As a Principal Software Engineer – iXR, you will lead the end-to-end infrastructure and software design, technical governance, and development direction across the iXR platform. You will be accountable for end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) ownership across iXR, embedding shift-left practices to ensure quality, security, and performance are addressed from design through delivery. Working closely with peer architects and quality engineers, you will define and enforce standards for automated testing, quality assurance, performance and scalability testing, and operational readiness, ensuring solutions are resilient, reliable, and production-grade. This role requires deep expertise in AWS, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD design and setup, and Python scripting. You will lead and mentor a team of software and technical engineers responsible for designing, building, and operating high-quality iXR platform capabilities.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design, development and deployment of complex software solutions across teams. Carry out effective technical design reviews to ensure that the right architecture patterns are used by engineering teams.
- Champion development of best engineering practices and modernization techniques including process automation, lean software development, built-in-quality, test-driven development, agile practices, optimal pairing strategies and timely root cause analysis and blameless incident post-mortems. Support defining and refining the software engineering playbooks for use by relevant people in Technology.
- Provide technical leadership and partner with cross-functional teams during the discovery phase and in the development of high-level design of medium to large projects. Drive proof-of-concepts and implement prototypes to validate ideas. Investigate, debug and fix complex issues involving corner cases and rare conditions.
- Identify and develop frameworks, tools and practices to improve delivery quality of technology solutions and productivity of engineers.
- Responsible for the measurement and monitoring of engineering metrics that enable agility, scalability, data quality and reliability of technology solutions across the enterprise.
- Contribute to the creation of world-class engineering practices, playbooks and artifacts required to drive the technical career of software engineers in line with the software engineering strategy.
- Manage multiple assigned teams, with accountability for hiring top talent, defining development goals, managing performance, mentoring and coaching.
Qualification
To be considered for this role, you must meet the below requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
- Experience in Information Technology, Software Engineering (preferably in airline) building complex, scalable and large software solutions in digital, data or enterprise domain.
- Deep, hands-on experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, cloud-native platforms on AWS, with strong knowledge of core AWS services, security and compliance controls, and the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Proven ability to lead architectural decisions and make sound trade-offs on AWS across scalability, performance, resilience, cost, and operational complexity for business-critical platforms.
Knowledge/Skills
- Broad knowledge of the technology stacks used for business solutions including AWS, Software Engineering, and Platform Engineering.
- Strong knowledge in Scaled Agile methodology, with modern flexible working practices.
- Experience developing advanced technology solutions for large, complex organizations in a multi-functional environment.
- Ability to use professional concepts and company objectives to solve complex issues.
- Research industry innovations and best practices. Apply appropriately in the solution domain.
- Partnering with technical and business leaders across the organization to drive value from the technology solutions.
- Identify and remove waste in the software development lifecycle to improve flow, throughput, and productivity.
- Managing technology suppliers for complex solution development, global centers of excellence and distributed scaled agile practices.
Salary & Benefits
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