Senior Architect IT

Description

Find 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.

Our team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions. This is a hybrid role based in Chicago, 2 days per week in the office.

Job overview and responsibilities

Recognized expert in the enterprise architecture field. Define roadmaps to bridge the gap from the current to future state for business, information, and technology capabilities. Provide industry-leading thought leadership and facilitate the development of strategies across multiple fields/domains. Facilitate the development of architecture patterns and standards. Consult on the design of complex enterprise initiatives and provide guidance to project teams. Manage enterprise architecture models and repositories. Communicate and market the enterprise architecture strategy and ensure the successful delivery of each solution.

• Architecting and delivering highly-scalable and flexible, cost-effective enterprise solutions
• Strong AWS experience across various services - Compute, Databases, and Streaming Services
• Work closely with the principal architects to deliver the needed architectures
• Anticipate future technology requirements and communicate those to the leadership and multi-functional teams
• Understand the current state of the organization-wide architecture. Identify key business drivers and technology capabilities required to achieve optimal state
• Coordinate with collaborator teams and own the conversation to define use cases, goals, objectives, and architecture to support the business needs
• Build relationships with senior leadership. Engage and evangelize recommendations to senior leadership teams

Qualifications

What's needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or Business
• 4+ years (5+) preferred applicable experience in business, information or technology architecture
• 4+ years of React and .Net experience
• 3+ years of AWS experience
• Experience in leading technical staff or coordinating work across multiple technology teams
• Technical Skills:
• Experience in designing applications using AWS cloud architecture & services which supports highly resilient multi-region systems. AWS cloud services include ECS, EKS, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda, MSK/Solace, S3, or similar cloud services if coming from other cloud experiences
• Experience in common architecture frameworks such as Microservices, REST APIs management including Authentication & authorization
• Event-driven architectures to support high throughput, lower latency systems, i.e., Kafka/MSK, Solace Streaming or any others
• Experience working with various teams including PlatformOps/DevOps and Development teams. Review architectural designs with various collaborators.
• Architecture experience using various tools like Visio, Draw.io, Lucid and others to provide cloud architecture designs including resiliency structures.
• Able to understand and help implementation teams using object oriented programming languages if and when required, i.e., Java, .Net, Python etc.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

• Master's degree
• Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business