Senior Developer - Information Technology

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Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Developer Technical Lead to join our team. They will be expected to explain new projects to their team and work on an overall delivery approach, with appropriate technical measures. They will lead projects from start to finish: attending project kickoff meetings, collaboratively crafting rules & requirements with business stakeholders, working with delivery teams to draft and refine user stories, defining the high-level architecture, working with other developers to ensure development is done to plan, and working with EQE to test work delivered. The technical lead will be required to anticipate risks, form contingency plans, and address these with technical solutions as applicable. Additionally, the candidate will be tasked with simplifying our application’s codebase by adhering to design patterns, refactoring complex or poorly designed code, and ensuring robust code integration practices. Finally, this candidate must be able to lead by example and integrate seamlessly into a division of highly responsible & psychologically safe team members.

About the Team:

The Electronic Miscellaneous Document (EMD) team at United Airlines is a 40-person division responsible for a complex system at the heart of the Commercial IT department. EMDs serve as the source of truth for the carriage and service contracts of United Airlines' passengers, and as a result, are integral to the airline's daily operations. Our 40+ applications directly support United's ability to identify, track, and process revenue-related transactions, and are a backend input to all our customer- and agent-facing systems such as DotCom, Mobile, Navigator, Jet, and many more.

The EMD team works collaboratively with numerous other teams within United Airlines, contributing to the company's commitment to excellence. The work that EMD successfully delivers is highly intricate due to the nature of the industry, requiring a deep understanding of various elements such as EMDs, electronic tickets (etickets), Passenger Name Records (PNRs), forms of payment, and the wide array of products and services offered by the airline. This role requires the ability to make direct connections between business processes and system architectures, as well as anticipating impacts beyond EMD’s domain.

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