Enterprise Architect – Product Inventory Domain

Overview

We’re an ambitious bunch and we don’t intend on stopping here. We want to lead the industry, become the holiday provider of choice and to do this we’re building remarkable teams with modern ways of working. That’s where you come in!

What you ll bring to the team:

Reporting to the Head of Architecture, we are looking for an Architect to join our growing Technology Team at easy

Jet Holidays. The team is a dynamic group of practical and pragmatic architects responsible for providing strategic technology decisions, providing solution design and being the custodians of architecture information across the organisation

Job Purpose

As the Enterprise Architect for the Product Inventory Domain, you will be responsible for the Product & Inventory technology architecture strategy for easy

Jet Holidays, ensuring it’s alignment with both wider technology and business strategy. You will be responsible for working with our business on aiding ideation and discovery for key strategic Commercial initiatives. You will also be responsible for high level solution design for those initiatives. The role will involve working with domain solution architects who are dedicated to solution design and the wider team comprising of Enterprise and Solution architects all reporting to the Head of Architecture.

The Product and Inventory domain at easy

Jet Holidays covers the areas of backend reservation systems, inventory setup and maintenance systems (e.g. accommodation onboarding) and integration with 3rd party product inventory availability providers including accommodation, flight and transfer systems.

You will be accountable for all product inventory domain architecture design artefacts and ensuring all designs and design decisions are governed according to the practice. You will also be responsible for guiding solution architects in iterative product solution design.

Job Accountabilities

• To lead the technology strategy for end to end solutions in the Product Inventory Domain, working with technical leads covering each product under development, and the Head of Architecture driving the long-term architectural direction.
• Work with the Business functions in discovery for new business ideas and major Holidays initiatives, providing conceptual solutions, options analysis, estimation and guiding the business in realising the initiative vision.
• Produce high quality, comprehensive Solution designs artefacts for key strategic initiatives demonstrating a balance of different functional & non-functional drivers and requirements, effective understanding of solution risk, and alignment to broader IT strategy and standards, delivered in an agile, Product-based framework.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the architecture wider architecture practice maintaining views of evolving Product & Inventory technology landscape, identifying patterns and standards and assuring digital design artefacts and design decisions are well documented and well governed.

Key Skills Required

• Experience of pragmatic architecture governance process in design governance, production of enterprise artefacts and maintenance of relevant architecture viewpoints. Demonstrable experience of leading major initiative discovery and experimentation.
• Demonstrable experience of designing high quality software solutions in-line with business needs and timescales
• Ability to confidently present solution architecture and strategy to both IT and business audiences
• The ability to understand complex concepts and communicate them in a simple manner to business and technology stakeholders
• Experience of designing/implementing solutions, including:
• Large, multi-technology, multi-vendor solutions
• Product Inventory Management Platforms (Tour Operator Platforms Desirable)
• Order Management Platforms
• Caching & Search Solutions
• Product/content Ingestion, Curation and Publishing solutions (desirable)
• Cloud Native Solutions
• Integration Service architectures and patterns
• AWS solution architecture services e.g.Event Bridge, Lambda, Step Functions, S3, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, DynamoDB
• Experience of building internal and external 3rd party integration architectures
• Experience of Event Driven Architecture…