Distinguished Enterprise Architect, Infrastructure and Operations

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: 2 days in-office

Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place.

As the Distinguished Enterprise Architect for Infrastructure and Operations, you’ll set the strategy and standards that power reliability, speed, and safety across Priceline’s platforms, networks, and run-time environments.

This role raises the architectural bar for Priceline’s Infrastructure and Operations—building reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective foundations so product teams can ship quickly without chaos. You’ll unify platform engineering, SRE, networking, and multi-region cloud infrastructure into paved roads and guardrails that accelerate delivery, improve reliability, strengthen observability, reduce change-failure rate and MTTR, enable safe, scalable AI adoption, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

• Define and evolve the target-state Infrastructure and Operations architecture aligned to Priceline’s long-term business and technology objectives, with a pragmatic phased roadmap and measurable interim milestones.

• Design and govern global, cloud-native platforms (e.g., Kubernetes/GKE, service mesh, data and messaging backbones, edge/CDN, identity/IAM, network architecture) that are resilient, scalable, secure, and cost-optimized—grounded in explicit trade-offs.

• Lead platform engineering strategy—establish paved roads/golden paths, an internal developer platform (IDP), reusable reference architectures, and self-service automation that shorten idea-to-production cycles.

• Institutionalize SRE fundamentals and advance Infrastructure as Code and Git Ops.

• Embed security and privacy by design—partner with Security/Risk to implement Zero Trust, secrets and key management, vulnerability & patch orchestration, data protection, and regulatory controls (e.g., PCI, SOX, GDPR/CCPA) across platforms and pipelines.

• Use business criticality classification to drive resiliency, capacity, and performance engineering requirements, with automated IaC policies for topology/redundancy, data protection, observability configuration, SLOs, change management requirements, and IAM policies.

• Evaluate emerging technologies, patterns, and vendors to shape strategic roadmaps—leading build/buy/partner analyses, proofs of concept, and TCO/ROI assessments to de-risk decisions.

• Coach principal and staff engineers, uplevel engineering practices, and cultivate a culture of clarity, simplicity, and continuous improvement.

• Strategic thinker and clear communicator who can influence executives, peers, and engineers.

• Deep experience across cloud infrastructure and operations—Kubernetes/container platforms, platform engineering/IDP, networks, storage, observability, incident management, DR/BCP, and modern change management.

• Hands‑on engineering background with fluency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), automation (e.g., Python/Go), Git Ops/CI/CD, service mesh, and production observability.

• Cloud‑native experience—ideally GCP (e.g. GKE, Cloud Service Mesh, VPC, Cloud
  
  SQL/Alloy
  
  DB/Spanner, Big Query, Bigtable, GCE, GCS, Vertex AI, Looker) and Kafka.

• Security‑first mindset with practical knowledge of Zero Trust, IAM, secrets management, vulnerability management, and privacy/compliance frameworks (e.g., PCI, SOX, GDPR/CCPA).

• Fin Ops‑aware—able to model and optimize cost/reliability/latency trade‑offs at scale.

• Bias for clarity and simplicity—reducing complexity and enabling teams to move faster and smarter.

• Analytical problem‑framer who reduces ambiguity into clear, actionable components.

• Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline:
  Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust.

• The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics are essential.

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