About the role
About FlightSafety International
FlightSafety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.
Purpose of Position
Engineering Manager, Custom Application Platform leads custom application development team of eight in support of Java/J2EE Enterprise Service Bus running on Kafka/Camel, Flutter based user interface platform, and the Domain Services Framework. People leader of approximately eight developers and testers. Great opportunity to lead the modernization and standardization of leading-edge frameworks.
Tasks and Responsibilities
Lead, coach, and develop engineering and quality teams using servant-leadership principle to drive business value through the strategic use of custom application development.
Coach and lead your Agile Delivery team to Improve delivery quality, automation, observability, secure CI/CD practices, and engineering feedback loops.
As an application and domain owner, develop and maintain strong business partner relationships
Establish and manage to your annual budget while maintaining a sustainable pace for your team
Define and manage the Platform Services strategic technology roadmap
Partner effectively with Domain Product Leads, your Delivery Lead (Scrum master), the Enterprise Architect, and InfoSec leaders
Lead your team’s operations and break fix activities
Facilitate 24x7 on-call support, participate in after-hours rotation as needed
Prioritize and manage workload, issues, and risks
Limited travel when required
Minimum Education
•Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience
Minimum Experience
5+ years of experience leading Agile software engineering teams, more than one at a time for at…