Senior Principal Application Solutions Architect

Company

Alaska Airlines The Team

Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you.

Role Summary

The Senior Principal Solutions Architect is the sole subject matter expert and thought leader in governance for software engineering for Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines. As an individual contributor, this role designs and implements innovative enterprise software engineering best practices, standards, and technology roadmaps and identifies governance for software engineering efforts, while solving technical, process, and governance issues.

Key Duties

• 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.

Additional Details

This Senior Principal Application Solutions Architect role is a unique opportunity to define the future of Alaska’s digital ecosystem across web, mobile, content, and backend services. You’ll lead the vision and modernization of a complex, cross-domain application landscape spanning multiple business portfolios, technologies, and guest touchpoints—driving consistency across platforms, enabling personalization, and improving speed to market. Partnering closely with senior leaders across engineering, product, marketing, design, and data, you’ll shape the roadmap, introduce AI-driven and API-first approaches, and help unify teams around a simpler, more scalable architecture that elevates the end-to-end guest experience.

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills

Required

• 10 years of software engineering and/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.

Preferred

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office platform (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Outlook).

• Established skills in leading and/or mentoring other technology professionals.

• Working knowledge of one or more IT architecture standards such as COBIT, TOGAF, IT4IT, etc.

• Familiarity with data privacy, compliance, and security principles/standards.

• Demonstrated business acumen including RFP participation and product delivery.

• Broad background in product delivery, technical architectures, application development, middleware, and database management.

Job-Specific Leadership Expectations

Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be caring and kind, and deliver performance.

Starting Rate

Salary Range

$178,300-$276,350 / year Bonus

Salary Details

The pay range and total target compensation package listed above is the expected pay offered for this position at the start of employment. Your pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, your relevant experience/level, experience level, and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon employees. Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.

Note: We don't typically hire at the top of the range.

Total Rewards

Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.

• Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air with high priority status

• Select number of confirmed travel credits provided annually

• Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits

• Generous 401k match program

• Annual bonus plans

• Generous holiday and paid time off

For more information about Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits.

Regulatory Information

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement

It is the policy of Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and to ensure equal opportunity in all terms, conditions, and benefits of employment or potential employment.

We also prohibit discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.

We have established an EEO Compliance Program under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (“Section 503”) and the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (“VEVRAA”). All applicants and employees are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. In addition, we have established an audit and reporting system to allow for effective measurement of its equal employment opportunity activities.

To implement this policy, we will:

(1) Recruit, hire, train and promote qualified persons in all job titles, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and any other legally protected categories; (2) Ensure that employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements; and (3) Ensure that all personnel actions and employment activities such as compensation, benefits, promotions, layoffs, return from layoff, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air sponsored programs, and tuition assistance will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.

Employees and applicants for employment will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination because they have engaged or may engage in (1) filing a complaint, (2) opposing any act or practice made unlawful by, or exercising any other right protected by, any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA, or (3) assisting or participating in any investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA.

Government Contractor & Department of Transportation (DOT) Regulations Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air are regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT – regulations, 49 CFR part 40) and all applicants are advised that post-offer and/or pre-employment drug testing will be conducted to determine the presence of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine (PCP) and amphetamines or a metabolite of these drugs prior to any offer or employment or transfer into a safety-sensitive position. Failure to submit to testing or positive indications of drug use will render the applicant ineligible for employment with Alaska Airlines/Hawaiian Airlines/Horizon Air and any employment offer will be withdrawn.

Apply by 7:00 PM Pacific Time on

7/21/2026 FLSA Status

Exempt Employment Type

Full-Time Regular/Temporary

Regular Requisition Type

Management Location

Seattle - Hub L:

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