United Airlines
Overview
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United's Digital Technology team designs, develops and maintains scalable technology solutions with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions to power critical business capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, strategy, and evolution of enterprise applications and API integrations.
- Define scalable, resilient, and performant API solutions; create roadmaps; establish best practices to deliver measurable value.
- Collaborate with enterprise-level architects to modernize and optimize API design, aligning with long-term business goals and enabling innovation, agility, and high performance.
- Define and maintain API product strategy, roadmaps, and frameworks; refine APIs and integrations to support enterprise initiatives while maintaining KPIs, usability, and scalability.
- Develop technical standards, reference architectures, and design patterns for scalable APIs and integrations.
- Ensure architectural alignment across domains, addressing security, reliability, extensibility, and manageability.
- Research emerging technologies and industry trends; conduct proofs of concepts to assess new solutions and drive adoption of modern design patterns.
- Manage business case development, scope definition, and delivery roadmaps for API-related strategic initiatives.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and observability tools to ensure efficient API delivery and reliability; monitor and optimize API performance.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Related fields: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems (preferred)
- 7+ years of technical experience
- Experience in enterprise architecture and managing complex enterprise applications and infrastructure
- Experience with APIs and managing API products (user feedback, requirements, issues)
- Ability to prioritize confidently under pressure and with limited resources
- Legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
- Successful completion of interview process to meet job qualifications
- Reliable, punctual attendance as an essential function
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience at a technology company with a monetized API product used by external customers
- Experience with Kong Gateway and Kong Mesh
- Strong DevOps/CICD and observability skills (e.g., Dynatrace)
- PCI compliance experience for enterprise applications
- Security and vulnerability management knowledge
- Data management expertise across relational and non-relational databases
Job Details
- Job function: Information Technology
- Industry: Airlines and Aviation
- Employment type: Full-time
- Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
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