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Director, Enterprise Platform Leader

Erlanger, KY, USA

Join Atlas Air Worldwide. Move the World with Us!

At Atlas Air Worldwide, we’re not just an airline, we’re a global engine powering cargo, passenger, and leasing operations across more than 70 countries. As a leader in outsourced aviation logistics, we’re built on a foundation of safety, service excellence, integrity, innovation, teamwork, and responsibility.  With over 30 years of history, a modern all-Boeing fleet, and nearly 5,000 teammates collaborating across operations, technical, and corporate functions, we’re driven by purpose. 

If you're ready to grow, innovate, and help us deliver excellence every single day, you belong here.

Enterprise Platform Leaders are influential leaders who help guide the technical and operational direction of Atlas enterprise platforms, supporting platform stability, resilience, and long‑term sustainability. They act as trusted advisors and decision‑makers, helping resolve the most complex and high‑risk challenges while enabling delivery teams to perform at scale.

Partnering closely with Business Owners, Product Owners, and Architects, they contribute to planning, backlog grooming, and delivery strategy, ensuring outcomes are executed with quality from design through testing and go‑live. They promote architectural alignment by reinforcing enterprise patterns and best practices, identifying gaps, and collaborating on the creation and adoption of new standards when required. Enterprise Platform Leaders support platform‑wide operational health, leading escalations, managing outages, and driving root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.

As senior members of squads, they model agile leadership, champion SDLC excellence, and set expectations for testing, automation, documentation, security, and operational readiness. They are accountable for growing organizational capability through coaching and mentoring consultants, partnering with Architects and Chapter Leads to drive technical, people, and process maturity. Through strong stakeholder engagement and a continuous improvement mindset, they champion value optimization by eliminating inefficiencies and ensuring enterprise platforms consistently deliver measurable business value.

Values and Behavioral Standards:

To ensure the effective communication and application of company values and behavioral standards, as stated in our company, “Code of Conduct” policy, and to respond appropriately in the event of any known departure.
Embody and role model the Atlas Leadership Principles and Values. Be curious and keen to develop 'T' shaped capabilities and support others doing the same.

Major Job Accountabilities:

  • Guides the direction and leads delivery of complex platform capabilities aligned to enterprise standards and SDLC.
  • Provide senior technical leadership, unblocking teams and guiding consultants through complex business challenges.
  • Leads platform reliability and operational excellence, supporting 24x7 availability of critical business services.
  • Help define and manage platform SLAs to meet business, risk, and operational expectations.
  • Drive transparency and accountability through clear reporting on platform health, uptime, and performance.
  • Lead major incident escalations and coordinate effective resolution and post‑incident learning.
  • Provide oversight of vendor platform engagements, ensuring outcomes align to business objectives.
  • Champion high‑performing team culture, delivery discipline, and continuous improvement.
  • Lead prioritization and outcome‑focused delivery through effective backlog grooming and planning.
  • Ensure delivery predictability through strong estimation practices and performance metrics.
  • Coach other leaders and teams through retrospectives, capability growth, and maturity improvement.
  • Engage confidently with senior enterprise stakeholders, translating strategy into executable outcomes.
  • Articulate platform and chapter strategy, clearly connecting work delivered to business value.
  • Support the Chapter Lead in running the chapter, evolving practices, and developing talent.
  • Mentor and develop consultants, building long‑term capability and leadership bench strength.

Qualifications:

  • Degree or equivalent experience
  • Minimum 12 years of experience in their specialty platform
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in an agile delivery culture
  • Minimum 2 years of experience with multiple complementary technical skills (such as an additional platforms in the ecosystem)
  • Experience delivering applications within an automated CI/CD, SDLC and automated testing advantageous airline or logistics experience an advantage but not essential
  • Minimum 5 years of experience coaching junior team members

Special demands:

The role may require frequent (~monthly) domestic travel and occasional (annually) international travel.

 

Skills:

  • Flexibility to adapt to a fast-paced work environment
  • Critical thinking skills
    Self-motivate
  • Team player
    Able to build a high performing team culture
  • Able to coach more junior team members and more senior stakeholders
  • Can lead others in technical problem solving
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills and strong influencing and storytelling skills

 

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship or employer immigration support either now or in the future.

The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to afford equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, place of birth, age, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic or status protected by applicable in accordance with federal, state and local laws.

If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law document by clicking "EEO Is The Law" .

To view our Pay Transparency Statement, please click here: Pay Transparency Statement

Competitive compensation will be offered based on a variety of factors, including a candidate's experience, skills, education, geographic location, internal equity and other factors. In addition, a range of benefits to include medical, dental and vision insurance, employee assistance program, as well as generous paid time off, and 401K contributions are offered as a part of the total compensation package.

Pay Range

$145,000 - $195,000 USD

At Atlas Air Worldwide, we believe in the power of people, the promise of innovation, and the responsibility we hold to each other, to our customers, and to the planet. Join us and be part of a team that lifts more than cargo; we lift ambition.

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