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Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using our extensive route network.Come join us to create what’s next. Let’s define tomorrow, together.\nDescription\nPosition Summary\nWe are seeking a Senior Enterprise Integration Platform Developer / Technical Lead to design, develop, and support enterprise integration solutions that connect SaaS, cloud, ERP, and internally developed applications.\nThis is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role responsible for developing integration services, APIs, events, message flows, protocol adapters, and reusable platform capabilities. The successful candidate will independently lead complex integration initiatives from requirements and solution design through development, testing, deployment, production stabilization, and ongoing support.\nThe role will provide technical direction, establish integration standards, guide application teams onboarding to the enterprise integration platform, mentor developers, and influence platform architecture. The individual will work closely with product, architecture, security, infrastructure, DevOps, business application, and vendor teams to deliver scalable, secure, supportable, and reusable integration solutions.\nThe position will support Finance and other enterprise application portfolios, including integrations with Oracle ERP and SaaS platforms, while helping advance the organization’s broader cloud, API, event-driven, and Finance transformation objectives.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, 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.\nLead the end-to-end technical delivery of complex integration initiatives, including requirements analysis, solution design, development, testing, risk management, production deployment, stabilization, and ongoing support.\nDevelop reusable integration components, services, templates, frameworks, and implementation patterns that reduce point-to-point interfaces and improve delivery consistency across application teams.\nLead 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.\nContribute to platform architecture, API lifecycle management, system design, capacity planning, scalability, resiliency, observability, and long-term technology roadmaps.\nEstablish and promote engineering standards for API design, messaging, data transformation, exception handling, retries, idempotency, reconciliation, logging, monitoring, and operational support.\nDevelop 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.\nCollaborate with product, architecture, security, infrastructure, QA, DevOps, business application, and vendor teams to translate functional and nonfunctional requirements into scalable integration solutions.\nTroubleshoot complex production issues across APIs, integrations, messaging platforms, databases, cloud services, and dependent applications; perform root-cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions.\nContribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment automation, monitoring, and platform engineering improvements that increase delivery efficiency and operational reliability.\nServe as a technical leader and subject matter expert by mentoring developers, communicating design decisions and tradeoffs, coordinating delivery across teams, and influencing technical direction.\nUse approved AI-assisted development tools to improve development, testing, documentation, and code-review efficiency while maintaining engineering, security, privacy, and quality standards.\nQualifications\nRequired Experience\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.\n3+ years of hands-on experience developing, integrating, and supporting enterprise applications, APIs, backend services, or integration platforms.\nDemonstrated experience designing and delivering integration solutions across SaaS, cloud, packaged, ERP, and internally developed applications.\nExperience supporting large-scale, highly integrated, business-critical production platforms and services.\nProven ability to independently lead complex technical initiatives across multiple applications and cross-functional teams, including design, development, testing, implementation, risk management, deployment, and post-production support.\nStrong technical leadership and engineering judgment, with experience leading design and code reviews, mentoring developers, establishing standards, and influencing technical direction.\nStrong troubleshooting, debugging, and root-cause analysis skills across applications, APIs, integrations, messaging technologies, databases, infrastructure, and cloud services.\nExcellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to clearly communicate technical decisions, alternatives, risks, dependencies, and recommendations.\nExperience working in a fast-paced Agile environment with concurrent platform, project-delivery, production-support, and modernization priorities.\nRequired Core Technical Skills\nStrong experience designing and supporting enterprise integrations using REST and SOAP services, APIs, JSON, XML, and FTP/SFTP interfaces.\nExperience with Enterprise integration platform such as- API gateways (Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway), protocol adapters/translation (SOAP, WCF, gRPC, XML-RPC), message brokers (Solace, Kafka, SQS/SNS), and file-based ingestion pipelines (SFTP/S3 → ETL/Lambda).\nExperience with API gateways, enterprise integration platforms, protocol adapters, message brokers, event-driven architectures, and file-ingestion patterns.\nExperience designing mappings, transformations, validations, routing, orchestration, exception handling, retries, idempotency, reconciliation, logging, monitoring, and alerting.\nStrong understanding of synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns, distributed systems, microservices, scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, and failure handling.\nExperience with API security and authentication patterns, including OAuth 2.0, certificates, tokens, secrets, and service-to-service access controls.\nExperience developing reusable integration services and patterns and supporting application onboarding to a shared enterprise platform.\nSoftware Engineering and Platform Engineering\nProficiency in at least one enterprise backend language, such as Java, C#, Python, Node.js, or Go.\nExperience with relational databases and SQL; exposure to NoSQL databases where applicable.\nExperience with a major cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.\nExperience with Git-based source control, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, release management, and production support.\nAbility to create clear technical designs, interface specifications, support documentation, operational runbooks, and architecture diagrams.\nHands-on experience using approved AI-assisted development tools while independently reviewing and validating generated code, tests, and documentation.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or comparable technologies.\nExperience with CDC and real-time data replication technologies such as AWS DMS, or comparable tools.\nFamiliarity with schema and contract-management practices for APIs, messages, and events.\nExperience with platform observability, operational dashboards, distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and alerting.\nExperience operating in SOX, PCI, or similarly regulated enterprise environments.\nExperience designing, developing, or supporting integrations with Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Oracle Integration Cloud, Quantum Treasury, Coupa, Concur, Workday, or comparable enterprise platforms.\nExperience supporting Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Treasury, Projects, Supply Chain, or related enterprise business processes.\nExperience mentoring developers and onboarding application teams to a shared enterprise platform.\nNice to Have: AI and Agentic Development\nExperience building or integrating AI agents involving task planning, tool calling, and multistep workflows.\nFamiliarity with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, or comparable technologies.\nFamiliarity with Model Context Protocol or similar governed tool-integration approaches.\nExperience using AI-assisted workflows for test generation, technical documentation, code analysis, or code reviews.\nThe base pay range for this role is $112,480.00 to $146,540.00.\nThe base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.\nYou may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.\nUnited Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. 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