Principal Architect - Unified Search & Booking (Hybrid)

Priceline.com LLC; Norwalk (CT); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off & holidays

Remote work option

Equity or bonus eligibility

Retirement plans

Employee travel perks

Job summary

Priceline is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect for Unified Search & Book to define the architectural vision and strategy across search, AI-powered discovery, and checkout platforms. You will partner with Engineering, Product, Data, and platform teams to establish ownership and scalable integration patterns.

The role emphasizes cloud-native, API-first design, and modernization efforts while guiding teams toward high performance and reliability in travel-commerce journeys.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering and architecture across search, e-commerce, or related domains.
• Experience designing scalable, API-first, cloud-native architectures.
• Strong leadership with ability to influence executives and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term architecture vision for Search & Book with practical roadmaps.
• Strengthen search resolution, typeahead, AI-powered discovery, and checkout systems for speed and reliability.
• Lead modernization to reduce technical debt and improve governance across platforms.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Technical leadership

Java/Spring Boot

Python

API design

Event-driven systems

Cloud-native

Tools

GKE

AlloyDB

Spanner

BigQuery

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

Kafka

Job description

Priceline is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect for Unified Search & Book to define the architectural vision and strategy across search, AI-powered discovery, and checkout platforms. You will partner with Engineering, Product, Data, and platform teams to establish ownership and scalable integration patterns.

The role emphasizes cloud-native, API-first design, and modernization efforts while guiding teams toward high performance and reliability in travel-commerce journeys.