02 Oct
|
ANSR
|
Hyderabad
ANSR is hiring for one of its clients.
About American Airlines:
To Care for People on Life's Journey®. Together with our American Eagle regional partners, we offer thousands of flights daily to more than 350 destinations in more than 60 countries.
American Airlines is transforming the way it delivers technology to its customers and team members worldwide.
American’s Tech Hub in Hyderabad, India, is our latest technology office location and home to team members who drive technical innovation and engineer unrivalled digital products to best serve American’s customers and team members. With U.S. tech hubs in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona, our new team in Hyderabad, India enables better support of our 24/7 operation and positions American to deliver industry-leading technology solutions that create a world-class customer experience.
Why You'll Love This Job:
The Customer Mobile Applications team is responsible for delivering world-class digital experiences across iOS, Android, and the backend services that power them. This team owns customer-facing mobile experiences supporting millions of users through scalable Java and JavaScript services deployed across a multi-cloud ecosystem.
As a Principal Solution Architect, you will drive the technical vision, architecture strategy, and engineering standards across mobile applications and supporting platforms. You will work closely with Product, Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers, and cross-functional partners to build highly scalable, secure, and reliable solutions that improve customer experience and business outcomes. This role requires both hands-on technical leadership and strategic architectural thinking.
What You'll Do:
- Define and evolve application architecture for customer-facing mobile platforms and backend services.
- Lead architecture and design reviews for Java, and JavaScript-based solutions.
- Collaborate with iOS and Android leads.
- Establish technical standards, engineering best practices, and architectural governance across multiple squads.
- Drive modernization initiatives including cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, and platform scalability.
- Partner with Product Owners and Engineering Managers during roadmap planning, PI planning, and solution definition activities.
- Guide teams in designing secure, highly available, performant,
and resilient systems.
- Lead multi-cloud architecture strategy across AWS, Azure, and other cloud platforms as required.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies that align with business goals.
- Define integration patterns between mobile applications, enterprise platforms, third-party partners, and cloud services.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure compliance and operational readiness.
- Provide technical mentorship to engineers and technical leads across multiple teams.
- Participate in production readiness reviews, incident analysis, root cause investigations, and continuous improvement activities.
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted development, automation, observability, and DevSecOps practices.
- Ensure solutions align with accessibility, privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 10 years of software engineering experience.
- 5 years of software architecture or technical leadership experience.
- Experience designing and delivering large-scale customer-facing digital products.
Technical Experience:
- Strong expertise with Java and modern backend frameworks (Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices).
- Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems and modern web technologies.
- Strong understanding of iOS and Android application architectures and mobile development best practices.
- Experience designing event-driven and API-first architectures.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and containerized applications.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, performance optimization, and scalability patterns.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting enterprise mobile applications with millions of customers.
- Experience with AWS and Azure cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native deployment models.
- Experience with observability platforms, monitoring, logging, and operational excellence practices.
- Background in airline, travel, hospitality, retail, or other high-volume customer-facing industries.
- Experience implementing AI-accelerated engineering solutions.
- Familiarity with SAFe Agile delivery frameworks and PI Planning.
- Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams
What Success Looks Like:
- Establishes a contemporary architecture strategy for mobile and backend platforms.
- Improves scalability, reliability, and engineering velocity across teams.
- Drives consistency in architecture standards and engineering practices.
- Reduces technical debt while enabling faster feature delivery.
- Enables secure, compliant, and highly available customer experiences across mobile ecosystems.
- Serves as a trusted technical advisor to product, engineering, and business leadership.
Technologies Typically Used:
- Java, Spring Boot
- JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js
- REST, GraphQL, Event Streaming
- AWS, Azure
- Kubernetes, Docker
- GitHub, Azure DevOps
- Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace
- AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, OpenAI, LLM-based engineering solutions)
LANGUAGE / COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
- Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and written with all levels within the organization
- Physical ability necessary to safely and successfully perform the essential functions of the position, with or without any legally required reasonable accommodations that do not pose an undue hardship. Note: If the Company has reason to question an employee’s physical ability to safely and/or successfully perform the position’s essential job functions, the HR team generally will engage in an interactive process to determine whether a reasonable accommodation is appropriate.
FEEL FREE TO BE YOURSELF AT AMERICAN:
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.
COMPETENCIES:
- Caring
- Collaboration
- Development
- Future
- Results
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