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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 Our Values: At United Airlines, we believe that inclusion propels innovation and is the foundation of all that we do.
Our Shared Purpose: "Connecting people. Uniting the world." drives us to be the best airline for our employees, customers, and everyone we serve, and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. Our team spans the globe and is made up of diverse individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. With multiple employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities and world-class benefits like health insurance, parental leave, and space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work that will make you feel welcome and accepted.
Come join our team and help us make a positive impact on the world. United’s Digital Technology team is responsible for designing, developing, and operating highly scalable technology solutions powered by modern architecture, advanced data analytics, and digital innovation. Within this ecosystem, the NCUS (NOC, CSR, UAX and SOC) team leads the development and maintenance of the airline’s Network Operations Center (NOC); the operational nerve centre that powers mission-critical capabilities.
These include irregular operations (IRROPS) management, flight delay and passenger misconnection predictions, managing aircraft routing, and cancellation recommendations. Leveraging cutting-edge digital technologies and infrastructure, the team continuously enhances recommendation, prediction, and forecasting platforms to deliver intuitive, data-driven tools that enable real-time situational awareness and informed decision-making.
Job Overview and Responsibilities Our United team in India is on an exciting growth trajectory, and to fuel this momentum, we are seeking a highly experienced Principal Developer who will provide deep technical leadership, hands-on architecture guidance, and engineering excellence for enterprise applications that are essential to driving our business success. We are looking for a technical leader who combines strong software engineering expertise with the ability to influence architecture, guide complex design decisions, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate closely with product, business, and technology stakeholders.
Deep experience in modern application development, cloud-native architecture, Agile delivery, DevOps practices, coding and testing with AI-enabled tools, and solution architecture will be key to success in this role. Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence: Provide principal-level technical leadership across application design, development, modernization, and delivery. Lead architectural discussions, define engineering standards, review complex designs, mentor developers and tech leads, and promote high-quality, secure, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner closely with US technology leadership, product teams, business stakeholders, and local/global engineering teams to align technical solutions with business priorities and technology roadmaps. Communicate architecture decisions, delivery risks, technical trade-offs, and opportunities for innovation in a clear and effective manner. Application Architecture & Delivery: Drive the design and delivery of mission-critical applications using modern engineering practices, cloud-native patterns, microservices, APIs, containers, CI/CD, and DevOps automation.
Ensure applications are resilient, observable, performant, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture, compliance, and operational standards. Identify and resolve technical risks that may affect quality, s