# Lead Engineer – Automation Modernization

Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. 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. Description United's Digital Technology team is comprised of many talented individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. Our team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions. Job Overview and Responsibilities This role leads the design and development of RESTful APIs and reusable automation services that modernize enterprise services, including device lifecycle, incident management, secure file transfer and job scheduling solutions. The position applies strong software engineering practices to create scalable, secure, and supportable self-service capabilities while improving the developer and user experience through clear documentation, observability, and reliable integrations. The Lead Engineer also provides t

- **Id**: 3665519
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/united-airlines-lead-engineer-automation-modernization>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Houston, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T08:38:09Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4929
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Air Transport, Commercial Aviation

## Company

- **Id**: 18409
- **Name**: United Airlines
- **Domain**: united.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/united>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 99
- **Open postings**: 19
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.158
- **Repost share**: 0.105
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 9
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 112480
- **Max**: 146540
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 146540

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **AIOps** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: yes
- **Dynatrace** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T06:04:25Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 18 · green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 18; Filings prev 12m: 8; Green card filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 84
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.889
- **P room**: 0.945
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 9
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 146540
- **Is top pay**: no

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