Description

United's Digital Technology team designs, develops, and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.

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With multiple employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities and world-class benefits like health insurance, parental leave, and space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work that will make you feel welcome and accepted. Come join our team and help us make a positive impact on the world.

Job overview and responsibilities

The Principal Architect will lead on the design, implementation, deployment, and maintenance of Jeppesen platform and underlying Pairing, Crew Bid, Crew Rostering and Calibration products. Work with business partners, crew unions and other cross-functional DT teams across the organization and at the enterprise level to build resilient, performant solutions, which can manage multiple business capabilities and delivering value. Guide the team on best practices in building large scale systems. Explore, research, and implement innovative cloud platform solutions to remove dependency on physical hardware, improve efficiency and to reduce cost.

• Collaborate with domain architects, engineers, and leaders to develop technical standards, reference architectures, design patterns, opinion papers, and architecture decision frameworks that guide the design of technology solutions, especially those requiring integration of applications.

• Develop and manage a technical strategy and coordinates adoption. This role will be responsible to architect guidance that conveys best practices and common pitfalls for system design, infrastructure integrations, application development practices, and application runtime principles.

• Manage the architecture review process by creating validation checklists, reviewing architectural artifacts, and providing domain specific guidance to drive architectural alignment across the enterprise.

• Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design solutions that meet operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability, and manageability.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders and product vendor in creating and managing the roadmap for product enhancements, performance optimization and efficiency.

• Conduct research and develop Proof of Concepts on emerging technologies and implementation toolkits in support of anticipated development efforts and recommend technologies that functionally robust and cost effective

• Research, enforce, and drive the adoption of design patterns throughout the enterprise and evangelizes best practices for solution design and development

• Identify new technologies, industry trends, and best practices, which should be incorporated into BFS policies & roadmap

• Plays a critical role in translating business strategy into technical strategy and20 defines end-to-end technology architectures that support the strategy

United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree

• Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, other computer related field required

• +7 years of experience in enterprise architecture, with a strong background in managing complex enterprise applications and infrastructure

• Enterprise Applications: In-depth experience with Linux, Shell Scripting, Python and functional modeling tools/languages

• Cloud and On-Premise Infrastructure: Expertise in on-premise server provisioning, with a focus on hybrid cloud environments

• Security and Vulnerability Management. Solid understanding of security best practices, including vulnerability management and mitigation

• Data Management: Proficient in data architecture, governance, and security, with experience in both relational and non-relational databases

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship

• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification

• Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position

Preferred

• Master's degree

• Computer Science

• Airline Operations experience

• Grid Computing

• Building optimizer solution using mathematical models

• Experience with Jeppesen or similar technologies for Crew Bidding and Crew Rostering

• AWS and DevOps experience

The base pay range for this role is $137,275.00 to $187,000.00.

The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.

You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.

United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation.