Solutions Architect - CH- Genève, Schweiz - International Air Transport Association (IATA)

Beschreibung

Employment Type: Permanent
Contract Duration:

At IATA, we speak for the airlines of the world, serving and supporting over 300 of them across all continents. We are passionate and knowledgeable about the aviation industry, and we strive to make it safer, smarter, more sustainable and more inclusive. We celebrate diversity and inclusion in our workforce, and we respect and value the different backgrounds, perspectives and skills of our employees. We also care about our employees' wellbeing, and we provide flexible work arrangements, travel benefits, family-friendly policies, equal pay and a day off on your birthday. We believe in giving back to the community and encourage our staff to participate in volunteering activities that support causes they care about. We encourage you to join our global community of aviation enthusiasts, and we will do our best to make you feel comfortable during the interview process. IATA is more than a trade association; it is a vision of a better future for air travel.

About the team you are joining

As a member of I&D Architecture, Salesforce and Solution Design team, you will be primarily responsible for the Solution Architecture for both IATA's custom built and commercial off the shelf IT solutions. This will include the architecture for a varied number of technologies, such as Java/JEE, .net and including cloud-based technologies and integration tools, such as AWS and Mulesoft as required. You will act as the expert for the I&D design of IATA's solutions and products, and for the projects/enhancements that you would be assigned, you will follow up and ensure the quality of implementation. You will be creating high level designs documents and will be an overall subject matter expert of all aspects of Solution Architecture. You need to understand, define and recommend coding best practices and integration options, including middleware products such as Biztalk, Mulesoft and AWS amongst others.

What your day would be like

Solution Architecture:
Design key technical components of IATA's IT solutions and own the end to end technical implementation.
Participate in design sessions with the business and IT teams to provide various design alternatives.
Ensure the technical design aligns to overall enterprise architecture and scales with it accordingly.
Define technical best practices for the implementation; Provide the Architecture/ high level design documents.
Perform code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices.
Evaluate possible application performance bottle necks at early stages of the implementation and recommend remedial measures.
Identify any application/code security issues and recommend remedial measures.
General Architecture:
Strong expertise in various integration options such as Mulesoft.
Develop, communicate, maintain and enforce the overall architecture (applications, data, integration, etc) of the systems with each project.
Contribute to the enterprise architecture group with accountability for system architecture and governance across the business and its IT suppliers ensuring the end to end integrity of the solution.
Promote co-operation and facilitate coordination of all technical streams within projects/programmers to achieve the successful delivery of an integrated solution.
Provide overall design principles for software and hardware integration, performance design, reliability design, manageability design and security design.
Produce the appropriate level of formal architecture and design documentation.
Work closely with project management and development teams to assist the planning and review of project schedules, project reviews, project sizing and gap analysis.
Define subsystems and major components and how they fit together.
Ensure that overall solutions specifications are published, updated and controlled.
Control the development of interfaces for the different components so they meet interface specifications.
Help build reusable assets for use in future projects.

We would love to hear from you if

BSc Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
5 -7 year experience working with Microsoft. AWS at a senior level
Minimum 5 years working as a Solution Architect.
Experience in both bespoke software development, integration and configuration of COTS products.
Experience of delivering solutions in an Agile (Scrum) methodology.
Ability to communicate technical solutions to Senior Business leaders.
Good knowledge of: Java/JEE; Web services & SOAP/REST; Cloud based technologies around SaaS, Paas, Iaas; ERP/CRM architectures/solutions

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