API Architect

API Architect With Travel Domain

Job Location:-Phoenix AZ

Job Type:- Contract

As a Solution / Application Architect, you will lead the design of end-to-end solutions that integrate travel aggregators and partner APIs with client channels, ensuring seamless, secure, and high-performing delivery of mission-critical data. While your primary focus is on solution architecture—aligning applications with business needs, partner requirements, and compliance—you will also bring a strong grounding in system architecture principles such as scalability, resilience, and fault tolerance, which are considered baseline capabilities for this role.

Your Primary Responsibilities may include:

• Design application and integration architectures that connect external travel partners with client’s platforms, using secure and performant APIs.
• Define solution patterns for partner onboarding, API lifecycle management, data transformation, error handling, and monitoring.
• Ensure solutions are built on strong system-level foundations (scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, performant).
• Provide technical leadership on middleware adoption (queues, caching, event streaming, API gateways) to support partner integrations.
• Collaborate with product, compliance, and engineering teams to ensure solutions meet business needs, regulatory standards, and SLA commitments.
• Continuously evaluate and re-architect solutions as partner demands, transaction volumes, and business priorities evolve.
• Remain technology-agnostic, capable of designing solutions across Java/Open systems or Microsoft platforms.

Qualifications include:

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect, with strong grounding in system architecture principles (distributed design, scalability, reliability).
• Hands-on expertise in API management, integration frameworks, and middleware technologies.
• Experience with external B2B integrations, ideally in travel, financial services, or other high-volume transaction ecosystems.
• Familiarity with industry standards (e.g., OTA, GDS, NDC) and compliance frameworks (e.g., PCI DSS) preferred.
• Ability to bridge business needs and technical design, ensuring architectures deliver measurable value.
• Technology flexibility: Java/Open systems preferred, Microsoft stack acceptable.
• Track record of modernizing application landscapes and enabling partner-driven ecosystems.

Leadership Skills may include:

• Business-Technology Alignment: Ensures solution designs address business goals and partner requirements while resting on robust system foundations.
• Drives Innovation & Change: Champions API-first architectures, scalable patterns, and modernization initiatives.
• Collaborative Leadership: Engages across business, compliance, and engineering functions to deliver unified solutions.
• Communication: Simplifies complex system and solution concepts for business leaders, while providing depth for technical teams.