Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.
Join Air Canada—an iconic Canadian brand and North America’s top-ranked airline—as we lead the next wave of digital transformation in aviation. With major IT initiatives underway and a strong commitment to innovation, this is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of travel technology.
We’re looking for a dynamic and experienced Tech Lead with deep expertise in SaaS application development, particularly using Python and/or Rave, to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our Jeppesen Crew applications. This role blends hands-on development with strategic leadership, mentoring developers, and aligning technical execution with long-term business goals.
As a champion of engineering excellence, the Tech Lead fosters a culture of innovation, simplicity, and continuous improvement. You will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining crew planning and day of flight applications that meet the needs of our clients and users. The candidate should be self-driven, highly motivated, innovative, and ready to deliver with our agile development teams.
Let your career take flight by joining a team that’s redefining the digital passenger experience at the forefront of global aviation.
Responsibilities:
Lead the technical design, development, and implementation of Jeppesen applications.
Act as the primary technical point of contact for Jeppesen-related initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and standards.
Collaborate with Product Owners, developers, business administrators and scrum masters to co-create user stories, define acceptance criteria, and balance technical feasibility with business priorities.
Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, backlog grooming, and technical reviews.
Partner with the internal and external development teams to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.
Execute hands-on development and configuration of Jeppesen's crew planning and rostering software using the Rave rule-based modeling language and Python.
Define and evolve technical strategy, including CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps principles, and release automation.
Mentor junior developers, conduct thorough code reviews and evaluate test plans and unit test scripts to uphold quality, reliability, and maintainability standards.
Ensure platform scalability, performance, and security, including data integrity and compliance with privacy regulations.
Evaluate and recommend new Jeppesen features and technologies to enhance platform capabilities.
Manage integration with other enterprise systems and data sources.
Maintain documentation for architecture, design decisions, and technical processes.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across the Jeppesen ecosystem.
Ensure adherence to Air Canada’s SDLC, ITIL, and cybersecurity frameworks.
Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Participate in cross-team initiatives to set technical guidelines and promote consistency across pods and platforms.
Lead post-release activities including debugging, performance tuning, and incident resolution.
Required
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
Minimum 5+ years of experience working with SaaS applications in a technical capacity.
Strong understanding of RDBMSs (Oracle, DB2, MySQL, MS SQL Server, etc.).
Experience providing technical oversight on software development in Visual Studio and understanding of operations research or optimization concepts.
Solid understanding of data security, access controls, and compliance within SaaS applications.
Proficient in the Linux environment.
Experience with Git and other development tools.
Employ a test-driven development methodology, including developing automated test cases, and collaborate in cross-functional teams.
Ability to translate business requirements into scalable and secure technical solutions.
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Strong communication skills with the ability to align technical decisions across teams and explain concepts to non-technical audiences.
Experience working in Agile environments and participating in sprint planning and technical reviews.
Demonstrate punctuality and dependability to support overall team success in a fast-paced environment.
Assets
Familiarity with Jeppesen applications such as Jeppesen Crew Pairing, Jeppesen Manpower Planning and Jeppesen Crew Tracking.
Experience with Jeppesen proprietary rule-based programming language called Rave and Python.
Exposure to complex airline policies and Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs).
Familiarity with AI development tools such Cursor or GitHub Copilot.
Strong communication skills and an interest in the airline business.
Personal Attributes:
Inspires and energizes engineering teams with a high level of enthusiasm, fostering a culture of excellence and ownership.
Demonstrates a forward-thinking, innovative mindset—constantly exploring emerging technologies and unconventional solutions to complex challenges.
Builds and sustains a culture of trust, transparency, and psychological safety, enabling open dialogue and empowering diverse perspectives.
Challenges assumptions and the status quo with curiosity and courage, driving continuous improvement and elevating team performance.
Balances strategic vision with hands-on technical guidance, ensuring alignment between business goals and engineering execution.
Leads by example with integrity, resilience, and a commitment to mentoring others toward their full potential.
Conditions of Employment:
Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest, at the time any offer of employment is made and seeking any required work permits/visas or other authorizations which may be required is the sole responsibility of the candidates applying for this position.
Linguistic Requirements
Based on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.
Diversity and Inclusion
Air 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.
As 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.
Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.
