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• The Sr Principal Architect, Cybersecurity plays a critical role in supporting our corporate goal of reliability by designing and implementing robust security architectures and policies. By ensuring that security is integrated early into the development process and aligns with industry best practices and emerging trends, the security architect helps to fortify the companys systems against potential threats, thereby contributing to the overall reliability and resilience of its operations.
• This role is a part of the Cybersecurity team within the Technology group

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.

• Lead the evolution of current cyber technical strategies to fully embrace and secure American Airlines’ Cloud first, DevOps enabled direction.
• Continue to shift security left into the application space and increase secure development capabilities and practices.
• Design and define security architectures and policies, as well as automate them in a way that fits naturally with how application developers work.
• Analyze spanet, understand emerging trends, shape our security strategy to apply these new modern trends into the technical ecosystem.
• Key influencer in the recruiting of technical cyber talent.
• Lead and actively represent American Airlines in the Aviation – Information Sharing and Analysis Centers’ (A-ISAC) committees and influence industry direction.
• Provide expert Cybersecurity architecture viewpoints for all assigned strategies within enterprise level initiatives.
• Work hand in hand with Cybersecurity program management to ensure alignment with strategy and vision.
• Maintain regular engagement and proactive partnership with technology teams to ensure assigned strategies align with business and technical needs, requirements, and constraints.
• Support the Cyber Engagement activities by being an active participant in the Cyber Ninja outreach efforts, Cyber Policy Governance efforts, and Cybersecurity consulting activities.
• Provide expert input into the collective Cybersecurity strategy to ensure that future security investments are aligned appropriately when considering key priorities such as business and cyber risk and the evolving threat landscape.
• Partner with business and technology to provide expert security guidance into design and implementation of enterprise security capabilities.
• Explore emerging technologies/practices and develops prototypes and concepts/ideas with little or no guidance; incorporates these into architectural solution when appropriate.
• Work in an open, collaborative, trusting and thought-provoking environment, one that encourages diversity of thoughtful and creative solutions; one that supports experimentation with a fall forward culture.

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelors in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or equivalent experience
• 7 years of application systems development experience
• 5 years architectural and design experience

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• 10 years of cybersecurity strategy planning and security architecture design experience
• Demonstrated relevant security expertise in designing security solutions for a mix of technology areas, with a focus on cloud and application security
• 5 years of technical or team leadership experience
• 2+ years Cloud architecture or development experiences in IBM Public and Azure
• 2+ years experience in Agile methodology
• 2+ years experience in DevOps deployment processes
• Airline industry experience and multiple domain knowledges, such as passenger reservation, customer experience, flight operations, scheduling, yield management and pricing, codeshare alliances, merchandizing, distribution etc.

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Background in Enterprise/Solutions Architecture or software engineering
• Command of architecture, design patterns and business processes
• Mastery of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Knowledge of industry wide technology trends and best practices
• Expertise in working in in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals, and passionate about building an innovative culture
• Experienced in technology transformations and migration to one or more Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP or OCI
• Strong technical leader able to drive to outcomes and mentor delivery teams
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) tools and platforms
• Hands-on experience with containers and container orchestration platforms (aka Docker & Kubernetes)
• Expertise in one or more cloud native relational databases such as MySql, PostgreSql and NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and MongoDB highly desired
• Demonstrated track record in building platforms and tools that accelerate technology transformations
• Expertise with databases and migration to/from enterprise class databases highly desired

Experience with Ubuntu is a plus

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:

• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.

Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.