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Associate Manager Software Development
Job Title: Associate Manager Software Development
Position type: Permanent
Location: Bogota, Colombia
Job ID: R27127
Job family: Software Development
About Your Business Area/Department:
Travel Unit – Airlines Engineering - Digital Competency Center
Our Digital Lab participates developing in NewGen UI/UX experience for the website of one of the biggest Airline customers of North America.

YOUR VISION, OUR PLATFORM. LET’S BUILD & LEAD SOMETHING GREAT!

The E-commerce airline websites are crucial for airlines as they enable global consumer reach, streamline bookings, and enhance operational efficiency, ultimately improving customer experience and driving revenues.
We are looking for a Development Manager with good technical background and people management skills to lead our Digital Scrum team in Bogota.
The candidate will be leading the Scrum team working for developing & maintaining the airline web site. The candidate will work on the day-to-day with the developers, the Product Owner, and the Scrum Master and other internal and client side stakeholders in a fast-paced and highly customer-facing agile environment.

Educational qualification & Work experience:

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science (or similar), or relevant work experience.
• Relevant Work Experience: 12+ years of experience or equivalent knowledge in a software development/engineering role.
• 3+ years experience in Team/People Management role.
• Excellent soft skills
• Strong planning, communication, and organization, Problem-solving, Team working and leadership skills.
• Creative solving of technical problems – to translate technical requirements, to propose scalable designs and work with stakeholders & technical leaders across the competency center
• Clear communicator (written and verbal) – to communicate with customers, engineers, stakeholders across the
• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables – Estimation, prioritization, and budgeting with diligence
• Ability to think abstract – to ensure ability to not conform to the norm. Ask the right questions to critically assess and improve current architectures and evolve them with contemporary technologie

Technical skills and relevant experience:

• Good experience/knowledge in Web technologies like Angular, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, RxJS, ngRX, Bootstrap.
• Understanding of SOAP/REST/GraphQL web services & standards.
• Experience with Test Driven Development within a continuous Integration environment.
• Knowledge on Continuous integration tools: Jenkins, SonarQube, BitBucket.
• Good knowledge on Source Control Management (Git / Stash).
• Experience on working in Agile software development such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Kanban, Scrum.
• Good English communication skills is a MUST as this is a customer facing role.
• Knowledge in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
• Experience in cloud based systems

IN THIS ROLE YOU’LL:

Delivery, Customer handling and coordination:

• Work within a fully SAFe agile set-up to coordinate the Development activities for new and existing website applications
• Making sure all work is delivered on time and according to specification and best practices defined by the project team.
• Build and organize team with clear roles and responsibilities in order to meet organizational and project needs.
• Collaborate with all customer side stakeholders to understand their long term road map and come-up with strategies to build/propose internal plan on facilitating the required skillset/resourcing support.
• Strive to build and maintain a very transparent and trustworthy communication channel with client side stakeholders. Actively listen to all customer needs and facilitate required support to deliver greater value.
• With your technical expertise, actively participate in all technical discussions and scrum ceremonies to lead the team in building highly efficient and performant software solutions.
• Solutioning to customer needs, issues, prioritize and ensure delivery. Own the process adherence and agility best practices.

• Escalate, Manage & remediate potential design, production & quality issues immediately to related development team and management as defined in escalation path procedureTake end-to-end responsibility to make sure all deliveries are happening on time for the applications in your portfolio.

Team Management:

• Set individual performance goals, conduct periodic performance reviews and provide continuous feedback.
• Maintain good delegation level which enables you in leveraging the strengths of each team members.
• Constantly review the opportunities for Team’s career growth and take necessary actions through some proposals.
• Work towards finding different ways to up-skill the team in various areas through different paths.
• Keep motivating & inspiring your team members by sharing some success stories from other teams/departments and also by appreciating them for their work on the current project and exhibiting their achievements.

About the ideal candidate:

Educational qualification & Work experience:

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science (or similar), or relevant work experience.
• Relevant Work Experience: 12+ years of experience or equivalent knowledge in a software development/engineering role.
• 3+ years experience in Team/People Management role.
• Excellent soft skills
• Strong planning, communication, and organization, Problem-solving, Team working and leadership skills.
• Creative solving of technical problems – to translate technical requirements, to propose scalable designs and work with stakeholders & technical leaders across the competency center
• Clear communicator (written and verbal) – to communicate with customers, engineers, stakeholders across the
• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables – Estimation, prioritization, and budgeting with diligence
• Ability to think abstract – to ensure ability to not conform to the norm. Ask the right questions to critically assess and improve current architectures and evolve them with contemporary technologies

Technical skills and relevant experience:

• Good experience/knowledge in Web technologies like Angular, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, RxJS, ngRX, Bootstrap.
• Understanding of SOAP/REST/GraphQL web services & standards.
• Experience with Test Driven Development within a continuous Integration environment.
• Knowledge on Continuous integration tools: Jenkins, SonarQube, BitBucket.
• Good knowledge on Source Control Management (Git / Stash).
• Experience on working in Agile software development such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Kanban, Scrum.
• Good English communication skills is a MUST as this is a customer facing role.
• Knowledge in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
• Experience in cloud based systems.

What we can offer you:

• Get rewarded with competitive remuneration, individual and company annual bonus, vacation and holiday paid time off, health insurances and other competitive benefits.
• Work from anywhere: onsite, hybrid or fully remote.
• Professional development to broaden your knowledge and enhance your skills with on-line learning hubs packed with technical and soft skills training that allow you to develop and grow.
• Enter a diverse and inclusive workplace, join one of the world’s top travel technology companies and take on a role that impacts millions of travelers around the globe.