Distinguished Enterprise Architect, Flights

Priceline.com LLC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 185,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellness coverage

Generous time off & PTO

Work/life balance options

Retirement plans & life/disability

Travel perks & discounts

Miscellaneous discounts

Job summary

Priceline is seeking a Distinguished Enterprise Architect for Flights to define and evolve end-to-end flight architecture, spanning search, shopping, pricing, availability, booking, and post-booking experiences. You will lead cross-functional teams, set a pragmatic roadmap, and ensure scalable, secure foundations that enable rapid innovation.

You will shape integration patterns with internal platforms, airline systems, and third-party tech, while advocating best practices in API design, CI/CD,

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering and architecture.
• Experience in Growth/MarTech, cloud, microservices, experimentation, data pipelines, AI/ML (incl. generative AI).
• Fluency in API design (gRPC/REST/GraphQL), DevOps/CI/CD, QA, and observability/SRE practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Flights target-state architecture aligned to business objectives.
• Design distributed, scalable, secure, cost-effective flight systems across search, pricing, availability, booking and post-booking.
• Champion engineering best practices across APIs, DevOps, QA, SRE, security and AI/ML capabilities.

Skills

Architecture strategy

Cloud & microservices

APIs (gRPC/REST/GraphQL)

DevOps/CI/CD

SRE/Observability

AI/ML

Java/Spring

Node.js ecosystem

GCP (BigQuery, GKE)

Tools

Node.js

Java/Spring

GCP

Job description

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: 2 days in-office

Distinguished Enterprise Architect, Flights

Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place.

Why this job’s a big deal:

As 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.

The salary range for this position is $185,000- $215,000K CAD.

We Are Priceline

WE ARE PRICELINE. Our success as one of the biggest players in online travel is all thanks to our incredible, dedicated team of talented employees. Priceliners are focused on being the best travel deal makers in the world, motivated by our passion to help everyone experience the moments that matter most in their lives. Whether it’s a dream vacation, your cousin’s graduation, or your best friend’s wedding - we make travel affordable and accessible to our customers. Our culture is unique and inspiring (that’s what our employees tell us). We’re a grown‑up, startup. We deliver the excitement of a new venture, without the struggles and chaos that can come with a business that hasn’t stabilized. We’re on the cutting edge of innovative technologies. We keep the customer at the center of all that we do. Our ability to meet their needs relies on the strength of a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration. Priceline is part of the Booking Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKNG) family of companies, a highly profitable global online travel company with a market capitalization of over $80 billion. Our sister companies include Booking.com, BookingGo, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable.

Flexible work at Priceline

Priceline is following a hybrid working model, which includes two days onsite as determined by you and your manager (ideally selecting among Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday). On the remaining days, you can choose to be remote or in the office.

Perks & Benefits at Priceline

Our benefits are designed to support your health, wellbeing, and life inside and outside of work. Eligible Priceliners have access to:

• Health & wellness coverage including medical, dental, vision, and mental health resources
• Generous time off including PTO, holidays, a company-wide Priceline Pause reset week, and paid volunteer days
• Work/life support including the ability to work up to 4 weeks per year from anywhere, parental leave, dependent care and family support resources, Summer Fridays, and office perks like stocked kitchens and catered meals (varies by location)
• Financial security programs such as retirement plans with company contributions, life and disability coverage, and tax-advantaged accounts
• Signature travel perks including employee-only discounts on hotels and flights, VIP deals, and Big Deal Bucks credits
• Additional perks & discounts like travel and partner discounts, tuition support, legal support, and pet benefits
• A people‑first culture with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), social events, recognition programs, and service awards that help you connect, grow, and celebrate together

Inclusion is a Big Deal!

Specific benefits and programs vary by location. Inclusion is a Big Deal! To be the best travel dealmakers in the world, we believe our team should reflect the broad range of customers and communities we serve. We are committed to cultivating a culture where all employees have the freedom to bring their individual perspectives, life experiences, and passion to work.

We’re a proud equal opportunity employer.

We embrace and celebrate the unique lenses through which our employees see the world. We’d love for you to join us and help shape what makes our team extraordinary.