Developer - Information Technology

at United Airlines in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Description

There’s never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines. 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?

We believe that inclusion propels innovation and is the foundation of all that we do. United’s Digital Technology team spans the globe and is made up of diverse individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. Our team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.

Our Network Planning Digital Technology team is seeing a Developer who plays a Critical role in creating and maintaining the strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery. The Developer’s role is to lead the efforts to plan, design, develop and launch efficient systems and solutions in support of Network planning core 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 Developer is experienced and is self – sufficient requiring minimal direct supervision, and mentors/coaches’ others. The Developer has extensive knowledge/experience across multiple technologies and business areas. This position will play the role of in research and implementation of new methodologies and technologies in Network Planning.

· 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. 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 development domain areas and multiple technologies and tool set

· Demonstrate mastery of software engineer

Qualifications

Required:

· Requires advanced technical and business knowledge in software development life cycle, quality assurance, project management and other related disciplines/processes

· Requires experience with implementing memory and compute intensive applications, optimization models

· Requires experience with large complex, data intensive applications

· Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification

· Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

· 4+ years of experience building large-scale distributed applications with Python/Julia and sql in AWS or other cloud environments

· Experience with foundational AWS Services (such as, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, CloudTrail, CloudFront, Lambda, EKS, and/or ECS)

· Design, test, benchmark, and track the performance of analytic solutions over time

· Knowledge and skills of using Linux environment

· Work with teams across data organization to continually improve results by validating observations and insights and refining/enriching the data as needed

· 5+ years of IT and business/industry work experience

Preferred:

· Airline Experience with design development of ML/AI models is a plus

· MS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field

· Experience with scientific computing with Julia a plus

United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation.

Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT

Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT