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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 Senior Data Architect serves as the primary technical visionary for the United’s Passenger Service System (PSS), driving the strategy and structural design of our most critical data assets. We are looking for a result-oriented, meticulous and experienced data architect to join our talented team. 
 

As a data architect, your responsibility will be to develop, optimize, and oversee the conceptual and logical data systems. You also should know how to review data system requirements as we build our cloud-native solution and implement migration models. You also would need to demonstrate proven experience in data analysis, management, and excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities. You would provide industry-leading thought leadership, facilitate the development of strategies across multiple disciplines/domains, consult on the design of complex enterprise initiatives and provide guidance to project teams.
 

• Architecting and delivering highly-scalable and flexible, cost-effective enterprise solutions

• Define and build overall data design and modeling across all of the organization's data systems

• Data management across multiple data systems: data governance, data mastering, meta-data management, data definitions, Symantec-layer design, data taxonomies and ontologies

• 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.

Creativity & Innovation – The ability to define new, original ideas and successfully implement them across an organization. Involves an ability to think “outside-in”, assess conventional work products and processes, define new concepts, and manage change across the organization in implementing them

Persuasion – The ability to engage and enroll others in an initiative – both individually and in a group setting. Involves articulating the new possibility for others – and leading and engaging others in direct, positive, meaningful conversations "Big Picture" Thinker – The ability to maintain perspective and establish context. Involves being able to recognize patterns and predict outcomes – and leverage them to redirect personal and/or team work effort in the optimal direction

Strategic – The ability to visualize and plan for outcomes in the future, and sustain work in achieving the outcomes. Involves an ability to support short-term trade-offs in order to achieve longer term gain

Communication Skills – The ability to communicate verbally and in writing with all levels of employees and management, capable of successful formal and informal communication. Involves an ability to speak and write clearly and understandably at the right level

Technical Expertise - Involves demonstrating a commitment to increasing knowledge and skills in current technical/functional area, keeping up to date on technical developments, staying informed as to industry practices, knowing how to apply relevant technical processes to appropriate business needs Integrity and Trust - Involves being widely trusted, being seen as a direct, truthful individual, can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner, keeps confidences, admits mistakes, and doesn’t misrepresent him/herself for personal gain

Prioritization – The ability to successfully manage multiple competing work efforts across multiple teams.
 

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

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

 

•    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering
•    9+ years of applicable experience in business, information or technology architecture
•    Experience in leading technical staff or coordinating work across multiple technology teams
Technical Skills:
•    5+ years of experience in a data architect role including enterprise data architecture models (OLTP, OLAP, Data Lake / Lakehouse), data systems (structured and unstructured data sources), systems integration, cloud technology and strategic roadmaps
•    3+ years of experience with all aspects of data management: data governance, data mastering, meta-data management, data taxonomies and ontologies
•    5+ years of experience in designing and building applications using AWS cloud architecture & services which supports highly resilient multi-region systems. AWS cloud services include RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, MSK/Solace, or similar cloud services.
•    2+ years of experience in working with Glue, Athena, Redshift, EMR, Lake Formation, Databricks
•    Solid understanding of data security and compliance requirements
•    Experience in common architecture frameworks such as Microservices, REST APIs management including Authentication & authorization
•    Experience working with various teams including PlatformOps/DevOps and Development teams. Review architectural designs with various stakeholders.
•    Architecture experience using various tools like Visio, Draw.io, Lucid and others to provide cloud architecture designs including resiliency structures.
•    Experience in building and/or integrating AI (ML/GenAI) into the solution architectures will be a plus
•    Able to understand and help implementation teams using object-oriented programming languages if required, i.e., Java, .Net, Python etc.
•    Business Acumen: The ability to make insightful, successful business decisions and tradeoffs assessing the internal and external business landscape, strategies, opportunities, strengths and weaknesses. Involves knowledge of the industry – and awareness of the key trends shaping the future of the corporation
 

 

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

 

• Master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business
• Expertise in design and implementation of complex IT solutions
• Technical knowledge in area of expertise
• Airline Experience is a plus
• AWS certifications (Data Analytics / Solutions Architect)
• Awareness of industry best practices and research.