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Company

Southwest Airlines · 6 hours ago

Tech Lead Software Engineer - IDF Customer Experience and Ground Ops Analytics

Dallas, TX

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$151K/yr - $168K/yr

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Responsibilities

Provide accurate development estimates in support of feasibility assessments and planned development activities

Create, maintain, review and approve application designs in collaboration with Solution Architects and shared services Teams, ensuring alignment to the appropriate solution architectures and taking tradeoffs into account

Develop, maintain, and review software with a focus on quality and maintainability

Develop, maintain, review, and execute unit, functional, and integration tests with a focus on automation and test-driven development

Provide technical oversight for performance testing, ensuring plan and outcomes align to expected non-functional requirements

Plan and oversee application deployment activities and sequencing in non-production and production environments

Investigate new technologies that could improve the applications and development activities

Identify and resolve technical debt as appropriate, weighing the development effort against the value returned

Mentor and coach Development Team on relevant architecture, design, development, and operations topics

Evaluate code to ensure that it is valid, is properly structured, meets industry standards, and is compatible with browsers, devices, or operating systems

May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders

Qualification

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Software development methodologiesPythonAWS Cloud ETL toolsJavaProject management principlesAnalytical problem-solvingETL toolsCloud data warehouse

Required

High School Diploma or GED

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or Information Systems, or related field; or equivalent formal training

Expert level experience, expansive and far reaching knowledge in software engineering

Advanced knowledge of software development methodologies, practices, concepts, and technologies

Advanced knowledge of at least one programming language and at least general knowledge of one or more additional programming languages

Knowledge of project management methodology and principles

Ability to demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a proactive mindset to get ahead of issues

Skilled in communication with ability to articulate a clear direction and priorities on ideas, approaches, concepts, options, risks, impacts, and recommendations to technical, non-technical, and Leadership audiences with ability to adapt the message accordingly

Ability to articulate the technical implementation and how it provides business value

Ability to lead ideation, presentation, and group-thinking sessions

Ability to influence effectively without authority up through Senior Leadership levels to achieve desired business outcomes

Ability to lead multiple efforts concurrently, whether administrative or project related, while maintaining a successful level of completion in their own work

Ability to work in a fast-paced, Team-based, Customer service-oriented environment

Preferred

AWS Cloud ETL tools such as Glue, Athena, HUDI, CloudWatch, PySpark, Python, Redshift

On-prem ETL tools such as AbInition and Teradata

Java

Ability to lead a team of seasoned Cloud ETL Developers

Benefits

Fly for free, as a privilege, on any open seat on all Southwest flights (your eligible dependents too)

Southwest will help fund your 401(k) retirement savings with Company contributions up to 9.3% of your eligible earnings

Potential for annual ProfitSharing contribution in the Southwest Retirement Savings Plan- when Southwest profits, you profit

Competitive health insurance for you and your eligible dependents (including pets)

Southwest offers health plan coverage options that start from the very first day of employment. You will have 30 days to select and enroll in your health plan with coverage retroactively available to your first day of employment.