Principal Enterprise Architect

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: 2 days in-office

Principal Enterprise Architect, FinTech

Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you're in the right place. 

Why this job's a big deal: 

As the Principal Enterprise Architect for FinTech, you'll define the architectural vision and technical strategy that unify payments, invoicing, accounting, reconciliation, and financial analytics across Priceline's platforms.

This role raises the architectural bar for Priceline's FinTech systems—you'll shape the next-generation architecture that underpins all of Priceline's business operations. You'll ensure robust, secure, and scalable integration with Priceline's products. You'll also enable faster close cycles, real-time insights, and smarter decision-making for the business.

In this role, you will get to:

• Define and evolve the target-state FinTech architecture aligned to Priceline's long-term business and technology objectives, with a pragmatic, phased roadmap and measurable interim milestones.

• Design complex, distributed systems that are reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective—grounded in explicit trade-offs and consistent with Priceline's infrastructure and operations standards.

• Partner with Finance, Accounting, Risk, and Engineering leaders to increase transparency, control, and agility in financial decision-making.

• Deliver AI/ML-driven improvements in anomaly detection, forecasting, fraud-risk scoring, and reconciliation automation, in partnership with Finance, Accounting, Risk, and Engineering leaders.

• Partner with business unit leaders and Enterprise Architects to drive well-founded technology choices and establish scalable, reusable patterns and platform-aligned designs across teams.

• Evaluate emerging technologies, architectural patterns, and vendors—leading build/buy/partner analyses, proofs of concept, and TCO/ROI assessments to de-risk decisions.

• Lead architecture governance by codifying standards and guardrails, managing technical debt, ensuring compliance, and reducing architectural risk.

• Coach senior and staff engineers, uplevel engineering practices, and cultivate a culture of clarity, simplicity, and continuous improvement.

Who you are:

• Strategic thinker and clear communicator who can influence executives, peers, and engineers.

• 10+ years in software engineering and architecture, with experience across financial systems, integration patterns, API-first design, cloud, microservices, data pipelines, and AI/ML (including generative AI).

• Hands-on software engineering background (strong preference for Java/Spring Boot and Python) with fluency in API design (gRPC/REST/GraphQL), DevOps/CI/CD, testing/QA, and observability/SRE practices.

• Experience building event streaming and data pipelines using Kafka and tools such as Informatica Cloud (IICS), GCP Dataflow, Spark, Airflow, and dbt.

• Proficient in data modeling across relational and non-relational stores, selecting fit-for-purpose datastores with the right access pattern, consistency, resiliency, indexing, and partitioning strategies.

• Proficient in one or more ERP platform ecosystems—ideally Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI).

• Cloud-native experience—ideally GCP (GKE, Dataflow, Cloud Composer, Dataproc, BigQuery, Looker, Vertex AI).

• Experience working in environments requiring PCI DSS, SOX, SOC 2, and GDPR, with strong practices in auditability, traceability, and data governance.

• Bias for clarity and simplicity—reducing complexity and enabling teams to move faster and smarter.

• Analytical problem-framer who reduces ambiguity into clear, actionable components.

• Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability, and Trust.

• The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it's a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics are essential.

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Our success as one of the biggest players in online travel is all thanks to our incredible, dedicated team of talented employees. Priceliners are focused on being the best travel deal makers in the world, motivated by our passion to help everyone experience the moments that matter most in their lives. Whether it's a dream vacation, your cousin's graduation, or your best friend's wedding - we make travel affordable and accessible to our customers. 

Our culture is unique and inspiring (that's what our employees tell us). We're a grown-up, startup. We deliver the excitement of a new venture, without the struggles and chaos that can come with a business that hasn't stabilized.  

We're on the cutting edge of innovative technologies. We keep the customer at the center of all that we do. Our ability to meet their needs relies on the strength of a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

Priceline is part of the Booking Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKNG) family of companies, a highly profitable global online travel company with a market capitalization of over $80 billion. Our sister companies include , BookingGo, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable. 

If you want to be part of something truly special, check us out 

Priceline is following a hybrid working model, which includes two days onsite as determined by you and your manager (ideally selecting among Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday). On the remaining days, you can choose to be remote or in the office.

To be the best travel dealmakers in the world, we believe our team should reflect the broad range of customers and communities we serve. We are committed to cultivating a culture where all employees have the freedom to bring their individual perspectives, life experiences, and passion to work.

Priceline is a proud equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate the unique lenses through which our employees see the world. We'd love for you to join us and help shape what makes our team extraordinary.

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