Principle Enterprise Solution Architect

Description

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 responsibilities

The Principal Enterprise Architect for DevOps is a high-impact leadership and "evangelist" role within the IT Application Development function. This individual is responsible for architecting the enterprise-wide software delivery ecosystem, ensuring that application development teams can deploy code with maximum speed, security, and reliability. You will serve as a technical visionary, driving the adoption of modern DevOps practices and tools across the organization's application portfolio. 

•    Architectural Strategy & Vision: Define the long-term architectural roadmap for DevOps within IT Application Development, ensuring alignment between software engineering goals and infrastructure capabilities.
•    DevOps Evangelism: Act as a primary advocate and subject matter expert for DevOps culture, mentoring engineering teams on modern delivery patterns and operational excellence.
•    Platform Standardization: Design and govern a centralized framework for CI/CD pipelines, SCM structures, and infrastructure templates to ensure consistency and compliance across various application development projects.
•    Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Leadership: Lead the design and implementation of scalable, automated infrastructure using Terraform and AWS to support high-performance application environments.
•    Containerization Strategy: Architect and oversee the deployment of containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes, optimizing for performance, resource availability, and resilience.
•    Tooling Excellence: Evaluate and manage the enterprise tech stack, with a focus on Harness or Jenkins, ensuring the integration of best-in-class performance monitoring and security tools.
•    Performance & Security Governance: Architect automated guardrails for infrastructure security and availability, ensuring that application delivery pipelines meet rigorous enterprise standards.
 

This position is offered on local terms and conditions.  Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded. This position is for United Airlines Business Services Pvt. Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of United Airlines Inc.

Qualifications

Qualifications & Experience:

•    Seniority: Minimum of 15 to 20 years of experience in the IT industry, with a proven track record in high-level architectural roles.
•    Architectural Expertise: Extensive experience serving as an Architect or Technical Evangelist, with the ability to influence leadership and drive organizational change.
•    Cloud & Infrastructure: Deep technical proficiency in AWS and Terraform for large-scale, enterprise-grade cloud environments.
•    DevOps Mastery: Expert knowledge of CI/CD orchestration platforms (specifically Harness or Jenkins) and Source Code Management (SCM) using Git.
•    Containerization: Advanced hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes orchestration in a production environment.
•    Observability & Security: Proficiency with enterprise-grade tools for infrastructure performance monitoring, high availability, and security.
•    Leadership Skills: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to bridge the gap between business strategy and technical execution.
•    AI Vision: Experience in leveraging artificial intelligence for automating tasks, knowledge on Prompt engineering and Agentic AI. Expertise or hands-on in AI/ML is an added advantage.