Chief Technology Officer (Cto)

About Us
ATP is the nation's largest flight school, providing students with the most efficient path to a successful airline pilot career. For over 35 years, ATP has been the leader in professional flight training and supplying pilots to regional and major airlines.
The role
In your role, you will be responsible for the management, reliability, security, development, and scaling of ATP's technological infrastructure, data, servers, and systems to meet the operational needs of the company and the ATP customer. Leading a growing team of engineers, you will interface with other departments and executives to align technological resources with organization goals; research, communicate, and implement new technology; ensure the continued growth, security, and stability of existing systems; and will rapidly mobilize solutions to solve complex problems.
Responsibilities

• Lead engineering team and align development resources with the goals of the organization
• Stay up-to-date with industry, company, and departmental developments
• Maintain thorough knowledge of ATP's mission, values, and operations
• Manage multiple simultaneous systems development projects from concept to deployment while efficiently working a backlog of development tasks using Agile and Scrum best practices
• Develop, monitor, and report on relevant KPIs, creating and implementing technological strategies to meet established performance goals
• Develop and work hands-on to maintain ATP's technological resources to meet operational demands
• Proactively discover, propose, and implement emerging technologies and best practices that yield a competitive, operational, and financial advantage
• Ensure the highest level of systems stability, security, and reliability

Qualifications

• AWS Certifications, including Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer, preferred
• Mastery of current and emerging technologies and best practices for system infrastructure, security, and stability
• Experience in Lasso language preferred
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new coding languages and expansive existing systems
• Effective analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on delivering innovative and pragmatic solutions
• Proficient working knowledge and ability to maintain and develop systems using AWS, RDS, Redis, MySQL, CloudFront, Kubernetes, and other services, such as CloudFlare and Twilio
• Over 10 years of experience effectively leading remote and onsite engineering teams and development projects, from concept to delivery
• Excellent communicator with a strategic mindset who can translate business goals and plain language into actionable technology plans and development requirements for engineers
• Live ATP values and understand the needs of the ATP customer
• Knowledge of aviation is preferred; interest in aviation is required
• Proven development experience leveraging new technologies, such as cloud computing and machine learning, into existing systems
• Over 15 years of work experience in enterprise systems architecture and development, with a master's degree in computer science or information technology

Benefits
ATP offers a comprehensive employee benefits program, including:

• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Starting pay commensurate with experience
• 13 Paid Time Off Days per Year (PTO is earned on an accrual-basis)
• 401(k) Enrollment (100% Vested with no employer contributions)
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Critical Illness and Accident Insurance
• 8 Paid Holidays
• Medical coverage

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The employee is regularly required to talk, hear, see, stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms, lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

ATP is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.