Principal Front End React Architect – Information Technology

About the position

Find your future at United! We’re reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be – from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you’re joining a global team of 100,000+ connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward. Achieving our ambitions starts with supporting yours. Evolve your career and find your next opportunity. Get the care you need with industry-leading health plans and best-in-class programs to support your emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Expand your horizons with travel across the world’s biggest route network. Connect outside your team through employee-led Business Resource Groups. Create what’s next with us. Let’s define tomorrow together. 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.

Responsibilities
• Contribute to the development of multi-year plans in alignment with business and IT strategy.
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• Provide industry-leading thought leadership – and facilitate development of strategies across multiple subject areas/domains.
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• Facilitate development of architecture patterns and standards.
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• Lead enterprise architecture models and repositories.
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• Establish communities of practice in areas of expertise.
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• Coach and mentor other IT staff in area of expertise.
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• Provides an enterprise-wide perspective within the United IT division.
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• Leads architecture strategy & planning for large programs – and provides guidance to technical staff across multiple projects.

Requirements
• Minimum 7 – 10 years software development experience with front-end and .NET technologies in enterprise systems with high availability and performance requirements.
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• Solid React, Javascript, .NET core, CI/CD, SQL background.
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• Hands on experience with foundational AWS Services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, CloudTrail, CloudFront, Lambda, EKS, ECS, etc.).
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• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
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• Understanding of serverless technologies, services and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc.).

Nice-to-haves
• Master’s degree.
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• Experience in a retail environment a plus.

Benefits
• Medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability insurance.
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• Parental leave.
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• Employee assistance program.
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• Commuter benefits.
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• Paid holidays.
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• Paid time off.
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• 401(k) plan.
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• Flight privileges.