Sr Associate Engineer, IT Data

About the Role: Sr Associate Engineer, IT Data at American Airlines

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities at American Airlines? Join our team where you'll travel the world, grow your expertise, and become the best version of yourself. This role offers the chance to tackle challenges with flexibility, learning new skills, and advancing your career while enriching both your personal and work life.

Why You'll Love This Job

As part of a diverse, high-performing team dedicated to technical excellence, you will relentlessly focus on delivering unrivaled digital products that contribute to a more reliable and profitable airline. The Data Domain within Information Technology is crucial, managing and leveraging data as a strategic asset. This encompasses data management, storage, integration, and governance, with a significant lean into Machine Learning, AI, Data Science, and Business Intelligence.

What You'll Do as a Sr Associate Engineer, IT Data

This role involves a dynamic set of responsibilities, including:

• Work closely with source data application teams and product owners to design, implement, and support analytics solutions that provide insights for better decision-making.
• Implement data migration and data engineering solutions utilizing a range of Azure products and services, such as Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Event Hub, Azure Stream Analytics, and Azure Databricks, alongside traditional data warehouse tools.
• Perform multiple aspects of the development lifecycle, including design, cloud engineering (Infrastructure, network, security, and administration), ingestion, preparation, data modeling, testing, CICD pipelines, performance tuning, deployments, consumption, BI, alerting, and production support.
• Develop technical solutions both collaboratively within a team and independently.
• Be an integral part of a DevOps team that completely owns and supports its product.
• Adhere to coding standards, best practices, and privacy and security guidelines.
• Contribute to a multi-functional team with diverse technical and domain skills.

Minimum Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training.
• 1+ years of experience building data solutions, utilizing agile and DevOps practices.
• 1+ years of data analytics experience using SQL.
• 1+ years of experience with Cloud technologies, especially Microsoft Azure.

Preferred Qualifications

Ideal candidates will also possess:

• 2+ years of software solution development experience using agile, DevOps, and a product model, including designing, developing, and implementing large-scale applications or data engineering solutions.
• 2+ years of data analytics experience using SQL.
• 2+ years of full-stack development experience, preferably in Azure.
• 1+ years of cloud development and data lake experience (preferably Microsoft Azure), including Azure EventHub, Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, ADX, ASA, Azure Databricks, Azure DevOps, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake, Azure Power Apps, and Power BI.
• 1+ years of Teradata Vantage development and administration.
• Airline Industry Experience.

Skills, Licenses, And Certifications

• Expertise with a Cloud-based technology stack for data management, ingestion, curation, and consumption layers.
• Azure Databricks Certifications (preferred).

What American Airlines Offers You

American Airlines values its team members and offers a comprehensive benefits package:

• Travel Perks: Explore 365 destinations with your family and friends on over 6,800 daily flights.
• Health Benefits: Access health, dental, prescription, and vision benefits from day one, plus virtual doctor visits and flexible spending accounts.
• Wellness Programs: Tools, resources, and support to help you be your best self.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire, with employer contributions after one year (depending on workgroup).
• Additional Benefits: Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance, and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises, and more.

Diversity and Inclusion at American Airlines

Inclusion and diversity are foundational to the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Their 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups connect team members to customers, suppliers, communities, and shareholders, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can reach their full potential. Join American Airlines and feel a tremendous sense of pride keeping the world's largest airline running smoothly.

Key skills/competency

• Data Engineering
• Azure Cloud Services
• SQL Data Analytics
• DevOps Practices
• Data Migration
• Data Modeling
• CICD Pipelines
• Power BI
• Teradata Vantage
• Cloud Data Management