Solutions Architect

Job description:

Application and integration-focused Senior Solution Architect who can own the complete customer transaction from the digital channel through APIs and CDS business services into Emirates enterprise systems and external chauffeur/service-provider platforms.

• Strong hands-on experience (8+ years) in enterprise application and solution architecture, with significant experience architecting complex, customer-facing digital platforms.
• Proven experience defining end-to-end solution architecture across web/mobile channels, backend services, integration platforms, enterprise systems and external service providers.
• Ability to translate business capabilities, functional requirements and customer journeys into scalable, secure and resilient technical solutions.
• Strong experience defining:
• Solution Architecture
• Application Architecture
• Integration Architecture
• Data flows and system interactions
• Deployment Architecture
• Security Architecture
• Strong understanding of microservices and domain-driven architecture, including service decomposition, bounded contexts, service communication and API contracts.
• Strong experience with API-first architecture, including:
• RESTful APIs
• OpenAPI / Swagger
• API gateways
• API versioning
• Authentication and authorisation
• API lifecycle management
• Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, including synchronous, asynchronous and event-driven integration.
• Experience architecting solutions using messaging and event technologies such as:
• Kafka
• Solace
• JMS
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration platforms such as SnapLogic or equivalent iPaaS technologies.
• Experience defining architectures for applications built using modern technology stacks such as Java / Spring Boot and React / TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, including:
• Containers and Docker
• Kubernetes / OpenShift
• Infrastructure scalability
• Configuration and secrets management
• High availability and resiliency
• Experience defining solutions leveraging relational and NoSQL databases, caching and appropriate data storage patterns.
• Strong understanding of security architecture and secure-by-design principles, including:
• OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect
• JWT
• Role-Based Access Control
• Certificates and encryption
• Secrets management
• Data protection

Preferable:

• Experience architecting airline, travel, transportation, mobility, logistics or complex booking platforms would be highly desirable.
• Ability to define the end-to-end architecture supporting Chauffeur Drive booking, modification, cancellation and fulfilment journeys.
• Experience architecting real-time transactional platforms handling availability, eligibility, capacity and service confirmation.
• Ability to architect solutions supporting complex customer eligibility and business-rule evaluation.
• Experience designing solutions involving address capture/validation, geolocation, service-area determination, vehicle selection and routing-related services.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns required across customer-facing channels, reservation systems, loyalty platforms, CRM, payment services and operational fulfilment systems.
• Experience integrating with external suppliers /service providers, including patterns for handling availability, booking confirmation, failures, retries and reconciliation.