Lead Data Engineer

Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using our extensive route network.

Come join us to create what’s next. Let’s define tomorrow, together.

Description

United's Digital Technology team designs, develops, and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.

Our Values: At United Airlines, we believe that inclusion propels innovation and is the foundation of all that we do. Our Shared Purpose: "Connecting people. Uniting the world." drives us to be the best airline for our employees, customers, and everyone we serve, and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. Our team spans the globe and is made up of diverse individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation.

With multiple employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities and world-class benefits like health insurance, parental leave, and space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work that will make you feel welcome and accepted. Come join our team and help us make a positive impact on the world.

Job Overview And Responsibilities

The United Data Engineering team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions that are brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics and digital solutions. The Data Engineering team is building a modern data technology platform in the cloud with advanced DevOps and Machine Learning capabilities.

The Data Engineering team at United Airlines is on a transformational journey to unlock the full potential of enterprise data, build a

dynamic, diverse and inclusive culture and develop a modern cloud-based data lake architecture to scale our applications, and drive growth

using data and machine learning. Our objective is to enable the enterprise to unleash the potential of data through innovation and agile

thinking, and to execute on an effective data strategy to transform business processes, rapidly accelerate time to market and enable

insightful decision making. United Airlines is seeking talented people to join the Data Engineering team. Data Engineering organization is

responsible for driving data driven insights & innovation to support the data needs for commercial and operational projects with a digital

focus.

• Partner with various teams to define and execute data acquisition, transformation, processing and make data actionable for operational and analytics initiatives that create sustainable revenue and share growth
• Design, develop, and implement streaming and near-real time data pipelines that feed systems that are the operational backbone of our business
• Utilize programming languages like Java, Scala, Python with RDBMS, NoSQL databases and Cloud based data warehousing like AWS Redshift
• Execute unit tests and validating expected results to ensure accuracy & integrity of data and applications through analysis, coding, writing clear documentation and problem resolution
• Drive the adoption of data processing and analysis using AWS services and help cross train other members of the team
• Leverage strategic and analytical skills to understand and solve customer and business centric questions
• Coordinate and guide cross-functional projects that involve team members across all areas of the enterprise, vendors, external agencies and partners
• Leverage data from a variety of sources to develop data marts and insights that provide a comprehensive understanding of the business
• Develop and implement innovative solutions leading to automation
• Mentor and train junior engineers
• Use of Agile methodologies to manage projects
• Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies
• Expand and share your passion by staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, and mentoring other members of the engineering community
• Work with a team of developers with deep experience in Digital technology, machine learning, distributed micro services, and full stack systems
  
  

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 - External

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related STEM field
• Experience with relational database systems like MS SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata
• Excellent O/S knowledge and experience in Linux or Windows with basic knowledge of the other
• MCSE/RHCE or equivalent level of knowledge preferred
• Experience of implementing and supporting AWS based instances and services (e.g. EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route53, Cloud front, Elastic cache, WAF etc.)
• Scripting ability in one or more of Python, Bash, Perl
• Git for version control useful
• Working with or supporting containerized environments (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes/Docker)
• Agile engineering practices
• 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
  
  

Qualifications

Preferred

• Masters in computer science or related STEM field
• Experience with cloud based systems like AWS, AZURE
• Strong experience with continuous integration & delivery using Agile methodologies
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate or Professional
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional
• AWS Certified Specialty certification – (Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning)
• Experience with continuous integration & delivery using Agile methods
• Experience with Data Quality tolls including Deequ or Apache Griffin
• Experience building PySpark based services in a production environment
  
  

GGN00001797