Principal Solutions Architect - Dnata

Role overview

Architecture and technology leadership

• Define and govern corporate and portfolio IT standards, guidelines, and practices; assess competing technologies and their strategic significance.
• Set standards' roles, scope, roadmaps, and relationship to existing standards, and review the IT estate against them.
• Track technology advances and business innovations; lead changes to architecture assets and demonstrate business value through proofs of concept.
• Lead solution architecture for new initiatives, vendor acquisitions, and system enhancements, including integration architecture.
• Own architecture quality and decisions, including implications for cost, schedule, complexity, technical debt, and solution performance.
• Advise projects and lead design reviews on standards, exception requests, and appropriate use of architecture patterns.
• Lead architecture and technology direction for development teams; coordinate with peer architects and engineering teams.
• Coach architect and senior engineering resources and lead wider virtual teams of technical and business stakeholders.
• Own roadmaps and runways for complex projects, products, environments, and platforms; oversee technical enablers, debt, quality improvements, and modernization.

Technology context

• The description references ReactJS, NodeJS, Java microservices, self-service integrations, Open APIs, DevSecOps, and Cloud.
• Experience or knowledge of common airline systems is advantageous, preferably in a large international airline or an aviation service provider.

Qualifications

• Degree (12+3 or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent IT-related discipline.
• Technical leadership leading technical architects and senior developers, and ability to influence delivery plans based on architecture and skills constraints.
• Comprehensive understanding of one or more technologies; the visible description names Java and Cloud as examples.