Specialist, Digital Development

**Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.**

This position will be reporting to the Manager, Digital Development, responsible for Air Canada Crew IT.

**Responsibilities**:

- Create detailed development patterns and reviews across relevant stakeholders to ensure alignment to the overall business needs including technology stack, solution architecture, security requirements and performance testing documents
- Analyze, document and optimize the overall development patterns by developing design principles, models, plans, internal standards, budgets, and processes aligned on industry best practices
- Participate in the selection of relevant technologies and products when solicited and actively identify products and technologies to advance the development practices and end solutions.
- Present and socialize proposed solutions to technical boards during review sessions as well as articulate and communicate options to audiences with limited expertise related to the selected technology
- Support implementation processes in association with internal and external development teams, participate in project-related activities and enforces guidelines and standards that production teams use to help guide their work
- Assume responsibility for the quality of the implemented solution and its adherence to technology strategies, patterns, standards, best practices, and enterprise architectural standards.
- Serve as the primary interface with architecture, and provide technical leadership to development teams, and all internal and external teams involved in the implementation process.
- Create development patterns and coding guidelines that describe and explain solutions attributes and associated benefits and maintain documentation in collaboration with delivery teams.
- Support the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of solution management methodologies, including obtaining feedback after the solution has been implemented.
- Build standard patterns for different business use cases and projects.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (Information Technology, Engineering). An advanced degree in a related area, an asset.
- Minimum of 10 years of IT experience, of which minimum 5 as a solution Experience working with integrated Enterprise systems
- 5+ years of full-stack software development experience and strong expertise using Angular, React, Javascript; or Node.js, AWS serverless technologies (Lambda/DynamoDB/API,
- Gateway/Messaging/RDS) using Azure/AWS DevOps in an Agile development environment.
- Ability to work across multiple technical teams to set direction and priority
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team while demonstrating initiative and using good business acumen
- Expertise with business rules engine concepts.
- Expertise in APIs, web services concepts and standards.
- Expertise in JSON, XML, XML Schema, XSL, various XML standards and web services.
- Experience in designing and implementing large server software with particular attention to security, scalability, and high performance.
- Knowledge and experience with RDBMSs (DB2, MySQL, MS SQL Server, etc.)
- Experience working within multidisciplinary and collaborative environments
- Team player with effective interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate punctuality and dependability to support overall team success in a fast-paced environment.

**Conditions of Employment**:
**Linguistic Requirements**

**Diversity and Inclusion**

Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.