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Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.\nAir Canada is undertaking an ambitious workforce and engineering transformation to fundamentally change how software is designed, built, and delivered across the enterprise. A cornerstone of this transformation is the adoption of AI-first engineering practices, modern delivery models, and agentic tooling that materially improve developer productivity, speed to market, and operational outcomes.\nThe Principal Tech Lead will play a foundational role in the success of Air Canada’s IDD workforce transformation, with direct accountability for enabling and sustaining the cost reduction commitments tied to this initiative. By redefining engineering ways of working and embedding intelligent automation across the software development lifecycle, this role will help ensure that efficiency gains are real, measurable, and scalable.\nAs a senior, hands-on technical leader, the Principal Tech Lead will shape and operationalize these new practices across Air Canada’s Software and Platform Development teams. Working closely with the Senior Management Team, this role will translate transformation strategy into day-to-day engineering execution across customer, operations, and corporate domains-ensuring adoption, consistency, and long-term impact.\nResponsibilities:\nAI-First Engineering & Technical Leadership\nLead by example in the adoption of AI-first and agentic engineering practices, embedding intelligent automation across the software development lifecycle.\nAct as a technical authority and practitioner, guiding teams on how to effectively use AI-enabled development tools for design, coding, testing, deployment, and operations.\nPrototype, evaluate, and operationalize emerging tools and frameworks that enhance developer productivity and delivery efficiency.\nHands-On Technical Direction\nProvide day-to-day technical leadership across multiple engineering teams, influencing design decisions and implementation approaches.\nDefine and socialize technical standards, reference 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Prior to their start date, candidates will also need to provide proof of their eligibility to work in the country of interest.\nLinguistic Requirements\nBased on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.\nDiversity and Inclusion\nAir Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.\nAir Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7979,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":15,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Air Transport","Commercial Aviation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-14T02:40:37Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"CA","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"Positions approved through LMIA in 12 months: 1","filings_12m":1,"filings_prev_12m":2,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Global Talent Stream","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-12T07:36:15+00:00","sources":["ESDC: employers issued a positive LMIA"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":7,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-14T05:01:11Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/air-canada-principal-technical-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/air-canada-principal-technical-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-14T05:01:11Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":8305,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":52029},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=52029"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fair-canada-principal-technical-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fair-canada-principal-technical-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fair-canada-principal-technical-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/air-canada-principal-technical-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fair-canada-principal-technical-lead"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4298902}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"aircanada.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4298902},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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