Java Team Lead (Integration Developer) at United Airlines in Chicago, IL

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Position Summary We 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. This 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. The 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. The 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. Key Responsibilities Design, 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. Lead 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. Develop reusable integration components, services, templates, frameworks, and implementation patterns that reduce point-to-point interfaces and improve delivery consistency across application teams. Lead 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. Contribute to platform architecture, API lifecycle management, system design, capacity planning, scalability, resiliency, observability, and long-term technology roadmaps. Establish and promote engineering standards for API design, messaging, data transformation, exception handling, retries, idempotency, reconciliation, logging, monitoring, and operational support. Develop 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. Collaborate with product, architecture, security, infrastructure, QA, DevOps, business application, and vendor teams to translate functional and nonfunctional requirements into scalable integration solutions. Troubleshoot complex production issues across APIs, integrations, messaging platforms, databases, cloud services, and dependent applications; perform root-cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions. Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment automation, monitoring, and platform engineering improvements that increase delivery efficiency and operational reliability. Serve as a technical leader and subject matter expert by mentoring developers, communicating design decisions and tradeoffs, coordinating delivery across teams, and influencing technical direction. Use approved AI-assisted development tools to improve development, testing, documentation, and code-review efficiency while maintaining engineering, security, privacy, and quality standards. Required Experience Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 3+ years of hands-on experienc