Principal Architect

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**Description**:
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.

**Job overview and responsibilities**
The Principal Architect - Data Analytic & AI leads efforts to mature Cyber security Analytical and AI capabilities for United Airlines. This is a critical part of a cross-disciplinary Cyber team responsible for full stack security Analytics and AI. In this role the Architect will work on the creation and maintenance of Cybersecurity Analytics an AI Platform and partner with product, platform, engineering, and operations teams to ensure the adoption. The role with help continuously improves Analytics and AI feature functions and associated playbooks, workflows, processes, and procedures.
- Subject matter expert technology in domains such as business intelligence dashboards, AI and Agentic workflows
- Subject matter expert in technology AWS Data Lake, AWS Quick sight, AWS Bedrock, Python, Lang Graph Agentic workflows
- Develop and promote security and resiliency architecture strategies, frameworks and patterns while partnering closely with other cybersecurity teams and collaborating with partner organization
- Actively partner with stakeholders to understand business requirements and develop supporting security and resiliency principles to ensure adoption of industry and enterprise best practices
- Assists in defining and implementing Security Standards/frameworks.
- Serve as a champion for secure infrastructure-as-code for end-to-end configuration and overall success of the IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments
- Ensures program(s) is meeting intended purpose and metrics

**This position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded. This position is for United Airlines Business Services Pvt. Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of United Airlines Inc.**

**Qualifications**:
**What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications)**:

- Bachelor's degree
- 9+ years of technical experience
- 5 years directly related to cloud
- Expert knowledge of cloud service providers (e.g., AWS as primary, Azure, GCP are plus)
- Expert knowledge of security protocols, cryptography, and secure network architectures
- Expert with scripting and automation tools
- Expert knowledge of AWS Data lake,AWS Glue, AWS QuickSight, Python
- Expert knowledge of network security and data encryption
- Expert knowledge in security automation and orchestration
- Ability to manage business and external partners
- Ability to work independently and self-motivate
- Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, interpersonal, collaboration, written and verbal communication skills
- Must be legally authorized to work in India for any employer without sponsorship
- Must be fluent in English (written and spoken)
- Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
- Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position

**What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications)**:

- Master's degree
- AWS Solution Architect Pro., Networking, and Security Specializations
- CISSP, ISSAP, ISSEP, ISSMP
- CISM, CRISC, CEH, GIAC Family
- CKA and Security (Kubernetes)
- 10+ years of technical experience
- 7 years directly related to cloud