Sr. Developer, Resiliency (Phoenix)

Sr. Developer, Resiliency

Employment Type: Contract Location Type: Hybrid Location: Phoenix, AZ Duration: Through December 31, 2025 (potential to extend/renew)

Position Overview

We are seeking a Sr. Developer, Resiliency to join a diverse, high-performing team focused on delivering unrivaled digital products for an airline client. This role is crucial in driving a more reliable and profitable airline through enhanced product resilience.

About Us

We are a team of analysts, creators, designers, doers, dreamers, explorers, geeks, hipsters, leaders, learners, renegades, seekers, strategists, and visionaries. We fundamentally believe that we are better together and are dedicated to crafting a better future by shaping the future of empowered product teams.

Responsibilities

• Writes, tests, and documents technical work products (e.g., code, scripts, processes) according to organizational standards and practices.
• Devotes time to raising the quality and craftsmanship of products and systems.
• Conducts root cause analysis to identify domain-level problems and prescribes action items to mitigate.
• Designs self-contained systems within a team's domain and leads implementations of significant capabilities in existing systems.
• Coaches team members in the execution of techniques to improve reliability, resiliency, security, and performance.
• Decomposes intricate and interconnected designs into implementations that can be effectively built and maintained by less experienced engineers.
• Anticipates trouble areas in systems under development and guides the team in instrumentation practices to ensure observability and supportability.
• Defines test suites and instrumentation that ensures targets for latency and availability are being consistently met in production.
• Leads through example by prioritizing the closure of open vulnerabilities.
• Evaluates potential attack surfaces in systems under development, identifies best practices to mitigate, and guides teams in their implementation.
• Leads team in the identification of small batches of work to deliver the highest value quickly.
• Ensures reuse is a first-class consideration in all team implementations and is a passionate advocate for broad reusability.
• Formally mentors teammates and helps guide them to and along needed learning journeys.
• Observes their environment and identifies opportunities for introducing new approaches to problems.

Key Responsibilities (PowerBI Focus)

• Update existing Power BI reports.
• Create new responsive, high-performance Power BI reports.
• Collaborate in Agile/Scrum teams, using TDD/BDD and iterative development.
• Troubleshoot Power BI issues.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience as a developer in a technology organization.
• 3+ years with Power BI.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and facilitation skills.

Language & Communication Skills

• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and written with all levels within the organization.
• Ability to explain technical concepts and adjust messaging based on the audience, including non-technical groups.
• Ability to influence through outstanding interpersonal skills, collaboration, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work well within a team environment, as well as independently.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Python.
• Experience with API integration (REST/GraphQL) and error handling.

Company Culture & Benefits

We are an organization that:

• Embraces work-life balance – our employees’ well-being remains a top priority.
• Promotes a culture of learning and advocacy across the globe – diversity will enable us to strengthen our impact.
• Offers a comprehensive benefits package effective Day 1, including health, vision, & dental insurance, FSAs, discounts on pet insurance, PTO, paid holidays, and more.

Application Instructions

• This is a contract, hybrid position located in Phoenix, AZ (onsite 3 days per week).