Distinguished Enterprise Architect, Flights

PRICELINE CAREERS; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 185,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Priceline is seeking a Distinguished Enterprise Architect for Flights to define and evolve the Flights architecture across search, pricing, booking and post-booking experiences.

You will lead distributed systems, partner with Product and Tech leaders, champion DevOps and AI/ML capabilities, and steer architecture governance while mentoring engineers.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering and architecture with cloud, microservices and data pipelines.
• Hands-on background with API design (REST/GRPC/GraphQL) and DevOps/CI/CD.
• Fluency in Node.js and Java/Spring ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the Flights target-state architecture with a phased roadmap.
• Design complex distributed systems for search, shopping, pricing, availability and booking.
• Collaborate with Product and Technology leaders to define integration patterns and SLAs.
• Champion engineering practices across APIs, DevOps, QA, SRE, security and AI/ML.
• Drive AI/ML capabilities across the flight journey and enable data-driven product development.
• Lead architecture governance and mentor engineers.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud architecture

Microservices

AI/ML

API design

DevOps/CI-CD

SRE/Observability

Data pipelines

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Tools

Node.js

Java/Spring

GCP

BigQuery

REST/GraphQL

Job description

Location

Toronto

Technology

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

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.

There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. In addition to a competitive base salary, certain roles may be eligible for an annual bonus and/or equity grant.

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