Solution Architect – Workforce Platforms
Hotel Brand:
Location: India, Gurgaon
Hotel: 1 - Corp India GSC Delivery Centre, 11th Floor, Building No. 10, Tower C, DLF Cyber City, DLF Phase II, 122002
Job number: 161448
Role Purpose
The IT Architect is a member of a team delivering new technology capabilities to the Company’s owners, customers, and partners within the organization. The IT Architect helps set the vision and parameters that Agile delivery teams operation within. In addition, the IT Architect helps build and support governance processes that ensure that team deliverables meet the Company’s standards for performance, availability, quality, security, and maintainability.
Key Accountabilities
- Leads the architectural efforts of large, complex projects (e.g., a family of products or IT services) involving multiple vendors, multiple technologies, leading‐edge technologies, and broad implications for architecture and develops roadmap incorporating industry best practices.
- Leads the development of complex proposals related to integrating multiple architecture domains (i.e., process, application, data, infrastructure).
- Manages the architectural lifecycle, ensuring that engineering and maintenance phases conform to the architecture.
- Makes strategic decisions about system design, implementation, and maintenance.
- Analyzes systems and processes from end to end.
- Analyzes quality attributes of solutions and evaluates the technical and economic feasibility of proposed solutions.
- Interacts with clients or senior management in geographically and/or socially diverse teams on strategic operations, serving as an expert in several specialties or components.
- Participates as a member of a team to assess and recommend a migration strategy to new technologies.
- Stays current on latest technologies and trends.
Key Skills & Experiences
Education –
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work related experience.
Experience –
- Typically a minimum of 10+ years of progressive work related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines, technologies, or processes related to the position.
Technical skills and Knowledge –
- Technical mastery and competency in all architecture, with vast knowledge of the capabilities and constraints of technologies supported.
- 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 Skills:
- 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
- Middleware Focused:
- Hot Skills –
- Middleware Focused:
- Web Application
- Native Application
- Property Management System
- Mainframe
- Big Data
- Relational Data
- Reporting and Analytics
- Data Focused:
- Hospitality Data
- Middleware Focused:
Who we are
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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