**Description** Find your future at United! We’re reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be – from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you’re joining a global team of 100,000+ connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward. Achieving our ambitions starts with supporting yours. Evolve your career and find your next opportunity. Get the care you need with industry-leading health plans and best-in-class programs to support your emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Expand your horizons with travel across the world’s biggest route network. Connect outside your team through employee-led Business Resource Groups. Create what’s next with us. Let’s define tomorrow together. United's Digital Technology team is comprised of many talented 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. **Key Responsibilities:** The purpose of the Senior Manager IT, Application Development position is to lead a development team in the continued design and development of Loyalty applications. This position will collaborate extensively with our business partners to design, develop and integrate user interfaces and services that meets the business needs. This position will have a strong focus on cloud, .Net programming skills and Agile development with the ability to influence innovation within the Loyalty space.The role will emphasize solutions architecture, Agile development, and driving organizational change. · Lead and manage the team responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining cloud-based application/s. Lead a portfolio of technology projects to ensure delivery of work requests and projects are within committed budget, on schedule, and the quality of individual projects meets the overall department performance goals. Manage multiple vendor development teams assigned to projects and core support. · Understand and partner with United business and DT leadership teams along with product SMEs to define the end-state vision, goals, and strategy of the product and create multi-year product development strategy and tactical plans. Share knowledge and collaborate to come up with effective and innovative solutions to problems. · Engage, collaborate and partner with stakeholders, technical and business, to understand business requirements and user expectations, and lead the development of solutions that meet functional and technical requirements. · Aligning with business partners on delivery success criteria and ensuring technology solutions follow architectural standards. Provide delivery estimates and business case updates to support overall IT performance metrics, monthly project status reporting and quarterly resource planning review · Identify technical obstacles early and work closely with the team to find creative solutions. Responsible for escalating, assisting and follow-through on resolution of issues related to delivery of technology solutions · Ensure best practices for Agile methodologies are implemented, and continuous improvements are made, as needed. Ensure adherence to code scanning and other security protocols are adhered to during development and release. · Empower, coach, and develop team members. Promote a culture of learning. Establish team and individual’s goals including performance reviews and career and performance plans. Perform short and long-term resources (internal and external) planning to ensure the proper number of resources and right skills are available to meet project goals and schedules. Assess and recommend improvements to the organization structure, roles, and responsibilities. **Qualifications** **What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):** · 5+ years of web or mobile development (ASP.NET, MVC, SQL, API, JavaScript…etc.) · 9+ years of IT and business/industry work experience · 2+ years of hands-on experience with foundational AWS Services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, CloudTrail, CloudFront, Lambda, EKS, ECS, etc.) · 3+ years of software development best practices such as CI/CD, Unit/Integration testing, code reviews · At least 3-4 years of leadership experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders · Requires advanced technical and business knowledge in software development life cycle, quality assurance, project management and other related disciplines/processes · 12 months experience of Agile development · Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Management, Information Systems or related field **What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):** · Master's degree · Airline experience · AWS certification · SAFe experience The base pay range for this role is $137,275.00 to $187,000.00. The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards. You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges. 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. Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT. 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.