{"id":2862557,"url":"https://alion.io/job/united-airlines-sr-manager-it-app-dev-loyalty","title":"Sr. Manager - IT App Dev Loyalty","company":{"id":18409,"name":"United Airlines","domain":"united.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/united","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Schema","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":18,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.167,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":8,"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Chicago, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":140600,"max":183108,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":183108},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon EC2","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon ECS","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon EKS","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon S3","optional":false},{"name":"ASP.NET Core","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Lambda","optional":false},{"name":"C#","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"MVC","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-19T16:41:05Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-21","last_verified_at":"2026-10-25T16:59:17Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":6,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":6},"description":"Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using our extensive route network.Come join us to create what’s next. Let’s define tomorrow, together.\nDescription\nSr. Manager - IT App Dev Loyalty (ID: WHQ00026902)\nUnited's Digital Technology team is comprised of many talented individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. Our team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.\nJob Overview and Responsibilities\nThe purpose of the Senior Manager IT, Application Development position is to lead a development team in the continued design and development of Loyalty applications. This position will collaborate extensively with our business partners to design, develop and integrate user interfaces and services that meets the business needs. This position will have a strong focus on AWS cloud, .Net programming skills and SAFe development with the ability to influence innovation within the Loyalty space. The role will emphasize solutions architecture, Agile development, and driving organizational change.\nLead and manage team responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining cloud-based application/s\nLead a portfolio of technology projects to ensure delivery of work requests and projects are within committed budget, on schedule, and the quality of individual projects meets the overall department performance goals.\nManage multiple vendor development teams assigned to projects and core support.\nUnderstand and partner with United business and DT leadership teams along with product SMEs to define the end-state vision, goals, and strategy of the product and create multi-year product development strategy and tactical plans.\nShare knowledge and collaborate to come up with effective and innovative solutions to problems.\nEngage, collaborate and partner with stakeholders, technical and business, to understand business requirements and user expectations, and lead the development of solutions that meet functional and technical requirements.\nAligning with business partners on delivery success criteria and ensuring technology solutions follow architectural standards.\nProvide delivery estimates and business case updates to support overall IT performance metrics, monthly project status reporting and quarterly resource planning review.\nIdentify technical obstacles early and work closely with the team to find creative solutions.\nResponsible for escalating, assisting and follow-through on resolution of issues related to delivery of technology solutions\nEnsure best practices for Agile methodologies are implemented, and continuous improvements are made, as needed.\nEnsure adherence to code scanning and other security protocols are adhered to during development and release. \nEmpower, coach, and develop team members. Promote a culture of learning.\nEstablish team and individual’s goals including performance reviews and career and performance plans.\nPerform short and long-term resources (internal and external) planning to ensure the proper number of resources and right skills are available to meet project goals and schedules.\nAssess and recommend improvements to the organization structure, roles, and responsibilities.\nQualifications\nWhat’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):\nBachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related field. \n5+ years of web or mobile development (ASP.NET, MVC, SQL, API, JavaScript…etc.)\n5 + years of IT and business/industry work experience\n2+ years of hands-on experience with foundational AWS Services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, CloudTrail, CloudFront, Lambda, EKS, ECS, etc.)\n3+ years of software development best practices such as CI/CD, Unit/Integration testing, code reviews\n2+ year of leadership experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders\nRequires advanced technical and business knowledge in software development life cycle, quality assurance, project management and other related disciplines/processes\n2+ years' experience of Agile development\nUnderstanding of system architecture principles, including the ability to design scalable and reliable solutions\nStrong knowledge of Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft NET Core, API, SQL, NoSQL and Design Patterns\n.Net, ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, Visual Studio, ADO\nHands-on experience with foundational AWS Services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, CloudTrail, CloudFront, Lambda, EKS, ECS, etc.)\nExperience supporting and maintaining vendor managed applications\nExceptional at triage or analysis of situations for production support\nExcel at on time delivery without minimal supervision\nLeadership experience and the ability to guide and inspire a team. \nA mindset for continuous learning and staying updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices\nAdvanced technical and business knowledge in software development life cycle, quality assurance, project management and other related disciplines/processes\nWell versed in Agile/SAFe development and requirements management processes.\nMust be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship\nSuccessful completion of interview required to meet job qualification\nReliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position\nWhat will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):\nAirline Experience is a plus\n\nExperience using AI and AI tools to enhance application development, technical decision-making, team productivity, and problem-solving is a plus.\nAWS certification\nSAFe experience\nPractical experience in developing and architecting highly integrated, high user base systems is highly valued. \nLeadership experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders\nThe base pay range for this role is $140,600.00 to $183,108.00.\nThe base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.\nYou may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.\nUnited Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request an accommodation, contact ","description_format":"text","description_chars":7064,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":2,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Air Transport","Commercial Aviation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-19T16:41:05Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 18 · green card filings: 1","filings_12m":18,"filings_prev_12m":8,"green_card_filings_12m":1,"median_offered_wage_usd":128289,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":68,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.865,"p_room":0.788,"age_days":6,"expected_fill_days":8,"reasons":["conf:12","velocity","win:late"],"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":183108,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/united-airlines-sr-manager-it-app-dev-loyalty","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/united-airlines-sr-manager-it-app-dev-loyalty.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-26T13:26:04Z","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":18661,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-27T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"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":18409},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=18409"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Funited-airlines-sr-manager-it-app-dev-loyalty"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"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%2Funited-airlines-sr-manager-it-app-dev-loyalty"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"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%2Funited-airlines-sr-manager-it-app-dev-loyalty"},{"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/united-airlines-sr-manager-it-app-dev-loyalty\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Funited-airlines-sr-manager-it-app-dev-loyalty"}]}