Distinguished Enterprise Architect, Flights

About the role

Priceline's Technology team is looking for a Distinguished Enterprise Architect for its Flights portfolio. The role defines and evolves the architecture behind the end-to-end flight experience, from search and discovery through shopping, pricing, availability, booking and post-booking. It connects Product, Technology, Data, AI/ML and third-party supplier capabilities, and is eligible for a hybrid model of two days in the office.

Key responsibilities

• Define the Flights target-state architecture with a phased roadmap and milestones, and design distributed systems for search, shopping, pricing, availability, booking and post-booking.
• Partner with Product and Technology leaders on integration patterns, API/data contracts, ownership and SLAs across internal platforms, airline and supplier systems and third-party technologies.
• Drive AI/ML capabilities such as personalized search ranking, generative booking assistance, pricing and demand forecasting, and anomaly detection.
• Lead architecture governance, standards, technical debt management and compliance, and coach senior and staff engineers.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and lead build/buy/partner analyses, proofs of concept and TCO/ROI assessments.
• Enable data-driven product development through analytics, A/B testing, feature flags and experimentation patterns.

Required profile

• 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 engineering background and hands-on experience with gRPC/REST/GraphQL, DevOps/CI/CD, QA and observability/SRE.
• Cloud-native experience, ideally GCP (GKE, BigQuery).
• Familiarity with MarTech platforms such as marketing analytics, headless CMS, CDPs, SEO/SEM and Core Web Vitals.
• Clear communication with executives, peers and engineers, and a bias for simplicity.

Required skills

• Node.js and Java/Spring ecosystems
• API design (gRPC, REST, GraphQL)
• DevOps/CI/CD, QA, observability/SRE
• Cloud-native architectures, preferably GCP

What we offer

• Salary range of $185,000-$215,000 CAD, with possible annual bonus and/or equity grant.
• Hybrid work: two days in the office, the rest remote or in the office.
• Health, dental, vision and mental health coverage, generous time off, work-from-anywhere option up to 4 weeks per year, parental leave and retirement plans.
• Employee travel discounts, tuition and legal support, ERGs and social events.