Role Description As the Director Software Engineering you will lead and inspire engineering organizations shaping technical strategy and driving innovation at scale. Your role is crucial in defining and executing technical vision while fostering a culture of engineering excellence. You will establish and scale engineering practices that enable sustainable growth while ensuring alignment between technical initiatives and business objectives. Supervisory Responsibilities: - This position has direct supervisory responsibilities. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Define and execute technical strategies aligned with organizational objectives - Lead and mentor engineering leaders fostering their growth and effectiveness - Drive organizational design and scaling strategies - Establish engineering excellence programs and centers of innovation - Partner with cross-functional leadership to shape product strategy - Guide tool and technology selection across the organization - Drive innovation and modernization initiatives - Oversee architecture and design of large-scale software systems - Establish and scale engineering best practices - Drive adoption of emerging technologies and methodologies - Lead technical evaluations and strategic decisions - Guide system scalability and performance initiatives - Ensure security and compliance across technical solutions - Manage technical debt at organizational scale - Drive resource planning and allocation strategies - Establish quality standards and metrics across organizations - Guide disaster recovery and business continuity planning - Oversee major incident management processes - Define and track organizational health metrics - Advocate for and contribute to deployment process improvements - Drive technology innovation and thought leadership - Build strategic partnerships and industry relationships - Guide organizational learning and knowledge sharing - Research and evaluate industry trends and disruptions - Influence technical direction through industry engagement Qualifications - Proven ability to lead and grow engineering organizations delivering large-scale software products - Extensive knowledge of software development principles architectures and best practices across the entire technology stack - Strong leadership mentorship and team-building skills to inspire and motivate large groups of engineers - Excellent communication and negotiation skills to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization - Strategic thinking and ability to translate business requirements into technical strategies - Track record of successfully navigating complex technical landscapes and driving innovation Requirements - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field - 10+ years of software engineering experience - 8+ years of engineering leadership experience - Comprehensive understanding of front-end and back-end technologies cloud platforms and DevOps practices - Experience in overseeing development across multiple technology stacks and frameworks - Proven track record in developing technical roadmaps including work estimation and large-scale system modernization - Deep understanding of agile methodologies and their application in large engineering organizations Physical Requirements - Work is performed indoors with potential for exposure to safety and health hazards related to office work. - Could periodically travel to other office and operational sites. - The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. - Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Benefits - Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance - HSA/FSA - Voluntary Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness, Accident Insurance, and Short Term Disability - Voluntary Life Insurance for Self, Spouse and Dependent - Company-paid Basic Life Insurance and Long Term Disability - Retirement plan and Employer match contribution with Profit Share - Tuition Reimbursement program - Company perks and Discount program - Engaging Wellness and Financial Education Resources - Employee Assistance Program - Incentive Plans - Base Salary Minimum: $170,000 - Base Salary Maximum: $190,000

• Drive the design, architecture, and delivery of performant, modular, and accessible frontend systems. • Partner closely with Product, Design, and Backend teams to shape and deliver on our product roadmap. • Champion user experience through hands-on engagement with dogfooding, feedback loops, and usability improvements. • Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration within a globally distributed team. • Mentor and develop engineers, helping them grow technically and professionally. • Guide initiatives that modernize our FE stack, improve reliability, and enhance performance at scale.

