Senior Principal Solutions Architect

Company

Alaska Airlines

Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day.

If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you.

The Senior Principal Solutions Architect is the sole subject matter expert and thought leader in governance for software engineering for Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines. As an individual contributor, this role designs and implements innovative enterprise software engineering best practices, standards, and technology roadmaps and identifies governance for software engineering efforts, while solving technical, process, and governance issues.

• Defines long‑term strategy for software design, implementation, and documentation of associated technologies and products in use throughout the airline.
• Designs and implements technology roadmaps, standards, methodologies, processes, and guidelines for software delivery.
• Makes significant impactful decisions on solutions for product reviews and contribute to RFPs based on roadmaps/technical strategies, enterprise security standards and architectures.
• Serves as a thought leader, influencing across the company and industry on optimum approaches to software delivery balancing innovation, security, compliance, and cost.
• Drives and facilitates discussions with stakeholders on high‑level guidance to maintain current technology standards and guidelines, recommend modifications as needed, and ensure new efforts fit within defined strategies and software delivery practices.
• Drives adoption of methodologies and criteria for enterprise‑level decisions to drive advancement and standardization in solution architecture outputs and delivery.
• Acts as a trusted technology change agent through hands‑on leadership encouraging and demonstrating continuous improvement in software delivery.
• Mentors, coaches, and trains members of software/solution delivery teams, as well as other technologists across Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines.
• Researches emerging technology trends through exploration, evaluation, and proof‑of‑concept efforts.

This Senior Principal Application Solutions Architect role is a unique opportunity to define the future of Alaska’s digital ecosystem across web, mobile, content, and backend services. You’ll lead the vision and modernization of a complex, cross‑domain application landscape spanning multiple business portfolios, technologies, and guest touchpoints—driving consistency across platforms, enabling personalization, and improving speed to market. Partnering closely with senior leaders across engineering, product, marketing, design, and data, you’ll shape the roadmap, introduce AI‑driven and API‑first approaches, and help unify teams around a simpler, more scalable architecture that elevates the end‑to‑end guest experience.

• 10 years of software engineering and/or application architecture experience.
• Bachelor’s degree, or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
• Deep knowledge of application and compute platforms/concepts such as cloud service offerings, containers and their orchestration, microservices, etc. as they relate to enterprise software delivery.
• Adept at designing, developing, and delivering engaging user experiences for both business and technical audiences.
• Clear and concise verbal, written, and presentation abilities with demonstrated experience in making effective presentations to different audiences.
• Experience architecting, implementing, and reviewing large system implementations and producing audience appropriate visuals.
• Skilled at creating policy and governance resources with respect to technology delivery.
• Experience guiding proofs of concept with different technologies to arrive at…