Job Description:

An opportunity for a Tech Lead Web Development (m/f) for Spares, MRO & Training domain has arisen within Airbus Helicopters (Albacete)

WHY JOIN US?

📍 LIFE IN ALBACETE: QUALITY & CONVENIENCE - Forget long commutes. Albacete offers you the great advantage of a “15-minute city": safe, accessible, comfortable and perfectly connected. Enjoy a premium standard of living at a competitive cost, ensuring you have the perfect balance between your career and your personal life.

🚁 AIRBUS HELICOPTERS: GROW WITH US - We offer more than a job; we offer a community. Immerse yourself in a young, collaborative environment that feels like family. As a strategic Center of Excellence, we are a global leader in helicopter production, offering you endless potential to grow alongside our major projects.

✨THE PROJECT: SHAPING THE FUTURE - Welcome to the Digital Campus, a pioneering ecosystem dedicated to industrial digitalization and innovation. This is more than just a workplace; it is a technological hub where we define the future of flight. 

Bring your ideas to a dynamic, modern ecosystem and help us build the next generation of aerospace solutions.

ROLE SUMMARY

With 3 to 5 years of experience, the selected candidate will join the AH Information Management Directorate, to manage, drive and monitor the code delivery of Digital projects, related to Airbus Helicopters Spares, MRO & Training domain. 

Our internal customers are composed of various teams that interact directly or indirectly with our Airbus customers and use various solutions that help building up customer relationships.

In a context of high service usage, you will be accountable for the security, quality and stability of our application’s code. You will play a pivotal role between our project or application managers, our managed service providers (MSPs), and our users to ensure service excellence.

Main web applications developed and supported by our team:

• Customer facing applications to manage ordering of Spares or repair of parts

• Applications to support the Training of customer’s pilots or technicians

• Applications open to our maintenance center to support blades repair

YOUR CHALLENGES

As a Web Development Techlead, you will be responsible for defining technical strategies, guiding the development team, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality web solutions for Airbus Helicopters operations. You will work closely with business (Product Owners, Business Analysts) and digital colleagues to ensure technical excellence and alignment with industry-specific requirements. This includes establishing best practices, mentoring team members, and overseeing the technical aspects of projects from conception to production deployment. Your goal is to build robust, scalable, and secure web applications that provide the highest possible value to the organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Business collaboration: Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to translate functional requirements into technical specifications and to estimate the cost of their requirements

• Leadership & Mentorship: Pull the development team upward by providing technical leadership and mentorship to the web development team (mainly today outsourced), fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.

• Architecture: Lead the design of modern web architectures ensuring scalability, performance, and security. 

• Quality: Act as the guarantor of code quality, implement best practices for software development life cycle (SDLC), ensure adherence to coding standards. Oversee code review and manage the tech debt ensuring maintainability and long-term viability of our web solutions.

• Proactiveness & Tech Watch: Proactively identify pain points and spontaneously propose improvements regarding architecture, tools, security, or workflows. Stay updated with emerging web technologies and industry standards, and integrate them where appropriate. 

• Operations & Crisis Management: Troubleshoot complex technical issues and provide solutions to ensure the smooth operation of web applications. Maintain composure and strict methodology when managing complex production incidents and hotfixes. 

• Technical Discovery & Evaluation: Lead technical exploration phases before development starts. Evaluate and recommend new technologies, frameworks, and tools to enhance web development capabilities. Build PoCs (Proof of Concepts) to evaluate feasibility, mitigate technical risks, and guide business decisions 

• Vision & Roadmap: Define and evolve the technical roadmap for web development, aligning it with business objectives and industry trends.

• Release Process: Drive and secure the end-to-end release process, acting as the technical gatekeeper to guarantee safe, reliable, and successful deployments to production. 

SKILLS

Required Technical Expertise 

Modern Tech Stack:

• Front-end: Mastery of core web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and Typescript). Strong expertise in Angular (React is a plus) 

• Back-end: Strong expertise in Java and Spring / Spring Boot. Bonus: Python, Node.js (NestJS).

Architecture Web & System Design: Ability to design robust, scalable, and maintainable systems. Deep understanding of API concepts, service-oriented/microservices architectures, performance, and security issues  (OWASP, authentication standards)..

