Principal Application Architect

Company: United Airlines
Location: Chicago
Posted on: May 3, 2025

Job Description:

DescriptionFind your future at United! We're reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be - from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you're joining a global team of 100,000+ connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward.Achieving our ambitions starts with supporting yours. Evolve your career and find your next opportunity. Get the care you need with industry-leading health plans and best-in-class programs to support your emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Expand your horizons with travel across the world's biggest route network. Connect outside your team through employee-led Business Resource Groups.Create what's next with us. Let's define tomorrow together.United's Digital Technology team is comprised of many talented individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. Our team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.Job overview and responsibilitiesAs a Principal Application Architect, you'll be responsible for engineering management, implementation, configuration and operationalization of a large AWS cloud-based enterprise application suite that our employees use globally at all airports. Principal Application Architect is highly experienced, self-sufficient, requires no direct supervision, and mentors/coaches others.

• Be a Thought Partner, i.e., establish self as the Subject matter expert with Product Owners, Applications Developers, Architects, Analysts, Business Process owners.
• Leading and influencing the design, testing, evaluation, implementation, and support for Jet Application which is of large size and complexity (application services, software, and systems tools).
• Hands-on development, support and troubleshoot of software systems as required, optimizing performance, resolving problems, and providing follow-up on all issues and solutions.
• Ability to lead diagnostics/troubleshooting with the production support team during outages/incidents (including outside of business hours as needed).
• Work closely to define the product technical roadmap, prioritization and effort estimation with the product owners, business and platform architects.
• Architects complex release patterns, code review/branching strategies, and/or documentation of various levels of architecture; context diagram, component diagram, deployment diagram, sequence diagram, and logical architecture.
• Develops documentation to support the application and as a guide for establishing common practices across the platform.
• Partners 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 is critical to ensure that the architectural principals support the requirements and needs of the application as well as enterprise.
• Communicates regularly and effectively with senior technology leadership.
• Coordinate effort with external stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of dependent components.
• Ensures solutions are clearly communicated for implementation, deliverables are of acceptable quality.
• Ensures compliance of architectural and engineering policies, standards and procedures.
• Monitor and stay abreast of industry trends and anticipate future direction of application development and cloud computing.QualificationsWhat's needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
• Bachelor's Degree in Technology discipline, related field or additional 4 years of experience.
• 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.
• 7+ years of end-to-end software solution development, implementation and operationalization experience.
• Experience with .NET, MVC, Bootstrap, Angular development or similar.
• Experience with usage of cloud platform like AWS, GCP and serverless technologies, services and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc.) or similar.
• Extensive experience to lead parallel work streams in Agile environment.
• Experience with analyzing and interpreting APM tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, or similar.
• 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.
• Coordinating efforts across multiple teams like Release Managers, DevOps Engineers, QA, UX designers for a successful delivery of applications.
• 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.What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):
• Airline application development experience is a plus.
• AWS solution architect certification or similar.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 to request accommodation.
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