Director Solution Architect Revenue Management

Project Overview

The client is seeking an experienced Director, Solution Architect – Revenue Management to join its Domain Enterprise Architecture team. This role is responsible for designing scalable, resilient, and high-performing technology solutions that support the modernization of enterprise product platforms.

The Solution Architect will partner with Business, Product, Engineering, and IT teams to translate business objectives into enterprise architecture solutions while ensuring alignment with architectural standards, cloud-native best practices, and long-term technology strategy. The position will play a key role in the transformation of Enterprise Applications, with a primary focus on Revenue Management Systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design scalable, resilient, and high-performance enterprise technology solutions.
• Define future-state architecture for enterprise modernization initiatives.
• Translate business requirements into technical architecture aligned with enterprise standards.
• Lead architecture initiatives across Enterprise Applications, including Revenue Management Systems.
• Develop solution, integration, deployment, and data architectures for large-scale digital transformation projects.
• Create architectural documentation including conceptual and logical diagrams, domain models, data models, technology roadmaps, and use-case flows.
• Design cloud-native architectures with a focus on scalability, high availability, performance, and data integrity.
• Define enterprise APIs, microservices, and integration patterns.
• Architect event-driven systems using streaming and messaging technologies.
• Establish enterprise architecture standards, governance, and best practices.
• Define technology roadmaps and evaluate modernization, migration, reuse, and retirement opportunities.
• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and enterprise architecture requirements.
• Partner with Product Owners, Engineering teams, Project Managers, vendors, and business stakeholders to deliver enterprise technology solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance to engineering teams.
• Evaluate platform health, capacity planning, and long-term architectural strategy.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience

• 10 years of progressive experience in software development and solution architecture.
• 3 years designing transition and target-state architectures for large-scale digital transformation initiatives.
• 3 years of hands-on experience architecting, implementing, or operating applications that process high-volume data.
• Experience creating architecture artifacts, including conceptual diagrams, logical diagrams, domain models, data models, roadmaps, and use-case journeys.
• Experience designing cloud deployment architectures focused on scalability, reliability, performance, and availability.
• Experience defining and implementing non-functional requirements (NFRs).

Preferred Qualifications

• Hospitality or Travel industry experience.
• Experience with Pricing and Revenue Management systems.
• Knowledge of:
  • Revenue forecasting and optimization models
  • Pricing and inventory optimization
  • Room allocation strategies
  • Dynamic pricing
  • Loyalty and rewards pricing models
• Experience processing enterprise data sources including bookings, competitor pricing, inventory, and room data.
• Understanding of global data privacy and protection regulations.
• Experience with platform health monitoring, infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, and architecture roadmap development.
• Familiarity with enterprise API gateways, preferably Akana.
• Experience managing technical debt and balancing architecture with business priorities.
• Hands-on programming experience with asynchronous and functional programming concepts.

Technical & Soft Skills

Technical Skills

• Enterprise Solution Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
• Cloud-Native Architecture
• AWS Cloud Services
• Amazon EKS
• AWS Lambda
• Amazon S3
• Amazon EMR
• Amazon Aurora
• Amazon DocumentDB
• Couchbase Capella
• Snowflake
• PostgreSQL
• Relational Databases
• NoSQL Databases
• Microservices Architecture
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Kafka
• Spark
• REST APIs
• GraphQL
• XML
• Asynchronous APIs
• API Design
• Integration Architecture
• High-Volume Data Processing
• Non-Functional Requirements (Security, Scalability, Reliability, Performance, Observability)
• Dynatrace
• Splunk
• AppDynamics
• Capacity Planning
• Technology Roadmapping
• Architecture Governance

Soft Skills

• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Executive stakeholder management
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Technical leadership
• Mentoring and coaching
• Strategic thinking
• Problem-solving
• Decision-making
• Negotiation skills