Principal Application Architect - Front End

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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.

As a Principal Application Architect - Front End, you'll be responsible for engineering management, implementation, configuration and operationalization of a large AWS cloud-based enterprise application suite that our employees use globally at all airports. 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 Jet Application which is of large 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
• Develops documentation to support the application and as a guide for establishing common practices across the platform
• Partners 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.
• Communicates regularly and effectively with senior technology leadership
• Coordinate effort with external stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of dependent components
• Ensures solutions are clearly communicated for implementation, deliverables are of acceptable quality
• Ensures compliance of architectural and engineering policies, standards and procedures
• Monitor and stay abreast of industry trends and anticipate future direction of application development and cloud computing

• Bachelor's Degree in Technology discipline
• Experience with Micro frontend or Module Federation architecture, Angular or React, Redux or Flux data patterns.
• Experience with hosting frontends with usage of cloud platform like AWS, GCP and serverless technologies, services and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc.).
• 7+ years of end-to-end software solution development, implementation and operationalization experience
• Experience with .NET, MVC, Bootstrap, Angular development or similar Experience with usage of cloud platform like AWS, GCP and serverless technologies, services and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc.) or similar
• Experience with Angular v17+, including Signals, standalone components, zoneless change detection, and other modern Angular capabilities
• Proven ability to re‑architect legacy Angular applications into modern, modular, high‑performance solutions
• Experience designing and delivering micro‑frontend architectures using Angular
• Experience building…