Software Engineer III: Mainframe - Airlines Reporting Corporation

About The Role::

It's a great time to join us at Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC)! ARC accelerates the growth of global air travel by delivering forward-looking travel data, flexible distribution services and other innovative industry solutions. We are a leading travel intelligence company with the world’s largest, most comprehensive global airline ticket dataset, including more than 15 billion passenger flights. By working here, you can contribute to solutions and expertise that strengthen economies and enrich lives. We think big, embrace challenges and explore new ideas to lead the way for the travel industry.

 

ARC is looking for a Software Engineer III to join the team! As a Software Engineer III, you will provide product teams with software development, solutions, designs, and product delivery support for the full product stack with an eye for new and innovative features to enhance our products.  You will continuously improve engineering practices utilizing cloud native architectures and frameworks. Collaboration with Product Owner and Solution Architects.

What You'll Get to Do::

1. Drive software development by providing engineering solutions to deliver the optimal product. Mentor other engineers. Provide overall technical leadership to smaller working teams as needed. Articulate the full end to end architecture view of the product.
2. Collaborate with product owners and business SMEs to analyze business needs and provide a supportable and sustainable engineered solution. Ensure that the overall technical solution is aligned with the business needs.
3. Drive the creation and modifications of the product portfolio components, identify, and engage all technical resources necessary to contribute to the solution. Ensure the solution is consistent with ARC architecture, design, and development standards.
4. Develop applications using industry best practices. Adjust and adopt new methodologies that provide the business with increased flexibility and agility.
5. Stay current with latest development tools, technology ideas, patterns, and methodologies; share knowledge by clearly articulating results and ideas to key stakeholders.

You'll Bring These Qualifications::

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred, equivalent experience considered.
• 5+ years of application programming in both front-end User Interfaces, server-side application, and database queries.
• 5+ years of experience with full-cycle application development (Full SDLC experience: design, development, delivery, etc.).
• 3+ years with Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• 5+ years of experience implementing mainframe applications using but not limited to:
  • COBOL, JCL, CA7 scheduler, JCL Plus, Natural, REXX
  • Oracle, Teradata, Adabas.
  • SFT, File master, $AVRS.
• Good to have Cloud-Based Solutions/Technologies (AWS or other).
  • AWS developer environment including, but not limited to, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB.
  • Implementation of modern application and infrastructure design patterns, including micro-services and containers, disposable, reactive, stateless, and distributed patterns.
  • Open-source technologies include, but are not limited to, NodeJS/Python/Java, and React.
• Proven ability to lead a group through the development process and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience leading small technical teams to mentor and guide multiple-disciplined (full stack) technical teams.
• Ability to discover and define functional requirements and to transform them into technical requirements and solution definition.
• Ability to influence technology strategy and best practices across peer and leadership groups to support an agile development culture.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and ability to communicate with internal and external customers and all levels of management, including communicating technical information to non-technical audiences.
• Intellectual solid curiosity to continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving business and market challenges.
• A strong passion for supporting peers to help meet timelines on larger projects.

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What We Can Offer You::

• Joining ARC means joining a team that is motivated, diverse, creative, collaborative and solutions-oriented. We think big, embrace challenges, and explore new ideas to lead the way for the travel industry.
• Our employees value the hands-on learning and professional development opportunities that allow them to expand their skills and grow their career in new, dynamic ways.
• ARC offers WorkFlex. WorkFlex is ARC’s hybrid work program which offers eligible employees the flexibility to work from home while also requiring in office workdays throughout the year to foster collaboration and connection throughout the organization. We’ve designed WorkFlex to enable employees to succeed and thrive while maintaining strong connections to one another and ARC - both of which are critical to our shared success.
• We offer a highly competitive, comprehensive benefits package so you can worry less and focus on what truly matters.
• By joining ARC, you will partner with top minds in the industry as we use data and technology to innovate how the world travels.

EOE M/F/D/V Females and Minorities Encouraged to Apply