Principal Application Architect - Front End

United Airlines•Chicago, IL

11h

About The Position

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. As a Principal Application Architect - Front End, 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Technology discipline
Experience with Micro frontend or Module Federation architecture, Angular or React, Redux or Flux data patterns.
Experience with hosting frontends with usage of cloud platform like AWS, GCP and serverless technologies, services and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc.).
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
Experience with Angular v17+, including Signals, standalone components, zoneless change detection, and other modern Angular capabilities
Proven ability to re‑architect legacy Angular applications into modern, modular, high‑performance solutions
Experience designing and delivering micro‑frontend architectures using Angular
Experience building mobile applications with Angular (Ionic, Capacitor)
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 qualifications
Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position

Nice To Haves

Airline application development experience is a plus
AWS solution architect certification or similar

Responsibilities

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