Senior Technical Product Engineer

Every year, nearly 200 million travelers trust our client to get them where they're going. Take your career to new heights by working for this longstanding leader in air travel that services more worldwide destinations than any other airline.

We are looking for a Sr. Technical Product Engineer to join our team for a 12 month contract in Atlanta, GA or Minneapolis, MN. 

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelors Degree
• Experience developing requirements and test scenarios for automated test suites for APIs
• Demonstrated experience with Agile or other rapid application development methods
• Demonstrate technical expertise to apply relevant technical processes to appropriate business needs
• Effectively and professionally communicate with management, staff and customers as well as demonstrate sound judgment/reasoning skills
• Ability to work independently to achieve exceptional results
• To deliver quality work on time and translate planning into action by following applicable established procedures or methodologies

Desired Skills & Experience

• Strong communication, interpersonal skills, customer service skills, customer focus
• 3 - 5 years of project coordination and previous airline business experience is preferred
• Works well within tight deadlines (able to prioritize)
• Must be able to prioritize work on multiple project teams, with the overall goal of satisfying all deployment needs and effectively supporting diverse clients

What You Will Be Doing

• Gathering, developing, coordinating, and maintaining business requirements for various projects and/or systems from initial phase to final implementation, assuring requirements meet standards; troubleshooting, coordinating, and maintaining production systems/programs/applications; assisting in maintenance and communication of project status reports and tracking
• Eliciting requirements from business owners for projects and then performing the necessary analysis and documentation to ensure the changes are made
• Work with Business and IT teams to discover and identify APIs, document requirements for APIs and API consumers, develop test cases for automated test suites, and develop documentation.
• Provide efficient project processes and deliverables to shorten the project life cycle, where applicable
• Works with application support and development team to fix software bugs and escalated issues
• Lead resolution to issues with interfacing systems built on different technologies
• Facilitate and Participate in regular project status reviews
• Convert high-level User Requirements into executable, detailed User Stories to enable development
• Create and maintain the product backlog
• Conduct planning sessions with the teams to prioritize work in upcoming sprints
• Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles
• Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority
• Experience in API practice/program at a large organization
• Strong experience in discovery, identification, and documentation of APIs
• Ability to work with multiple IT and business teams to gather and document API requirements
• Engage directly and daily with delivery teams to execute the project
• Ensure product acceptance and readiness at key phases of the delivery cycle
•  Develop communication materials and lead communication efforts around the product, priorities and future roadmaps
• Attend and lead design sessions with the product team

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.