Solutions Architect

Sky Team delivers digital capabilities that enable a seamless travel experience across its member airlines and partners. The Solution Architect is responsible for designing and governing technology solutions that support Sky Team products, platforms, and member-facing initiatives. Working within Sky Team's architecture standards, governance principles, and reference architectures, the role delivers scalable, secure, and maintainable solution designs that enable seamless experiences across airlines, partners, and technology providers.
The Solution Architect collaborates with business stakeholders, development teams, member airlines, and technology partners to translate business requirements into solution designs that support successful delivery and long-term maintainability.
KEY RESULT AREAS / KEY RESPONSIBILITES

Solution Design & Architecture

• Create and maintain architecture and solution designs for complex internal and external connections between Sky Team, member airlines, system providers, and related partners.
• Ensure solutions and products are aligned with Sky Team’s architecture standards, governance principles, and reference architectures.
• Analyze complex business problems and translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable solution designs.
• Design cloud-based services, applications, integrations, and data-driven capabilities to support business objectives.
• Develop and manage domain-level architecture designs, specifications, and supporting documentation.
• Define or contribute to Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), solution architecture, and vendor design requirements.

• Produce end-to-end solution designs that enable development teams and infrastructure specialists to successfully implement and operate solutions.
• Ensure detailed designs and implementations remain aligned with approved solution architecture throughout delivery.
• Review specifications, technical designs, and vendor deliverables to validate compliance with architectural standards.
• Provide input into test strategies, test plans, and service design considerations.
• Review test outcomes and support resolution of architecture-related issues throughout delivery.

• Drive technical feasibility assessments and support informed technology decision making.
• Contribute to the development of Sky Team architecture standards, security principles, and future architectural direction.
• Participate in architecture discussions and support the evolution of architecture practices, methods, and design approaches.
• Create and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical architecture models supporting future-fit and cross-member initiatives.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, member airlines, technology providers, and delivery teams to ensure solutions meet business and operational requirements.
• Act as a trusted advisor to development teams throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Support adoption of Sky Team-developed solutions by member airlines and partner organizations.
• Communicate architecture decisions, design considerations, and implementation guidance to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Full-time position based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Hybrid working model requiring a minimum of three days per week in the Sky Team office
• Occasional travel to member airlines, partners, and industry events may be required.
• Sky Team project teams:
  Lead Solution Architect, Director Product Design & Development, Director Technology Strategy and IT Operations, CISO, Business Representatives, Sky Team contractors and consultants.
• Sky Team airline members:
  Business representatives and architects.
• External stakeholders:
  Vendors (for Sky Team-enabled products), Cloud Provider representatives, and partners of member airlines.

Responsibilities and tasks of the position are not limited to the above mentioned, and deviations can occur at any point in time as the position evolves.

REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in solution architecture, domain architecture, software engineering, or related technology roles.
• Experience designing and documenting solution architectures for cloud-based, API-driven, and integration-heavy technology solutions.
• Experience working with business and technology…