Code Quality & Standards: Guarantor of best practices, code splitting, and optimization. (Bonus: Automated testing, Clean Architecture, TDD, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and a Software Craftsmanship mindset).

Databases: Solid understanding of relational databases (SQL) and database design. (Bonus: NoSQL / MongoDB).

Advanced Git Workflow: Definition of a strict versioning strategy and advanced mastery of Git commands.

DevOps & Cloud Culture: Without needing to be an absolute DevOps expert, you must understand CI/CD principles and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes). (Bonus: Red Hat OpenShift).

Bonus Technical Expertise 

Enterprise E-Commerce & SAP Ecosystem (Significant Advantage): Proven experience with large-scale enterprise integrations, with a critical focus on SAP Hybris / SAP Commerce Cloud, alongside Mirakl Marketplace and core SAP environments (SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC6, ABAP). 

Integration, Middleware & Event-Driven Architecture (Advantage): Familiarity with enterprise integration patterns and middleware platforms, with specific experience in Mulesoft (API Gateway & ESB), TIBCO ESB, or event-driven streaming solutions like Solace. 

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) skills

• Agile Methodology: Deep understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum), active participation, and natural integration into Agile ceremonies. (Bonus: Knowledge of SAFe framework at scale). 

• Workflow Management: Mastery of tracking tools (Jira). Strong analytical capacity to break down complex technical tasks into clear, executable tickets. 

• Crisis & Hotfix Management: Reactivity, rigor, and a cool head to manage and resolve production incidents efficiently. 

• Quality Assurance: Proficiency in application testing (unit, functional, and integration testing) to ensure robust delivery.

• Continuous Improvement: Ability to take a step back and draw lessons (post-mortems) after a production issue or a difficult sprint, aiming to implement lasting corrective processes. 

• Technical Debt Management: Experience in identifying, prioritizing, and managing technical debt continuously within the development lifecycle. 

• Risk & Dependency Management: Strong understanding of technical dependencies and risk management to proactively avoid delivery bottlenecks. 

• Effort Estimation: Ability to accurately estimate technical effort and timelines to ensure realistic sprint goals and delivery planning. 

Soft Skills

• Communication: Excellent written and oral communication skills to interact with both technical teams and business stakeholders.

• Simplification: Excellent communication skills. The ability to translate and explain complex technical constraints in simple words to non-technical stakeholders. 

• Pragmatism & Decision Making: Knowing how to make smart compromises. Ability to balance absolute technical quality with business imperatives and deadlines (Time-to-Market), keeping an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) vision. 

• Global Vision (Problem Solving): Ability to take a step back to understand the final product, user behavior, and the company's strategic goals to orient technical choices in the right direction. 

• Leadership: A natural capacity to inspire the team and help junior developers grow their skills. 

• Initiative: Always looking for ways to improve the existing codebase and development environment rather than just executing tasks. 

• Tech Watch: Maintain a constant technological watch and infuse a culture of innovation within the team (e.g., knowledge sharing, tech talks). 

• Mindset: Rigorous, autonomous, and possessing a strong team spirit.

• Customer Orientation: A natural focus on delivering value to the end-user.

• Language: An Advanced level in English is mandatory (working in an international environment).

 

WHICH BENEFITS WILL YOU HAVE AS AIRBUS EMPLOYEE?

At Airbus we are focused on our employees and their welfare. Take a look at some of our social benefits:

• Vacation days plus additional days-off along the year (Apróx. 35 days per year in total).

• Attractive salary.

• Hybrid model of working: we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

• Collective transport service subject to working calendar/home location.

• Benefits such as life insurance, health insurance, employee stock options, retirement plan, or study grants.

• On-site facilities (among others): free canteen, kindergarten, medical office.

• Possibility to collaborate in different social and corporate social responsibility initiatives.

• Excellent upskilling opportunities and great development prospects in a multicultural environment.

• Option to access special rates in products & benefits.

Take your career to a new level and apply online now! 🚁

Since this position is managed transnationally, please submit your documents (CV and/or cover letter) in English

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus Helicopters España, SA

Employment Type:

Permanent

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Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Software Engineering <JF-EN-EK>

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At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.