Description

We’re on a path towards becoming the best airline in the history of aviation. Our shared purpose – Connecting People, Uniting the World – is about more than getting people from one place to another. It also means that as a global company that operates in hundreds of locations around the world with millions of customers and tens of thousands of employees, we have a unique responsibility to uplift and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live and fly and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. And we’re growing – in the years ahead, we’ll hire tens of thousands of people across every area of the airline. Our careers include a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you happy, healthy and well-traveled. From employee-run “Business Resource Group” communities to world-class benefits like parental leave, 401k and privileges like space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work. Are you ready to travel the world?

Key Responsibilities:

The digital solutions we deliver solve complex challenges to help our operation work more efficiently every day.

This Sr. Manager role will play a critical part in our Core MRO System Replacement program – an exciting multi-year effort to modernize and transform our most critical Tech Ops platforms. This Sr. Manager will lead a team of analysts, developers, and other roles to drive overall execution of one or more workstreams. This role will require understanding complex business processes, understanding a highly integrated cloud and on-prem current and future-state distributed architecture, and building an impactful team to perform industry-leading work. This is a role requires an experienced technology leader with a validated history of driving in large-scale initiatives. Solid understanding of application development and integration frameworks and models is required. This position will collaborate extensively with Tech Ops as well as Digital Technology teams.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a multi-functional team of product managers, analysts, developers, architects, testers, and others.
• Coach, develop, and inspire team members to develop and sustain a strong team.
• Provide sound technical decision-making and guidance to deliver sustainable, high-quality products.
• Be a trusted leader with vision with business partners to create impactful products that delight your customers.
• Define and lead integration strategy and solutions in partnership with key technical leads
• Lead product evaluation efforts inclusive of functional, performance, scalability, security, and architectural requirements
• Lead development of proofs-of-concept to support product evaluation and strategic planning
• Support estimation of project costs through all phases of the project including analysis, development, integration, testing, deployment
• Responsible for overall product technical quality from unit testing through functional and non-functional testing
• Responsible for partnering with Tech Ops business through requirements mapping
• Engage with business partners to develop an understanding of business processes, difficulties, and opportunities
• Engage with technical collaborators to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, architecture best practices, and key integrations