Cloud Data Engineer – Global Travel Opportunity

United; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 94,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Commuter Benefits

Paid Holidays

Paid Time Off

401(k)

Flight Privileges

Job summary

United Airlines is seeking a Data Engineer in Chicago to architect, build, and maintain scalable data infrastructure supporting end-to-end pipelines. You will ingest, preprocess, and analyze data to power accurate models and analytics.

Responsibilities include designing cloud-native data platforms, implementing real-time and batch pipelines with Spark, Python, and Databricks, and ensuring data quality. Collaboration across teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/engineering/math or related field.
• 2+ years of data engineering or related experience.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, Spark, and PySpark.
• Experience with AWS services (Kinesis, Redshift, Glue, Athena, S3).
• Ability to collaborate with business users and product owners to design optimized data pipelines.
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-performance, cloud-native infrastructure and services that accelerate innovation across United.
• Establish and maintain scalable containerized and serverless platforms, develop automation tools using AWS, and monitor data infrastructure.
• Design and develop resilient batch and real-time data pipelines using Spark, Python, Databricks, and Flink.
• Deliver scalable, maintainable data solutions with hands-on engineering.
• Support and optimize large-scale data pipelines within distributed, highly available environments.
• Stay current with cloud-native engineering and microservices architectures.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to improve platform scalability and resilience.
• Advance intelligent automation through modern AI technologies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into practical solutions.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

Pyspark

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or related field

Tools

AWS

Kinesis

Redshift

Glue

Athena

S3

Job description

United Airlines is seeking a Data Engineer in Chicago to architect, build, and maintain scalable data infrastructure supporting end-to-end pipelines. You will ingest, preprocess, and analyze data to power accurate models and analytics.

Responsibilities include designing cloud-native data platforms, implementing real-time and batch pipelines with Spark, Python, and Databricks, and ensuring data quality. Collaboration across teams is essential.