Job Location: Chicago, IL
Description
There’s never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines. We’re on a path towards becoming the best airline in the history of aviation. And we’re growing – in the years ahead, we’ll hire tens of thousands of people across every area of the airline. Our careers include competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you happy, healthy, and well-traveled. From employee-run “Business Resource Group” communities to world-class benefits like parental leave, 401k, and privileges like space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work. Are you ready to travel the world?
We believe that inclusion propels innovation and is the foundation of all that we do. United’s Digital Technology team spans the globe and is made up of diverse individuals all working together with pioneering technology to make United the best airline in the history of aviation.
Responsibilities
- Partner cross functionally to define and implement data acquisition, transformation, processing and make data concrete 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
- Apply programming languages like Java, Scala, Python with RDBMS, NoSQL databases and Cloud based data warehousing like AWS Redshift
- Implement 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 multi-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 Agile methodologies to lead projects
- Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related STEM field, Master’s preferred
- 4-8+ years IT experience in software development
- 5+ years development experience using Java, Python, Scala
- 5+ years experience with technologies like Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Glue
- 3+ years experience with AWS public cloud
- 4+ years experience with relational database systems like MS SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata
- 3+ years experience working on streaming data applications (Spark Streaming, Kafka, Kinesis, and Flink)
- Certifications: AWS Certified Developer – Associate or Professional , AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional ,AWS Certified Specialty certification – (Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning)
- 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
- Working with or supporting containerized environments (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes/Docker)
- Git for version control useful
- Strong experience with continuous integration & delivery using Agile methodologies preferred
- Experience with Data Quality tools including Deequ or Apache Griffin a bonus
- Experience building PySpark based services in a production environment a bonus
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation.
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