Technical Lead, Software Development

About Sun Country Airlines

We're not your average airline. We're agile, resilient, and full of unique opportunity. Here, you can grow as part of an ambitious team that safely and collectively supports each other, our travelers, and our community. Together, we're making travel more attainable. With more than 40 years of Minnesota roots, we're a unique hybrid low-cost carrier offering diverse services including scheduled flights to destinations across the U.S., Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean, as well as charter and cargo operations around the world. At Sun Country, you'll be part of a growing airline, and an enthusiastic team focused on connecting our community with their favorite people and places.

Sun Country Airlines provides the resources and support our employees need to succeed. Besides working at a exciting and growing company, as an Technical Lead, Software Development you'll enjoy these benefits and more:

• Comprehensive benefit package including dental and vision
• PPO and high deductible health plans
• Health savings account and Flexible Spending Account
• Starting day one free standby and discounted travel privileges for employees, family, & friends
• 401(k) match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program including counseling for employees and their family
• Fitness incentive and Stop Smoking Support

Technical Lead, Software Development Overview:

The Technical Lead, Software Development is responsible for ensuring that the development team has appropriate technical direction and guidance to ensure success. They provide technical oversight for development efforts, ensuring outcomes that align to commercial , operational, and technical expectations. They work in advance of the development roadmap conducting technical investigations for upcoming projects, documenting approach, design and associated application changes. Acting as an agent of collaboration and innovation within the development team and Information Technology division is a key attribute of this position. This role also involves hands-on development as needed, leading code review, mentoring of the development team, and ensuring alignment with project outcomes and timelines.

This position offers the opportunity to work on diverse projects, solve complex issues, and contribute to the development of innovative software solutions.

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Partner with Product Owners, Project Managers, and other business stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions
• Conduct technical investigations for new projects or features, identifying potential challenges.
• Document technical approaches, application changes, and designs.
• Collaborate with the application architect on larger efforts to develop or align with existing design patterns.
• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing and deployment.
• Provide daily technical guidance and mentoring to the development team, fostering growth and technical excellence.
• Perform hands-on development.
• Lead the PR process, review code, and ensure adherence to best practices and standards.
• Act as the technical lead on projects, ensuring workstreams align with project or feature outcomes and timelines.
• Maintain a stable and available environment following standard procedures for testing and deployment, including application support and participation in on-call rotations.
• Collaborate with development team and other IT team members to drive innovation, share knowledge, review code, and resolve technical challenges.
• Stay up to date with the latest technologies, tools, and best practices in software development.
• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and optimization, including software development practices
• Adhere to and promote best practices, coding standards, and security policies.
• Participate in agile ceremonies supporting the software development lifecycle.
• Remain current with the latest Sun Country IT system/services/applications information, changes, and updates.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in software development, with demonstrated leadership skills and progressively increasing responsibilities, including but not limited to roles such as development lead.
• Proficiency in technical stack defined for job area. Will vary for Commercial IT, Operational IT or Analytics and will be elaborated for specific job postings.
• 5+ years with cloud computing platforms
• Expertise with CI/CD, version control systems, testing frameworks and/or testing best practices
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to conduct technical investigations
• Experience leading projects from start to finish
• Excellent documentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical approaches and designs
• Experience collaborating with architects and developing design patterns
• Experience mentoring or supervising others
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills and a self-motivated attitude, with the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
• Highly detail-oriented

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
• Experience in travel or aviation-related industry

Compensation:

$120,000.00-140,000.00. This is the base compensation hiring range for this role.

Classification:

Full-time, Exempt

Working Location:

Hybrid - Minneapolis, MN

Supervisory Responsibility:

Overseeing developers that are a mix of internal employees and contractors.

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands or finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

AAP/EEO Statement:

It is the policy of Sun Country Airlines to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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