Technology Architect – Stängd (Stängd)

For our customers behalf we are searching for a Technology Architect

We are a multi-disciplinary team of experts across Architecture, Engineering, DevOps and Agile Delivery providing global services.

We’re ambitious to become the leader in technology within the travel industry and to achieve this we are looking to build a capable, creative team who want to be a part of accomplishing that goal.

We never stop looking ahead, seeking new ways to delight our customers and grow our business. We recognize the power of digital and the massive contribution this brings to creating a truly unique and differentiated customer experience.

We are looking for a talented and dedicated leader to join the newly formed team which main focus is building and running the central inventory and reservation services.

 The Technology Architect collaborates closely with Product Owners, Solution Architects and the development team and acts as a spokesperson on behalf of the Reservation Service in technical engagements.

You are an advocate for state-of-the-art domain and event driven architecture and are well-connected within the global community of architects within the group.

 WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

As a Technology Architect, you will be working with colleagues in delivery teams within an agile environment. As an enthusiast in domain driven design you will use your excellent facilitation and solicitation skills and strong DevSecOps mindset to effectively engage with teams, developing a strong understanding of their context and the challenges they are dealing with.

You’ll enhance the capability of the wider team through continuously exploring new ways to improve the quality of solutions, ensuring that project/ product technical options are considered, and recommended approaches are clearly designed with valuable solutions.

You have ownership of the Reservation Service architecture roadmap and will drive maturity improvements in this space by adopting suitable latest industry trends.

You identify and implement improvement architectural practices in an agile environment and map the discrepancy between the current processes and the desired state to continuously innovate the IT processes, adapting them to market trends. You ensure that technical implementation is in accordance with the enterprise and solution architecture and the objectives of the organization. In addition to maintaining a helicopter view of your technology landscape, you also ensure correct implementation of the correct components, standards, design principles and patterns for software development including code standards and quality.

You maintain a strong understanding of the bigger picture, keeping yourself continuously informed of the latest innovations, technologies, patterns and practices in the area of delivering cloud native scalable solutions. You think ahead and understand the overall business context and strategy, and you will use these insights to shape emergent architecture of the Reservation Service.

You use your deep skills to help teams improve their expertise in implementing technical capabilities fulfilling the ever changing business needs. You never come across as preachy or dogmatic, but you are always clear and vocal about what you believe in. You always drive for technical excellence, ownership and self-organization at team level. You help the team to find a balance between tactical solutions and long-term platform sustainability and maintainability.

You will, together with your colleagues, research, evaluate and test new processes and tools and help teams to use them effectively. You collaborate closely with Technology Leads to increase our overall technical capabilities and the DevSecOps maturity in all teams to help achieve the agreed OKRs/goals at team and domain level. You help define the domain’s technology strategy, objectives and develop new tools and techniques to improve the necessary capabilities across the domain.

You are an active member of the global architecture community. You love to learn and acquire new skills and you enjoy teaching others. You are not afraid to get stuck in and work directly with teams – you hate being in an ivory tower.

Security is part of everyone’s job. We practice secure behaviors first in everything we do.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: 

  • Thought leader in domain driven design, active member of global architecture communities
  • An experienced architect and authentic servant leader with passion for technology and solution architecture and design.
  • Proven track record in designing architecture blueprints and the optimisation of them to drive development and innovation
  • Proficiency in translating business vision into viable technical strategies and in conveying such strategies back to business stakeholders.
  • Experience in working in an agile environment and able to integrate architecture practises in an agile way of working
  • Great communicator and facilitator comfortable working across organisational and market boundaries and managing senior stakeholders. Able to disagree yet align
  • Good grasp of experience with cloud technology, design patterns, micro-services, CI/CD and DevSecOps.
  • Open minded, inquisitive, life-long learner
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, highly autonomous.
  • Enjoys and gets energized by complex technical problem solving with an ability to push innovation through technical solutions
  • Customer centric, passionate about delivering great digital products and services

Experience from:

  • designing and developing Python applications
  • building native AWS applications
  • working with document databases
  • Location:Stockholm/remote
  • Business Sector/Domain:Product/Customer & Product
  • Function: Technology
  • Reports to:Head of Technology Reservation & Inventory