Principal Architect - Information Technology

Description

The Principal Architect will lead the architectural design and strategy for Baggage Scanning suite applications. Responsibilities include:

• Leading the design, implementation, deployment, and maintenance of applications.
• Collaborating with other architects and cross-functional teams to build resilient and performant applications.
• Guiding the team on best practices in building large-scale systems.
• Mentoring and coaching others in architecture and engineering.
• Developing and managing a technical strategy and coordinating its adoption.
• Managing the architecture review process and providing domain-specific guidance.
• Implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and observability tools.
• Conducting research and developing Proof of Concepts on emerging technologies.
• Researching, enforcing, and driving the adoption of design patterns throughout the enterprise.
• Identifying new technologies and industry trends, recommending technologies that are functionally robust and cost-effective.
• Leading and influencing the design, testing, evaluation, implementation, and support for technologies and R&D POCs.
• Optimizing performance, resolving problems, and providing follow-up on all issues and solutions.
• Leading diagnostics and troubleshooting with the production support team during outages/incidents.
• Defining the product technical roadmap, prioritization, and effort estimation with product owners, business, and platform architects.
• Supporting pilots for emerging technologies and guiding their transition into scalable, supported production environments.
• Developing documentation to support the application and establish common practices across the platform.
• Partnering with platform engineering and DevOps teams to research, design, and implement the appropriate technology needed to support the automation and orchestration strategy.
• Partnership with the Enterprise architecture, network, and security engineering team to ensure that the architectural principals support the requirements and needs of the application as well as the enterprise.
• Communicating regularly and effectively with senior technology leadership.
• Coordinating efforts across multiple teams like Release Managers, DevOps Engineers, QA, UX designers for a successful delivery of applications.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, including CI/CD, automation, and observability tools.
• Solid understanding of security best practices, including vulnerability management and mitigation.
• Proficient in data architecture, governance, and security, with experience in both relational and non-relational databases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, with a strong background in managing complex enterprise applications and infrastructure.
• 3+ years of AWS experience.
• 2+ years of Android Mobile Solution Experience.
• Experience with cloud platform like AWS, GCP and serverless technologies, services and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc.) or similar.
• Full-stack application management in AWS cloud native technologies like such as EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, Lambda, AmazonMQ, API Gateway, DynamoDB etc., and high level network and hardware integration.
• Experience implementing/deploying microservices, web services and APIs, gateways, service mesh in highly automated CI/CD environments.
• Experience in Well-Architected frameworks, application performance tuning, application resilience and reliability improvement.
• Experience in developing large scale responsive web applications across multiple end user devices.
• Experience in troubleshooting and support during critical system outages for operationally critical applications.
• Familiarity with GenAI, agentic technologies, automation platforms, and AI tools.
• Coordination of efforts across multiple teams like Release Managers, DevOps Engineers, QA, UX designers for a successful delivery of applications.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, including CI/CD, automation, and observability tools (Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk).
• Solid understanding of security best practices, including vulnerability management and mitigation.
• Proficient in data architecture, governance, and security, with experience in both relational and non-relational databases.

What will help you propel from the pack

• Master's degree in Computer Science.
• Airline Experience.

Pay Range

The base pay range for this role is $140,600.00 to $183,108.00. The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.

Equal Opportunity Employer

United Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request an accommodation, contact JobAccommodations@united.com.