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Chicago, ILJob$94–123K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
United Airlines’ Digital Technology team builds and maintains technology solutions for the airline. The Data Engineer architects, implements, and maintains data infrastructure and end-to-end pipelines, including ingestion, storage, and data quality. The role develops scalable cloud-native platforms and batch and real-time pipelines, supports data analysis and model deployment, and collaborates across teams to translate business and technical requirements into practical solutions.
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Full job description
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
The objective of Data Engineer is to architect, implement and maintain robust data infrastructure that supports the end-to-end pipelines. This includes designing data ingestion processes, optimizing data storage solutions, and ensuring data quality and integrity. By building scalable and efficient systems, the Data Engineer empowers the team to access, preprocess, and analyze data effectively, ultimately facilitating the development and deployment of accurate and impactful data models.
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Design, build, and operate high-performance, cloud-native infrastructure and services that accelerate innovation across United
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Establish and maintain scalable containerized and serverless platforms, develop automation tools and applications using the AWS ecosystem, and proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize critical data infrastructure
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Design and develop resilient batch and real-time data pipelines using Spark, Python, Databricks, and Flink
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Apply hands-on engineering expertise to deliver scalable, maintainable, and high-performing data solutions
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Support and optimize large-scale data pipelines within distributed, highly available, and horizontally scalable environments
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Remain current with advancements in cloud-native engineering and microservices architecture
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Evaluate, experiment with, and adopt emerging technologies that improve platform scalability, resilience, developer productivity
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Advance intelligent automation through modern AI technologies
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Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to translate business and technical requirements into practical solutions
Qualifications
What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field
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2+ years experience in data engineering or related roles
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Proficiency in Python, SQL, data processing frameworks (Spark, pyspark)
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Familiar with AWS services such as Kinesis, Redshift, Glue, Athena, S3 etc.
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Ability to effectively collaborate with business users and product owners to design optimized data pipelines
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Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
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Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
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Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position
What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):
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Bachelor’s degree in a field relevant to Machine Learning
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3+ years experience in data engineering or related roles
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Advanced knowledge of ML algorithms and techniques
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Experience deploying machine learning pipelines into production
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Strong understanding of machine learning workflows, along with MLOPs tools and practices for managing ML workflows at scale
The base pay range for this role is $94,145.00 to $122,550.00.
The 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.
You 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.
United 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. To request an accommodation, contact [email protected]
How this job compares
Set against the 6,048 open Data Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$94–123K/yr
- Illinois median$126–200K/yr163 salary ranges
- US median$125–208K/yr4,718 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $108K, is 31% below the Illinois median midpoint ($157K) — in the lowest quarter of Data Engineer salary ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 185 open Data Engineer jobs in Illinois and 6,048 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Data Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 5,284 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 2,353 of the 6,048 open Data Engineer jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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