Enterprise Architect and Lead

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Job Title: Enterprise Architect and Lead

Position Type: Fulltime with Prime Vendor

Location: Chicago, IL

End Client: United Airlines

Overview

We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect and Lead to provide architectural leadership and technical guidance across projects in the Travel & Hospitality domain. This role will oversee engineering teams, drive solution design, and act as the go-to person for architectural/solution decisions and best practices.

Key Responsibilities

Define enterprise architecture strategy and roadmaps.Lead architecture governance and review boards.Translate business needs into scalable technology solutions.Provide end-to-end solution architecture oversight.Define cloud, integration, and data architecture strategies.Support RFPs and technical evaluations.Manage client stakeholders and provide technical leadership.Mentor, lead, and guide teams and ensure adherence to architecture standards and best practices.Drive thought leadership and promote the adoption of emerging technologies.Lead AI/GenAI POCs and innovation initiatives, including identification and leading development of relevant use cases in collaboration with the other teams.Collaborate cross-functionally with business, product, and engineering teams to ensure alignment.

Required Skills

Strong expertise in AWS cloud, including architecting, designing, developing, and managing scalable, resilient, and secure AWS services. Hands-on experience with AWS compute, storage, databases, networking, and security, etc.Proficient in AWS DevOps, SRE practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, containerization and orchestration, monitoring, and observability.Experience in cloud cost optimization best practices to support enterprise-grade cloud solutions.Experience designing and implementing microservices-based architectures, with a strong focus on API-first design principles and building event-driven systems using messaging and streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, MQ, Solace) to enable scalable, loosely coupled, and resilient applications.Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF)Experience in cloud migration and modernization.Understanding of the Aviation domain, including:NOC (Network Operations Control), FLIFO,Baggage systemsReservation, GDS integration, etc.Strong stakeholder management and leadership skillsExperience in secure coding practices and application security.Experience with programming languages such as Java, .NET, or Python.Cloud Architect certificationTOGAF certificationExperience with SolaceExperience across broader hospitality domains outside of airlines (Airports, hotels, cruise, restaurants, etc.)Experience with Azure and Google Cloud Platform cloud.

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field