Senior Enterprise Architect – Unified Search & Booking (Hybrid)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Generous PTO

Work-life support

Retirement plan

Travel perks

Tuition support

Pet benefits

Job summary

Priceline is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect for Unified Search & Book to define architectural vision and technical strategy across search, recommendations, and booking platforms. You will drive performance, reliability, and scalability while partnering with product, data, and engineering teams.

The role emphasizes AI/ML opportunities, API-first design, and cloud-native patterns. Hybrid work model with in-office two days, plus remote options, and a focus on modernizing legacy systems.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering and architecture.
• Experience in search, recommendation, API-first and cloud-native architectures.
• Hands-on with Java/Spring Boot and Python.
• Experience with PCI DSS, SOX, SOC 2, GDPR.
• Ability to influence executives and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term architecture vision and roadmap.
• Strengthen search resolution, typeahead, AI-powered discovery, booking engine, and reservations systems.
• Design scalable distributed systems balancing performance and cost.
• Partner across teams to establish ownership and integration patterns.
• Create reusable API, event, data-exchange standards.
• Lead modernization efforts to reduce technical debt.
• Evaluate new technologies and ROI.
• Apply AI/ML to improve search relevance and checkout experience.
• Mentor senior and staff engineers.

Skills

Java / Spring Boot

Python

API design

Event-driven systems

Cloud-native (GCP)

OpenSearch / Elasticsearch

Kafka

PCI DSS / SOX / SOC 2 / GDPR

AI/ML in search

Leadership / mentoring

Tools

GKE

AlloyDB

Spanner

BigQuery

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

Kafka

Job description

Priceline is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect for Unified Search & Book to define architectural vision and technical strategy across search, recommendations, and booking platforms. You will drive performance, reliability, and scalability while partnering with product, data, and engineering teams.

The role emphasizes AI/ML opportunities, API-first design, and cloud-native patterns. Hybrid work model with in-office two days, plus remote options, and a focus on modernizing legacy systems.