DOJO Coach

Only W2

Hybrid role

Top 3 to 5 skillsets / years of experience: • bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience • 4+ years of relevant work experience in an agile environment • Ability to scrutinize provided architectures and suggest optimizations for deployment and minimizing the cost of change. • Past experience coaching or mentoring others, in any context. • Understands and practice different coaching stances. Surrounding team/key projects: Will be working with all products with in commercial and operation providing technical coaching.

What youll do

• As noted above this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions and certainly non-essential job functions that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so observing of course any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.
• Coach teams in our immersive dojo / coaching space the Client Hangar -
• Serve as a go-to expert on modern technology architecture engineering and DevOps practices. -
• Work with technical teams and leadership to influence and support the engineering culture at American Airlines
• Collaborate with product teams on reaching the next level of customer delivery.
• Be a mentor and get hands-on with software teams including engineers and architects on learning and applying new ways to solve problems.
• Lead large pairing / mobbing sessions to maximize learning while narrowing focus.
• Design and develop facilitator-led materials related to modern engineering practices or ways of working.
• Bring your real-world software engineering experience to the enablement organization to help build a viable community of technical coaches and practitioners throughout the enterprise.
• Embed with teams to learn their environment and behaviors as a precursor to designing impactful coaching interventions.
• Develop and implement coaching interventions for teams including software engineers and architects
• Exemplify and demonstrate preferred team behaviors and embody the desired culture. That means its important also to professionally address undesirable behaviors if they should arise.
• Contribute to the developer experience platform that removes organization friction from the continuous delivery of value.
• All youll need for success.

Minimum Qualifications- Education Prior Job Experience

• Bachelors degree in computer science or related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 4 years of relevant work experience in an agile environment
• Demonstrated expertise in at least one object-oriented language.
• Previous experience supporting high performing Agile / DevOps teams.
• Past experience coaching or mentoring others in any context.
• Practical use of Test-Driven Development TDD to design non-trivial systems.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Expertise in Agile methodologies like Extreme Programming Kanban or Scrum
• Working experience deploying and supporting business-critical Internet scale distributed systems or high-volume client/server systems
• Ability to scrutinize provided architectures and suggest optimizations for deployment and minimizing the cost of change.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education Prior Job Experience - Experience building continuous integration/deployment pipelines.

Experience with any of the following:

• The Testing Pyramid and how to effectively apply it o Multi-threading and concurrency o Debugging performance profiling and optimization o Object-oriented and service-oriented application development patterns
• Adept and comfortable communicating with team members and external business stakeholders of all levels
• Demonstrated ability to find creative ways of improving and simplifying solutions systems and processes without getting bogged down in blockers or bottlenecks.

Skills Licenses Certifications

• Proficiency with the following technologies:
• Programming Languages: Java Python C# Javascript/Typescript
• Frameworks: Spring/SpringBoot FastAPI
• Front End Technologies: Angular/React
• Deployment Technologies: Kubernetes Docker
• Source Control: GitHub Azure DevOps
• CICD: GitHub Actions Azure DevOps
• Data management: PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis
• Integration/APIs Technologies: Kafka REST GraphQL
• Cloud Providers such as Azure and AWS
• Test Automation: Selenium TestNG Postman SonarQube Cypress JUnit/NUnit/PyTest Cucumber Playwright Wiremock/Mockito/Moq
• Ability to optimize solutions for performance resiliency and reliability while maintaining an eye toward simplicity.
• Ability to concisely convey ideas verbally in writing in code and in diagrams.
• Proficiency in object-oriented design techniques and principles
• Proficiency in Agile frameworks and methodologies
• Proficiency in DevOps Toolchain