Senior Principal Mobile Architect: Enterprise Mobility & Governance

Alaska Airlines, Inc.; SeaTac (WA); On-site; USD 178,000 - 276,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free stand-by travel privileges

Travel credits

Medical, dental and vision benefits

401k match

Annual bonus

Paid time off

Job summary

Alaska Airlines is seeking a Senior Principal Mobile Solutions Architect to lead governance and best practices for software engineering across Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines. You will set standards, drive architecture roadmaps, and ensure security, cost, and scalability in delivery.

You will collaborate with senior leaders across engineering, product, marketing, and design to modernize a cross-domain mobile ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 10 years of software engineering or application architecture experience.
• Bachelor’s degree, or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
• Deep knowledge of application and compute platforms/concepts such as cloud service offerings, containers and their orchestration, microservices, etc. as they relate to enterprise software delivery.
• Adept at designing, developing, and delivering engaging user experiences for both business and technical audiences.
• Clear and concise verbal, written, and presentation abilities with demonstrated experience in making effective presentations to different audiences.
• Experience architecting, implementing, and reviewing large system implementations and producing audience appropriate visuals.
• Skilled at creating policy and governance resources with respect to technology delivery.
• Experience guiding proofs of concept with different technologies to arrive at optimum business solutions.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum age of 18.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Defines long-term strategy for software design, implementation, and documentation of associated technologies and products in use throughout the airline.
• Designs and implements technology roadmaps, standards, methodologies, processes, and guidelines for software delivery.
• Makes significant impactful decisions on solutions for product reviews and contribute to RFPs based on roadmaps/technical strategies, enterprise security standards and architectures.
• Serves as a thought leader, influencing across the company and industry on optimum approaches to software delivery balancing innovation, security, compliance, and cost.
• Drives and facilitates discussions with stakeholders on high-level guidance to maintain current technology standards and guidelines, recommend modifications as needed, and ensure new efforts fit within defined strategies and software delivery practices.
• Drives adoption of methodologies and criteria for enterprise-level decisions to drive advancement and standardization in solution architecture outputs and delivery.
• Acts as a trusted technology change agent through hands-on leadership encouraging and demonstrating continuous improvement in software delivery.
• Mentors, coaches, and trains members of software/solution delivery teams, as well as other technologists across Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines.
• Researches emerging technology trends thorough exploration, evaluation, and proof-of-concept efforts.

Skills

Software architecture

Cloud services

Containers & orchestration

Microservices

User experience design

Presentations

Large system implementations

Policy & governance

Prototyping / PoCs

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Alaska Airlines is seeking a Senior Principal Mobile Solutions Architect to lead governance and best practices for software engineering across Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines. You will set standards, drive architecture roadmaps, and ensure security, cost, and scalability in delivery.

You will collaborate with senior leaders across engineering, product, marketing, and design to modernize a cross-domain mobile ecosystem.