Belonging to Air Canada is to belong to a Canadian symbol, Air Canada recently voted best airline in North America. Take your career to new heights by joining our innovative and diverse team at the forefront of passenger air transport.

Join Air Canada — an iconic Canadian brand and the highest-ranked airline in North America — as we continue to evolve our digital platforms to support critical operational and customer experiences.

The Development Lead is a hands‑on technical leader who sets technical direction, oversees sprint execution, and drives results within an agile development team. This role is responsible for technical solution design, delivery predictability, code quality, and deployment readiness, ensuring that solutions align with enterprise architecture, engineering standards, and business goals.

The Development Lead provides day‑to‑day technical direction through implementation coordination, coaching, and active contribution. The Development Lead is the primary implementation authority within approved architectural constraints: escalating design decisions that fall outside defined patterns and ensuring operational learnings are incorporated into the task backlog.

Let your career take flight by joining a team that is redefining the digital passenger experience and standing at the forefront of the global air transport industry.

Responsibilities

- Drive sprint commitments, day-to-day execution, delivery predictability, and team outcomes;
ensure stories and tasks are well-defined, estimated, sequenced, and delivered while proactively managing scope, dependencies, technical priorities, and trade-offs.
- Break down complex requirements into transparent technical tasks, analyze system interactions and dependencies, anticipate risks,



and guide implementation and validation.
- Lead technical solution design and own implementation architectural decisions within approved constraints, ensuring alignment with enterprise technology standards and long-term product vision;
evaluate scalability, performance, security, maintainability, and design trade-offs.
- Lead and review the development of detailed design specifications for clarity, feasibility, and alignment with overall architecture;
apply approved modern patterns including microservices, serverless, and modular component-based architecture, and obtain technical lead approval for high-risk or pattern-deviating designs.
- Define and evolve the development team's technical strategy, implementation approaches, integration strategies, and engineering practices in line with enterprise standards;
participate in cross-team initiatives to promote consistent technical guidelines across teams and platforms.
- Act as the primary implementation technical authority on the team;
apply architectural patterns and engineering standards, make technical decisions within established constraints, and elevate to the technical lead regarding decisions affecting common services, multi-team designs, or global enterprise alignment.
- Ensure readiness for production releases, including quality criteria for testing, security, and performance, operational procedures,



observability tool coverage, and fallback or mitigation plans.
- Establish, evolve, and enforce coding standards, testing frameworks, documentation practices, security controls, observability practices, and responsible AI practices to foster maintainability and scalability.
- Conduct thorough peer code reviews and merge requests, including AI-generated code;
evaluate test plans andunit test scripts for accuracy, quality, reliability, security, performance, maintainability, and compliance with approved patterns.
- Actively participate in the design, development, modification, integration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of applications and services across front‑end, back‑end, cloud, and DevOps environments;
lead complex or high-risk implementations and set an example by applying best practices in coding, testing, debugging, and performance optimization.
- Establish a unit testing, test automation, and AI coverage evaluation strategy to meet quality criteria and prevent defects.
- Improve integration and deployment pipelines, build and infrastructure automation, DevSecOps practices, release automation, and AI-assisted development processes to increase deployment frequency and developer productivity.
- Collaborate with product owners, QA, designers, and scrum facilitators to jointly draft user stories, define acceptance criteria, refine the task backlog, and balance technical feasibility, testability, and business priorities;
foster rapid decision-making regarding scope changes.
- Own technical interventions for production issues;
lead triage, investigation, debugging, mitigation, and service restoration, coordinating support from o

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