Enterprise Architect – Digital

Overview

We’re an ambitious bunch and we don’t intend on stopping here. We want to lead the industry, become the holiday provider of choice and to do this we’re building remarkable teams with modern ways of working. That’s where you come in!

What you'll bring to the team:

Reporting to the Head of Architecture, we are looking for an Architect to join our growing Technology Team at easy

Jet Holidays. The team is a dynamic group of practical and pragmatic architects responsible for providing strategic technology decisions, providing solution design and being the custodians of architecture information across the organisation.

As the Enterprise Architect for the Digital Domain, you will be responsible for the Digital technology architecture strategy for easy

Jet Holidays, ensuring it’s alignment with both wider technology and business strategy. You will be responsible for working with our business on aiding ideation and discovery for key strategic Commercial initiatives. You will also be responsible for high level solution design for those key initiatives. The role will involve working with domain solution architects who are dedicated to solution design and the wider team comprising of Enterprise and Solution architects all reporting to the Head of Architecture.

The Digital domain at easy

Jet Holidays covers digital channels to merchandise and service our holiday products and include our Website and Mobile app architecture, partner APIs (all built in AWS), Digital Personalisation Platforms, Digital Asset Management, Product Inventory Platforms, Content Management Systems and integrations with core reservations platforms.

You will be responsible for all digital architecture design artefacts and ensuring all designs and design decisions are governed according to the practice. You will also be responsible for guiding solution architects in iterative product solution design.

To lead the technology strategy for end to end solutions in the Digital domain, working with technical leads covering each product under development, and the Head of Architecture driving the long-term architectural direction.

Work with the Commercial and Digital teams in discovery for new business ideas and major Holidays initiatives, providing conceptual solutions, options analysis, estimation and guiding the business in realising the initiative vision.

Produce high quality, comprehensive Solution designs artefacts demonstrating a balance of different functional & non-functional drivers and requirements, effective understanding of solution risk, and alignment to broader IT strategy and standards, delivered in an agile, Product-based framework.

Contribute to the continuous improvement of the architecture wider architecture practice maintaining views of evolving Digital technology landscape, identifying patterns and standards and assuring digital design artefacts and design decisions are well documented and well governed.

• Experience of pragmatic architecture governance process in design governance, production of enterprise artefacts and maintenance of relevant architecture viewpoints.
• Demonstrable experience of leading major initiative discovery and experimentation.
• Demonstrable experience of designing high quality software solutions in-line with business needs and timescales
• Ability to confidently present architecture and technology strategy to both IT and business audiences
• The ability to understand complex concepts and communicate them in a simple manner to business and technology stakeholders
• Experience of designing/implementing solutions, including:
  • Large, multi-technology, multi-vendor solutions
  • Restful APIs and Microservices
  • Content Delivery Networks
  • Content Management Systems (e.g. Sitecore)
  • Front End Frameworks (e.g. React)
  • Caching & Search Solutions
  • Integration Service architectures and patterns
  • Experience of design using AWS solution architecture services e.g. Event Bridge, Lambda, Step Functions, S3, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, DynamoDB
• Experience of building internal and external 3rd party integration architectures
• Experience of Event Driven Architecture & API Design
• Practical experience of…