Assoc. Manager, Engineering
Role Overview
Lead one of the Altéa Customer Management Scrum teams, delivering software for airline customers.
The team includes product definition analysts, software engineers, and QA engineers.
The Departure Control System supports check-in and boarding for approximately 150 airlines and one billion passengers annually.
Depending on the organization, the manager may own the CM stream for Southwest Airlines or Air France-KLM.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Lead one of the Altéa Customer Management Scrum teams, delivering software for airline customers.
The team includes product definition analysts, software engineers, and QA engineers.
The Departure Control System supports check-in and boarding for approximately 150 airlines and one billion passengers annually.
Depending on the organization, the manager may own the CM stream for Southwest Airlines or Air France-KLM.
Team and people management
- Develop team members in an open, inclusive environment and promote feedback and knowledge sharing.
- Set objectives, review progress, conduct performance reviews, and support recruitment and onboarding.
- Build a balanced, efficient, self-organized team able to plan and solve problems autonomously.
Delivery and customer focus
- Manage team scope, timelines, quality, cost, performance, and results.
- Support customer expectations and priorities with Customer Success Engineers, Stream Leaders, and Product Owners.
- Build trusted relationships with customer stakeholders and competency centers, and respond to production issues and escalations.
- Assess customer needs and deliver high-quality software changes on schedule and within committed scope and budget.
Technical leadership and collaboration
- Drive quality and shift-left practices and address technical debt, security, performance, and automation.
- Promote operational stability, engineering discipline, continuous improvement, and innovation.
- Align work with other component teams and streams and contribute to maintenance, testing, and production releases.
- Represent the team in project and ART forums and collaborate with other Engineering Managers.
- Share customer context and priorities, and support organizational change and improvements.
Candidate qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience in software engineering and Agile methodologies; SAFe experience is preferred.
- Ability to understand large-scale, complex systems that must operate continuously.
- Strong interpersonal skills for regular collaboration with internal teams and customers.
- Previous management and customer-facing experience are strong pluses; Travel IT experience is a plus.
Product context
Amadeus manages the airline Departure Control System and Altéa Customer Management, a mission-critical application supporting customer experience at and beyond the airport.
The team works with airline competency centers, including those associated with Air France-KLM and Southwest Airlines.
Benefits
- The source mentions flexible working and 28 days of leave, but the available description is truncated before the full benefits details.
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