Role Description We are seeking a zTPF Platform & Systems Engineering Manager. Our Platform and Systems Engineering teams enhance and maintain the stability of the zTPF complexes by providing high quality technical expertise and delivery for our zTPF platform, operating systems, and database. As zTPF Platform & Systems Engineering Manager, you will work with other Infrastructure Engineering leaders and teams, zTPF Systems Engineers, Hardware Engineers, and Support teams performing daily activities ranging in complexity. You will be responsible for the leadership of teams who design, configure, test, maintain, and operate Travelport’s zTPF mainframe infrastructure. You will own and drive work efforts through all stages of the requirements, design, development, quality, and implementation life cycles. The successful candidate will be a self-motivated, talented, technical, proactive person who embraces team culture, challenges, problem solving, and has a proven track record of delivering. - Lead a growing technical team responsible for the zTPF operating system, zTPF file support, and mainframe hardware. - Provide functional leadership for critical zTPF operating system, zTPF database, and mainframe platform capabilities, including new functionality, integration of IBM APARs, and maintenance of proprietary operating system modifications and utilities. - Provide functional leadership of the mainframe hardware configuration (CPU, DASD, VTS, HMC and FICON Directors), inclusive of hardware planning lifecycles, vendor engagement for upgrades, and production support of repair actions. - Collaborate with domain subject matter experts to identify strategies and align product management roadmaps with priorities and staffing capacity. - Apply knowledge of software engineering principles and quality concepts in the design, development, and maintenance of multiple components for a diverse family of products. - Understand integration and impact on adjacent systems, as well as short and long-term impact of technical decisions. - Collaborate with key stakeholders (architecture, security, application engineering, infrastructure engineering, project management, product, quality, etc.) to ensure solutions meet business requirements, including delivery quality, cost, timelines, and compliance. - Generate, communicate, and implement ideas to improve systems and/or streamline delivery. - Responsible for relationship building with key Travelport strategic customers. - Deliver production support services, including monitoring, troubleshooting, problem resolution, and maintenance including escalation to vendors for service restoration and problem resolution. - Provide 24x7 on-call availability and support as a point of escalation for team members. Qualifications - Proven and current experience leading teams that develop, deploy, and support zTPF operating system, zTPF database, and/or zTPF communications functions and associated infrastructure. - Lead and manage performance of direct reports to create a high performing team and proactively grow capabilities and develop talent. Ensure team goals and commitments are delivered. - Manage operating model, timelines, budgets, and growth of team members leveraging corporate management tools – i.e. Jira, PPM, OpenBlend, etc. - Proficient written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate technical information in a clear and succinct manner. - Executive presence and comfortable presenting with all levels of management. - Strong negotiation, project management, task delegation, and organizational skills. - Self-motivated with ability to multi-task and embrace an ever-changing environment, competing priorities, and high expectations. - Strong desire to spend time with customers and integrate feedback in future work efforts. - Understanding of IBM software and hardware technologies - architecture, operating systems, database, hardware, security, compliance. - Conceptual understanding of zTPF control program internals and zTPF database management. - Logical understanding of zSeries hardware – Central Electronics Complexes (CEC), Direct Access Storage Device storage (DASD), Virtual Tape Server storage (VTS), Hardware Maintenance Consoles (HMC), FICON Directors and other peripheral hardware. - Ability to navigate adjacent systems such as z/VM, z/Linux, and z/OS. - Knowledge of zTPF development and testing tools, such as zTPFGI, IBM Toolkit, CP trace, z/Linux, maketpf, VPARS, VTAPE. - Strong technical aptitude with strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills. - Knowledge of ITIL principles and processes. - Are always ready to give it your all and deliver high quality work. - Excited to use your creativity and innovative thinking to try new things. - Take responsibility and own your work. - Are courageous and ambitious to challenge what’s been done before. Benefits - All jobs are eligible to participate in our bonus program with payouts subject to individual and company performance. - Comprehensive benefit program that includes medical, dental, vision, employer paid Disability and Basic Life Insurance, Voluntary life options, and a competitive 401(k) match. - Generous paid time off policy and an annual volunteer day off. - New Child leave policy: birthing parent receives sixteen weeks of paid time off, non-birthing parent receives eight weeks of paid time off.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 6 infrastructure engineers • Drive infrastructure scalability, resilience, and operational excellence initiatives • Maintain a strong hands-on technical involvement in architecture, debugging, automation, and incident management • Own and manage the team’s on-call rotations and incident response processes • Define and monitor operational KPIs, SLIs, and SLOs for infrastructure reliability and performance • Build and optimize financial governance around infrastructure and cloud costs • Drive initiatives toward zero-downtime deployments and highly available distributed systems • Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident management practices • Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to support platform scalability and performance requirements • Lead post-mortems and root cause analyses to continuously improve platform reliability • Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement • Contribute to long-term infrastructure and platform strategy