Sr Manager, IT Engineering

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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

• This job is a member of the Technology Team within the Technology Division
• This role builds an environment where teams leverage Agile, DevOps, Spec-Driven Development (SDD) and/or SDLC AI acceleration to deliver platform capabilities with speed and quality
• You will champion a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and intelligent automation-preparing teams for the future of aviation technology
  
  

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.

• Collaborates with Business and IT leadership to determine and communicate systems 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
• Removes roadblocks, cultivates relationships, and effectively communicates across Enterprise at various levels of leadership
• Leads, influences, and enforces technology standards
• Demonstrates continuous improvement mindset for internal development processes and how applications assist in business processes operational flow
• Uses software development best practices to design and implement processes that maintain quality standards while meeting deadlines
  
  

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 10 years of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience designing, developing and implementing large-scale applications in hosted production environments
• 7 years of experience overseeing large technology projects from inception to implementation in an enterprise environment
• 5 years of experience delivering SDLC solutions using ITIL / Agile / XP, or similar methodologies
  
  

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• Airline industry experience, including business processes and supporting technology
• Experience implementing spec-driven development, structured requirements frameworks, and automated traceability pipelines
  
  

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Demonstrated ability to lead, develop, and motivate teams through periods of technical transformation-including adoption of AI, automated workflow platforms, and SDD practices
• Ability to build strong relationships across IT and business functions, driving adoption of intelligent automation and AI-enabled processes
• Proven experience supporting mission-critical systems with 24/7 uptime requirements
• Strong strategic thinking, decision-making, and prioritization skills
• Deep knowledge of SDLC processes, including Agile, Lean, and Waterfall-plus experience enhancing those processes with model-driven, agentic, or AI-assisted tooling
• Strong technical fundamentals including OOP, data structures, design patterns, distributed systems, and cloud architectures
• Experience developing or governing large-scale applications in AWS and optimizing workloads using agentic AI
• Experience providing requirements and technical guidance for vendor contracts and statements of work
• Strong financial management skills and the ability to manage multiple workstreams efficiently
• Experience managing and governing data from distributed enterprise systems
  
  

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.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY/ AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICY

American Airlines maintains a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in employment. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity and access for all persons, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or status as a disabled veteran or other protected veteran, in all phases of the employment process and in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. This policy of nondiscrimination shall include, but not be limited to, the following employment decisions and practices: hiring; upgrading; promotions; demotions or transfers; layoffs; recalls; terminations; rates of pay or other forms of compensation; selection for training, including apprenticeship; and recruitment or recruitment advertising.

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