Principal Architect - IoT

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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

As a Principal Application Architect, you'll be responsible for engineering management, implementation, configuration and operationalization of a large AWS cloud‑based enterprise application & services suite that orchestrates IoT data & sensor sources to drive business value & operational decision‑making. Leverage cutting edge technology solutions like Computer Vision, agentic frameworks, and real‑time eventing to support Airport applications and use cases. The Principal Application Architect is highly experienced, self‑sufficient, requires no direct supervision, and mentors/coaches others.

• 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 IoT Applications & R&D POCs of various 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.

• Architect 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

• Develop documentation to support the application and as a guide for establishing common practices across the platform

• Partner with platform engineering and Dev Ops 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.

• Communicate regularly and effectively with senior technology leadership

• Coordinate effort with external stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of dependent components

• Ensure solutions are clearly communicated for implementation, deliverables are of acceptable quality

• Ensure compliance with architectural and engineering policies, standards and procedures

• Monitor and stay abreast of industry trends and anticipate future direction of application development and cloud computing

Qualifications

What's needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in a technology discipline, related field or an additional 4 years of experience

• Full‑stack application management in AWS cloud‑native technologies like EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, Lambda, Amazon

MQ, API Gateway, Dynamo

DB, etc., and high‑level network and hardware integration

• Experience designing, building, and supporting IoT applications including using IoT cloud services like AWS Greengrass or similar

• Experience with real‑time streaming design, platforms, and solutions like Solace, Kinesis, or similar

• 7+ years of end‑to‑end software solution development, implementation and operationalization experience

• Experience with .NET, MVC, Bootstrap, Angular development or similar, and with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, serverless…