Priceline

Distinguished Enterprise Architect, Flights

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1 day ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve the Flights target-state architecture, roadmap, milestones, standards, and guardrails.
  • Design distributed systems for flight search, shopping, pricing, availability, booking, and post-booking experiences.
  • Define integration patterns, API and data contracts, ownership boundaries, and SLAs across internal, airline, supplier, and third-party systems.
  • Drive AI/ML, experimentation, analytics, feature-flag, and data-driven product capabilities across the Flights journey.
  • Lead build/buy/partner analyses, proofs of concept, TCO/ROI assessments, architecture governance, compliance, and technical-debt management.
  • Coach senior and staff engineers and improve engineering and architectural practices across the Flights organization.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture.
  • Significant experience with Growth/MarTech, cloud, microservices, experimentation, data pipelines, AI/ML including generative AI, and privacy-by-design.
  • Hands-on software engineering background with API design using gRPC, REST, or GraphQL, plus DevOps/CI/CD, QA, and observability/SRE practices.
  • Proficiency in the Node.js ecosystem and Java/Spring ecosystem.
  • Cloud-native experience, ideally with GCP, GKE, and BigQuery.
  • Familiarity with marketing analytics, headless CMS, CDPs, SEO/SEM, and Core Web Vitals.
  • Ability to communicate clearly, frame complex problems, influence executives and engineers, and make strategic technology decisions.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with two days onsite and remaining days remote or in office.
  • Medical, dental, vision, and mental health coverage.
  • Paid time off, holidays, a company-wide reset week, and paid volunteer days.
  • Up to four weeks of work from anywhere per year, parental leave, dependent-care and family-support resources, Summer Fridays, stocked kitchens, and catered meals where available.
  • Retirement plans with company contributions, life and disability coverage, and tax-advantaged accounts.
  • Employee discounts on hotels and flights, VIP deals, and travel credits.
  • Travel and partner discounts, tuition support, legal support, and pet benefits.
  • Employee resource groups, social events, recognition programs, and service awards.

Tech Stack

Google BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLgRPCJavaNode.js

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About Priceline

1,001-5,000 employees

Priceline operates an online travel booking platform where consumers reserve hotels, flights, rental cars, and vacation packages. Its business model combines merchant and agency arrangements, earning commissions and fees on travel reservations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, Priceline is a brand within Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG).

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