Sr. Solutions Architect

The Senior Solutions Architect will deliver new technology capabilities to IHG's owners, customers, and partners within the organization. As the Senior Solution Architect you'll set the vision and parameters that Agile delivery teams operate within. Additionally, you'll assist in the develop and support governance processes that ensure that team deliverables meet the Company’s standards for performance, availability, quality, security, and maintainability.

You're Day to Day

• Develops a unified architecture that is scalable across the organization and ensures the use of industry and enterprise technology standards and develops roadmap incorporating industry best practices.

• Translates industry technology direction to business value and serves as a key advisor to stakeholders, providing new research and innovative approaches.

• Accountable for the development of high level business cases, with the ability to influence senior leadership, business partners, architects and key stakeholders within the architecture team and other functional areas on the adoption of technical solutions and drive the solution to completion.

• Research and evaluate, or provide direction to others researching and evaluating, new technologies coming to market and their potential application to IT strategies and business plans.

• Analyzes systems and processes from end to end, partnering with IT and business colleagues as appropriate.

• Provides guidance and enterprise‐wide influence leading to solutions that are well engineered, operable, maintainable, scalable, and delivered on schedule.

• Advices in decisions regarding strategic partnerships, vendor selection and acquisitions.

What We Need from You

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work related experience. Typically a minimum of 10-15+ years of progressive work related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines, technologies, or processes related to the position.

• Technical mastery and competency in all architecture, with vast knowledge of the capabilities and constraints of technologies supported.

• Expert understanding of the designs and technology footprints of multiple products within a product family.

• Champion engineering process disciplines (e.g., Scrum, Agile, Kanban, ITIL).

• Champion industry process improvement programs (e.g., CMMI, IOS‐9000, FDA, Six Sigma).

• Required Technical Proficiencies:

• Middleware Focused: 

• Java

• ESB e.g. Fuse

• REST

• Enterprise Caching Architectures e.g. Gemfire

• Service Oriented Architectures

• Messaging Based Architecture e.g. Kafka and MQ

• Micro Service Architecture

• Public Facing APIs and API Gateways

• Enterprise Integration Patterns

• Data Transformation and ETL

• Data Focused:

• Big Data

• Data Design Principles and Best Practices

• Reporting and Analytics Design Platforms

• Data Platforms knowledge for Data Residency decisions (Teradata, Oracle, no-SQL databases)

• BI tools (OBI, Business Objects, Tableau, Essbase, Alteryx)

• Analytic Tools (SAS, R)

• Decision Science Experience, Including Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence

• Forecast and Demand Planning Applications

• Master Data Management Applications

• Preferred Skills:

• Middleware Focused:

• Web Application

• Native Application

• Property Management System

• Mainframe

• Big Data

• Relational Data

• Reporting and Analytics

• Data Focused:

• Hospitality Data

Location – Atlanta, GA. Our hybrid work structure is an expectation of three (3) days a week in office. This expectation may be adjusted to evolve with the changing needs of the business.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we work together to deliver True Hospitality for Good on a global scale. With corporate offices and over 6,000 hotel destinations worldwide, a career at IHG is the perfect way to broaden your horizons. You’ll experience our unique culture and brilliant colleagues who will support and inspire you. With a host of corporate opportunities to choose from, wherever you are on your career journey, and whatever you want to achieve there’s Room for You at IHG.

Over recent years, we’ve transformed our company. We have bold ambitions to drive performance and maintain our relentless focus on growth in order to be the hotel company of choice that guests & owners love.

We are a hospitality business at our core and value connections and being together helps us foster a unique sense of belonging that also supports productivity. That’s why here at IHG, we give our colleagues flexibility and balance – working in a hybrid way, blending office and remote working collectively. We recognise that every role is different, that’s why leaders work with teams to determine how and when they collaborate.

We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life. These include impressive room discounts across our many properties, recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year. Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace. We offer a unique and inclusive culture, where there is always Room for You to belong, grow and make a difference.

Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable laws. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance. Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

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Important information :

• The salary range listed is the lowest to highest pay scale we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.

• No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until it is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or other form of compensation allocable to a particular employee remain in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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