Solution Architect – Hotel Technology, Enterprise Systems

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution architecture for hotel technology and enterprise system initiatives
• Develop current-state, target-state, and transitional architecture models
• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable cloud, application, data, API, integration, and enterprise platform solutions
• Assess architecture patterns, system constraints, technical debt, scalability risks, operational processes, and single points of failure
• Define architecture standards, reusable design assets, diagrams, system inventories, integration maps, dependency models, and data-flow documentation
• Provide architecture leadership across reservations, distribution, PMS, loyalty, contact center, and adjacent enterprise platforms
• Support modernization, platform migrations, vendor implementations, transformation initiatives, and digital capability expansion
• Design and govern REST APIs, event-driven architecture, microservices, middleware, batch processing, third-party connectivity, API gateways, service orchestration, and data exchange
• Provide architecture oversight for AWS, cloud-native, and hybrid solutions
• Provide technical oversight from discovery and design through implementation, testing, go-live, and handoff
• Facilitate architecture workshops, design reviews, technical assessments, and stakeholder discovery sessions
• Collaborate with project managers, product owners, developers, engineers, security, infrastructure, vendors, and business stakeholders
• Identify architecture risks, dependencies, design gaps, delivery constraints, and mitigation options
• Advise business and technology leadership on architecture direction, tradeoffs, risks, and future-state options
• Support vendor evaluations, RFPs, Statements of Work, technical due diligence, and build-versus-buy decisions
• Mentor engineers, technical leads, analysts, and team members
• Develop reusable architecture frameworks and templates and contribute to architecture governance

Work onsite Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with remote work Tuesdays and Thursdays

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of progressive technology experience
• 5+ years designing and delivering enterprise-scale solutions across software engineering, systems integration, cloud, enterprise architecture, or solution architecture
• Experience architecting solutions across applications, cloud platforms, APIs, integrations, data flows, identity, and security domains
• Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, service orchestration, and enterprise data exchange
• Experience with cloud architecture, preferably AWS
• Ability to create architecture diagrams, integration maps, dependency models, technical design documents, and executive-ready summaries
• Strong understanding of security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, disaster recovery, monitoring, logging, and operational support
• Ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership, product teams, engineering teams, vendors, and business stakeholders
• Experience working in Agile, hybrid, or enterprise project delivery environments
• This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship
• Preferred: hospitality, travel, distribution, reservation, PMS, loyalty, contact center, payment, identity, guest/member digital platforms, or CRS/GDS/OTA integrations
• Preferred: architecture certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, TOGAF, or equivalent
• Preferred:
  Okta, OAuth, API gateways, AWS Lambda, ECS, Event Bridge, SNS, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, WAF, PCI DSS, GDPR, PII handling, tokenization, encryption, RFPs/SOWs, modernization roadmaps, AI-assisted modernization, mentoring, or architecture governance practices

Demonstrates expertise in leading solution architecture for enterprise-scale technology initiatives, with a strong focus on cloud architecture, API design, and integration across various platforms. Proven ability to mentor teams, assess architecture risks, and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.

• Solution Architecture Leadership
• Cloud Architecture (AWS)
• API Design and Integration
• Enterprise Architecture Standards
• Agile Project Delivery

• Architecture Diagrams
• Microservices
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Service Orchestration
• Data Exchange
• Technical Design Documents
• Security Compliance
• Disaster Recovery
• Integration Maps
• Dependency…