The posting
Role Overview
The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for delivering and managing SIA's Flight planning products through technical excellence, infrastructure engineering, and DevOps practices. This role orchestrates end-to-end delivery from planning through production. Combine servant leadership, project governance, and hands-on DevOps to ship secure, reliable, and cost-effective applications. Align product, engineering, security, and vendors to deliver measurable outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
•Agile delivery
•Facilitate stand-ups, planning, reviews, retros; enforce DoR/DoD.
•Drive backlog readiness with POs; story mapping, sizing, capacity/velocity tracking.
•Remove impediments; manage dependencies across squads; coach Agile/Lean practices.
•Project management
•Define scope, milestones, timelines, budget, and resourcing; maintain integrated plans.
•Run RAID management, change control/CAB/PGSC, and executive/status reporting.
•Coordinate vendors/SOWs; manage regulatory/compliance deliverables and audits.
•Application delivery
•Build/maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins/GitHub); promote trunk-based development and quality gates.
•Environment management (dev/test/UAT/prod), secrets/config, and access control.
•Release engineering: runbooks, blue/green/canary, feature flags; post-release validation.
•Security and quality: secrets scanning, policy gates; support test automation and performance testing.
•Observability/operations: logging/metrics/tracing, SLOs/alerts, incident response, PIRs; cost and capacity optimization.
•Data/AI
•Orchestrate agentic AI integrations; govern model usage/costs; ensure privacy and security controls; define KPIs for AI features.
•People and enablement
•Mentor teams, maintain documentation/runbooks; lead knowledge-sharing.
Stakeholder & Vendor Management
- Collaborate with SIA Infrastructure teams, Business Units (Flight Ops, TMM),and external OEMs
- Manage vendor relationships and technical interfaces with SIA’s internal systems
- Translate business needs into technical specifications and measurable acceptance criteria
**Qualifications & Experience:**
•5–10+ years across Scrum Master/PM and DevOps/ADE roles delivering cloud-native systems.
•Minimum 2 years of experience with Airlines domain (preferred)
•Strong stakeholder management, communication, and servant-leadership skills.
•Technical depth in:
•Git and CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab/Azure DevOps)
•Cloud and containers (AWS/Azure/GCP)
•Monitoring/observability (CloudWatch) and security tooling (SonarQube)
•Networking/OS/database fundamentals
•Certifications: CSM/PSM
•Familiar with Gen AI SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and GitHub Copilot
•JIRA/Confluence, Familiar with governance and change processes
•Proven track record in delivering complex cloud and on-premises solutions
•Experience managing vendor relationships and technical integrations
•Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects and serve as subject matter expert
Competencies:
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management abilities
- Self-motivated with a positive, can-do attitude
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams and external partners
- Strong technical documentation and communication skills



