Senior Software Developer Engineer IT - Analytical Data Platforms & Architecture

At Hawaiian Airlines, we are all about welcoming our guests with Hawaiian hospitality and aloha, and taking care of our people, our home, and the communities we serve.
Join our 'ohanaand be a part of an exciting team of professionals dedicated to serving ourkama'?inaand introducing our islands to the world!

Position Summary

The IT - Shared Services, Analytics Platform & Architecture group is responsible for providing high-availability of access & performance to our organization's analytical data, and modeling & enriching it for effortless consumption by our edge systems and end users.
We partner with stakeholders to continuously assess data processes and tools, evaluate their usage and impact, and provide data governance and quality.
We strive to transform Hawaiian Airlines to a data-focused, self-service business intelligence model with governed data management, built atop a modern analytics platform comprised of centralized cloud-based data and a powerful ecosystem of cloud-based tools.

Data and Common Services Software Development Engineers (SDEs) are the main contributors to the code powering our data analytics platform.
SDEs are Data Engineers working with the Solution Architect's designs to develop and maintain systems and processes that take in raw data and produce high-quality, consistent information that supports downstream use cases such as analysis and machine learning, that meets our standards for quality, maintainability, performance and security, and ensure they are implemented by the team through code reviews.

A Data and Common Services SDE works with Senior SDEs to provide direction and mentorship to other SDEs.
SDEs are expert coders, make implementation design decisions and able to solve complex problems under pressure within the systems integration space.
They ensure comprehensive unit, integration, performance and load tests are implemented, and are able to accurately estimate their time and effort to solve an issue and be an integral part of an agile work team.

Software Developer Engineers write and configure code to manage the data engineering lifecycle.
They generally come from Computer Science or Information Systems backgrounds.

The Software Developer Engineer family contains a wide array of individuals and skills so that the breadth of coding languages is encompassed (e.g.
C, C#, C+, JAVA, Ruby, Python, etc.).
This group creates the software and technical solutions that run the company.
They are responsible to understand business requirements, comprehend the technical design for the solution, conceive and write detailed software implementations/code, as well as ensure their solutions adhere to the security, logging, error handling, and performance specifications.

More senior Software Developer Engineers have acquired deep technical expertise as well as communication (oral and written), facilitation, and architecture skills.
Having this, they are key partners with Business Analysts to consult with the business about technical possibilities and futures.
Additionally, they may be required to supervise less experienced software engineers.

This position has the opportunity to work out of Honolulu, Hawaii or Tempe, Arizona.

Key Responsibilities

• Write, configure and develop software and code-driven solutions for high complexity business problems according to user specifications
• Decompose business requirements and translate them into detailed design specifications and code
• Build solutions that utilize the enterprise monitoring/logging frameworks
• Participate and engage with the appropriate matrix areas for the construction and delivery of the solution
• Leads detailed code-reviews in a constructive manner
• Ensure that coding solutions are flexible, supportable, and requires minimal maintenance
• Promote adherence to standards and the common way (Software Development Life Cycle)
• Analyze and resolve operational and production problems of high complexity, including researching and recommending alternative actions for problem resolution, taking timely action and escalating as required
• Demonstrate advanced understanding of business processes being supported by assigned system(s) and across multiple business customers
• Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, influence technical designs and recommend process or system enhancements to business customers
• Proactively contribute to the design of new solutions (new projects, enhancements, etc.
  )
• Provide leadership for system and acceptance testing
• Test and implement systems and enhancements using techniques that preserve system integrity
• Ensure systems are functionally appropriate, technically sound and integrated
• Develop time estimates for project schedules, monitor progress and provide accurate and timely reports
• Plan and manage project activities within allocated resources
• Work across projects to synchronize data analysis efforts and deliverables
• Support the organization's project management policy, practice and methodology
• Maintain focus on internal and external customer requirements
• Provide leadership as a communications liaison between the business customer and the technology development and support groups
• Provide leadership in key interactions with business customers to define, analyze, and deliver customer requirements
• Negotiate and manage team relationships at project level
• Teach technical topics to junior and other senior members of the staff
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor's Degree (in lieu of degree - 9 years of work experience in an IT environment)
• 5 years of work experience in Information Technology environment
• Ability to serve as top Technician/Subject Matter Expert within their local IT team
• Prior experience leading multiple simultaneous development efforts and work teams
• Advanced knowledge of software development practice, concepts, technology and methodology obtained through formal training, and work experience
• Advanced knowledge of required programming languages
• Proficient in the required technologies
• Advanced knowledge of technical/business environment
• Understanding of the following:
  
  
  • impact of design decisions to the computer (performance, etc.
    )
  • technical behavior of the underlying operating system
  • technical behavior of the compiler and tools
  • ALL functional aspects of the tools and development environment
  • functional and technical behavior of the middleware and data layers
  • Dev/Ops processes, tools, and deployment capabilities
  • packaging and distribution of solutions
  • operations/run requirements
• Ability to provide leadership within a specific technology area or across multiple technology areas, to complete root-cause analysis, design solutions, write code, perform testing, provide documentation, and implement large/multiple development projects that carry a high risk to the organization
• Excellent partnering, communication, and negotiation skills so as to effectively serve as a lead liaiso.