This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: 2 days in-office
Distinguished Enterprise Architect, FlightsAs a Distinguished Enterprise Architect for Flights, you'll define and evolve the architecture that powers Priceline's end-to-end flight experience-from search and discovery through shopping, pricing, availability, booking, and post-booking experiences.
This role raises the architectural bar for Priceline's Flights portfolio-building reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective foundations that enable rapid innovation across the flight journey. You'll connect Product, Technology, Data, AI/ML, and third-party supplier capabilities to create seamless, high-performing flight experiences at scale. Your work will support today's priorities while creating the architectural foundation for future innovation. You'll operationalize data, measurement, and experimentation, using A/B testing, feature flags, and other modern capabilities to continuously improve the Flights experience.
In this role, you will get to:- Define and evolve the Flights target-state architecture aligned to Priceline's long-term business and technology objectives, with a pragmatic, phased roadmap and clearly defined interim milestones.
- Design complex, distributed systems supporting flight search, shopping, pricing, availability, booking, and post-booking experiences that are reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective-grounded in explicit trade-offs and consistent with Priceline's infrastructure and operations standards.
- Partner with Product and Technology leaders to design end-to-end Flights solutions across internal platforms, airline and supplier systems, and third-party technologies-defining integration patterns, API/data contracts, clear ownership boundaries, and SLAs.
- Champion engineering best practices across key domains, including software design, APIs, DevOps/CI/CD, QA, SRE/observability, cloud, data, AI/ML, security, and experimentation, partnering with domain experts to unlock innovation and operational efficiency.
- Drive AI/ML-driven capabilities across the flight journey - personalized search/shopping ranking, generative and agentic booking assistance, pricing and demand-forecasting models, and anomaly detection for booking/pricing failures - partnering with Data/AI and Product leaders.
- Partner with Flights business leaders, Product leaders, and Enterprise Architects to drive well-founded technology choices and ensure scalable, reusable, and platform-aligned architectural patterns across the portfolio.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, architectural patterns, and travel industry capabilities to shape strategic roadmaps-leading build/buy/partner analyses, proofs of concept, and TCO/ROI assessments to de-risk decisions.
- Define and evolve architecture supporting flight supplier integrations, content, pricing, availability, and distribution, ensuring solutions can scale as the Flights ecosystem and partner landscape evolve.
- Enable data-driven product development by establishing architectural patterns for analytics, experimentation, A/B testing, feature flags, and AI/ML capabilities across the Flights experience.
- Lead architecture governance, codifying standards and guardrails, managing technical debt, ensuring compliance, and minimizing architectural and operational risk.
- Coach senior and staff engineers, uplevel engineering and architectural practices, and cultivate a culture of clarity, simplicity, scalability, and continuous improvement across the Flights organization.
Who you are:- Strategic thinker and clear communicator who can influence executives, peers, and engineers.
- 12+ years in software engineering and architecture, with significant experience in Growth/MarTech, cloud, microservices, experimentation, data pipelines, AI/ML (including generative AI), and privacy-by-design.
- Hands-on software engineering background with fluency in API design (gRPC/REST/GraphQL), DevOps/CI/CD, QA, and observability/SRE practices.
- Proficient in the Node.js ecosystem and Java/Spring ecosystem.
- Cloud-native experience-ideally GCP (GKE, BigQuery).
- Familiar with key MarTech platforms and concerns-marketing analytics, headless CMS, CDPs, SEO/SEM, and Core Web Vitals.
- 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.
There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. In addition to a competitive base salary, certain roles may be eligible for an annual bonus and/or equity grant.
The salary range for this position is $185,000- $215,000K CAD.
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