Senior Enterprise Integration Platform Lead

United Airlines

Chicago (IL)

On-site

USD 112,000 - 147,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

United Airlines is hiring a Senior Enterprise Integration Platform Developer / Technical Lead in Chicago to design, develop, and support enterprise integration solutions connecting SaaS, cloud, ERP, and internal apps.

The role requires hands‑on leadership, delivering APIs, event‑driven solutions, and reusable platform components while guiding teams through security, architecture, and operations. You will mentor developers and drive platform standards.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a technical discipline.
3+ years hands-on experience developing, integrating, and supporting enterprise applications, APIs, backend services, or integration platforms.
Experience delivering integration solutions across SaaS, cloud, ERP, and internally developed applications.
Proven ability to independently lead complex technical initiatives across multiple applications and cross-functional teams.
Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and root-cause analysis skills across applications, APIs, integrations, messaging, databases, and cloud services.
Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to clearly communicate technical decisions, alternatives, risks, dependencies, and recommendations.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support enterprise APIs, integration services, event‑driven solutions, message flows, protocol adapters, and file‑based interfaces connecting cloud, SaaS, ERP, and internal applications.
Lead the end‑to‑end technical delivery of complex integration initiatives, including requirements analysis, solution design, development, testing, risk management, deployment, stabilization, and ongoing support.
Develop reusable integration components, services, templates, frameworks, and implementation patterns that reduce point‑to‑point interfaces and improve delivery consistency across application teams.
Lead onboarding of applications to the enterprise integration platform by providing technical guidance, reviewing integration designs, resolving platform dependencies, and ensuring compliance with security and engineering standards.
Contribute to platform architecture, API lifecycle management, system design, capacity planning, scalability, resiliency, observability, and long‑term technology roadmaps.
Establish and promote engineering standards for API design, messaging, data transformation, exception handling, retries, idempotency, reconciliation, logging, monitoring, and operational support.
Develop clean, scalable, maintainable, secure, well‑tested, and documented code. Lead design and code reviews and ensure solutions meet enterprise architecture, performance, security, audit, and compliance requirements.
Collaborate with product, architecture, security, infrastructure, QA, DevOps, business application, and vendor teams to translate functional and nonfunctional requirements into scalable integration solutions.
Troubleshoot complex production issues across APIs, integrations, messaging platforms, databases, cloud services, and dependent applications; perform root‑cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions.
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment automation, monitoring, and platform engineering improvements that increase delivery efficiency and operational reliability.
Serve as a technical leader and subject matter expert by mentoring developers, communicating design decisions and tradeoffs, coordinating delivery across teams, and influencing technical direction.
Use approved AI‑assisted development tools to improve development, testing, documentation, and code‑review efficiency while maintaining engineering, security, privacy, and quality standards.