Are you ready to take off your career at one of the best places to work?
At Aeromexico, we are dedicated to offering our passengers the best travel experience. This is possible thanks to having the best talent in the industry. We strive to help all our employees grow, develop, and reach their full potential to achieve success in an inclusive, diverse, and equal environment.
Are you up for the challenge?
We are looking for a Head of Software Engineering to deliver extraordinary experiences for our customers.
This role is ideal for an individual with strong leadership, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills who understands how to lead Aeromexico’s enterprise Software Engineering function by defining the engineering strategy, operating model, talent capabilities, technology platforms, and delivery governance required to build and modernize software products across customer, commercial, operational, corporate, and revenue management areas. The role ensures delivery performance, quality, security, resiliency, developer productivity, platform modernization, and business value while driving the adoption of DevSecOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, observability, automated testing, modern architecture, and responsible AI across the software development lifecycle.
Educational requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
- Advanced English proficiency.
Experience:
- Experience leading large-scale enterprise software engineering organizations and multidisciplinary teams, with ownership of SDLC, engineering standards, software quality, productivity, and delivery governance.
- Experience leading delivery across internal teams, Software Factories, managed services, global system integrators, and strategic technology vendors.
- Experience modernizing mission-critical platforms using cloud-native, API-first, microservices, event-driven architectures, containers, observability, and automated testing.
- Experience in highly regulated, high-availability, customer-facing, or 24/7 operational environments; airline, travel, financial services, retail, or technology experience preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of DORA metrics, value stream management, technical debt, FinOps, resiliency, incident management, secure software development, and AI-assisted software development, including Generative AI and AI agents.
Skills to succeed:
- Enterprise leadership, executive presence, and strategic vision.
- Operating model design, organizational transformation, and change leadership.
- Software engineering excellence, architecture, DevSecOps, SRE, and platform modernization.
- Business and financial acumen with data-driven decision-making.
- Talent development, succession planning, and cross-functional influence.
- Vendor and partner leadership, innovation, AI, and continuous improvement.
Join Us!
Aeromexico is the ideal place for you to continue growing professionally and contribute to an incredible culture.
Fasten your seatbelts—this is your chance to elevate the journey into an extraordinary experience.
Aeromexico provides equal opportunities and does not discriminate against employees or applicants based on their race, religion, sex, country of origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, pregnancy, or illness.
Important: The Aeromexico Talent Acquisition team will identify themselves properly and will never request payments or banking information during the selection process. Please check our job openings only through official channels.
