of following standard practices and methodologies

Exceptional utilizing the technologies and domain knowledge with the delivery of developed components or integrated components

Exceptional at working problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires review of a variety of factors

Exceptional at triage or analysis of situations for production support

Excel with on time delivery with minimal supervision

Effective verbal and written communicator

Effective participant of requirements gathering requirements analysis

Must be legally authorized to work in the India 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:

Jeppesen optimization tools (i.e. RAVE, Developers Workspace, Studio)

Batch job management (e.g. Altair Grid Engine)

Constraint-based optimization (e.g. minizinc)

VNC systems, AWS

Schedule: Full-time