Digital Solution Architect

We Put the World on Vacation At Travel + Leisure Co., our mission is simple: to put the world on vacation. Our vacation ownership brands, Club Wyndham, Worldmark, Margaritaville Vacation Club, and Shell Vacations Club, include more than 245 vacation club resort locations across the globe. Innovation and growth keep our work interesting and fun. Every day is a chance to learn something new and turn vacation inspiration into exceptional experiences for millions of travelers worldwide.

WE PUT THE WORLD ON VACATION Our world-class Hospitality with HEART and core competencies including Customer Obsession, Transparency, Empowerment and Decision Velocity are the pillars to being the world’s leading membership and leisure travel company, with nearly 20 travel brands across its resort, travel club, and lifestyle portfolio. The company provides outstanding vacation experiences and travel inspiration to millions of owners, members, and subscribers every year through its products and services. Our global team of associates brings hospitality to millions each year, turning vacation inspiration into exceptional travel experiences.  

The Digital Solution Architect reports to the Director of Web and Mobile Applications of Digital Technologies. Our charter is to drive innovation and transformation across Travel + Leisure Co. by creating innovative solutions that deliver exceptional customer experiences. The organization leverages advanced technologies such as GenAI, mobile app development, and data analytics to empower business and product stakeholders across different brands and regions. The organization also fosters a culture of agile collaboration, continuous improvement, and optimization of the digital platforms, ensuring reliability, security, and performance. 

Digital Solutions Architect will be responsible for translating business vision and strategy into a well architected Digital/IT solution architecture/design for one or more applications or services. They are highly skilled and motivated individuals with considerable experience in digital solutions architecture and can guide our development team and stakeholders in creating exceptional applications and services. The ideal candidate will be a leader with a solid technical background who bridges the gap between business outcomes and a technology solution with thought leadership, technical specialty, and mentorship in the analysis, development, testing, and implementation. This person ensures ongoing support of evolving business objectives by delivering solution architecture designs for digital channels (web, mobile) focused applications that combine guidance from different enterprise architecture viewpoints (business, information, technical).

How You'll Shine:

• Deliver solution architecture artifacts for digital technology initiatives that are focused on creating technical alignment and architectural direction for the solution intent, minimizing complexity, and avoiding unnecessary duplication of capabilities
• Partner with IT managers and portfolio stakeholders to understand business capabilities, outcomes, and solution intent. Provide a prospective conceptual solution, with cost estimation of the effort that considers the economic impact of design decisions
• Define features, phases and requirements that realize business value, in addition to critical non-functional requirements that enable maximum reliability & availability, performance & scalability, security & compliance, manageability, data quality and integration aspects of solution design and implementation
• Develop and consult on application and technology roadmaps for assigned application portfolio domains
• Create/update reference architectures for various customer experience channel like web and mobile, while also documenting existing digital application architectures
• Participate in solution demonstrations and technical reviews to provide oversight that fosters built-in quality of technical solutions that support current and future business needs
• Participate in an Architecture Community of Practice to ensure consistency in how emerging designs and tradeoffs are managed, without becoming a source of delays
• Explore and validate innovative and existing technologies, using rapid prototyping approaches to evaluate and pilot innovations, ensuring new products and services can integrate into steady stand operations (5 % time)

Travel Requirements

• Travel requirements for the job is 0% except occasional travel needs for Trainings, Conferences, and Vendor meets.

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience. Master’s degree, or equivalent experience, is preferred.
• Certification with one or more leading technology frameworks and platforms is a plus.
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, infrastructure and operations, and Architecture and ITIL frameworks
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS).
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent analytical and technical skills
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Familiarity with basic graphical modeling approaches, tools, and model repositories
• Ability to balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisions.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical capabilities within a comprehensive overall solution.
• Ability to operate independently with minimal supervision, managing numerous analysis and design priorities without losing sight of strategic context.
• Understand software architectures, frameworks, design patterns, infrastructure architecture and design, and data modeling
• Working experience or familiarity with Architecture Repository tools like MEGA, Lean IX or similar.

• Experience in hands-on applications development leveraging a subset of.

  o   J2EE Technologies – Core Java, JSPs, REST and SOAP Web Services, JDBC

  o   Web Technologies- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, REACT or Similar

  o   Version Control – Bit Bucket, SVN, TFS, GitHub, Copado

  o   Application/Content Server – WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, AEM

• Knowledge of n-tier design and e-business technologies such as application servers, web server, portals, personalization, content management, web transaction processing, backend integration, middleware, and messaging

• Familiarity with full-stack development experience

• Familiarity with Oracle (Java, service bus, app server, reporting, database), Informatica (ETL, MDM, data quality), and to a lesser extent Microsoft (C#/.Net, database) technologies.

• General understanding of data architectures and DBMS technologies.

• Comprehensive understanding of enterprise application integration (EAI), including SOA, API, open data patterns and middleware technologies.

• Understanding of cloud-first and hybrid design patterns and practices on platforms such as AWS, Google, or Azure.

• Exposure and understanding of existing, new, and emerging technologies, and processing environments.

• At least 5 years of experience in information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment.

• Experience with Agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) is desired.

• Experience with API, SOA enabled practices in context of technical agility and digital thinking is desirable

• Business/process knowledge of travel, hospitality, or similar industries a plus

• IT strategy enablement using SaaS, IaaS, or PaaS architecture experience.

• Excellent presentation skills, strong written and oral skills, business relationship skills including the ability to quickly create productive collaborations.

• Experience in application software development methodologies, techniques, processes, and tools.

• Experience working with IT service providers in an outsourced resource model.

Experience equivalent to the education requirement may be accepted in lieu of the education requirement.

How You'll Be Rewarded:

We offer a diverse range of comprehensive health and welfare benefits to associates who work 30 or more hours per week to meet your needs and support you throughout your career with us. Travel + Leisure Co. benefits include:

Note: Temporary and/or seasonal associates are ineligible for Paid Time Off.

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life and accident coverage
• Disability
• Depending on position, paid time off, parental leave and holidays (speak to your recruiter for additional information)
• Wish day paid time to volunteer at an approved organization of your choice
• 401k with employer match (subject to eligibility requirements, including tenure - speak to your recruiter for additional information)
• Legal and identify theft plan
• Voluntary income protection benefits
• Wellness program (subject to provider availability)
• Employee Assistance Program

Where Memories Start with You

Hospitality is at the heart of all we do at Travel + Leisure Co. Here, you’ll find an inclusive environment where we deliver excellence and take time to have fun, celebrate together, and support one another. We're always looking ahead to what’s next and how we can strengthen our business, its neighboring communities, and the customer experience. Join our global team and build a career where memories start with you.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applications will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class. If you require any reasonable accommodation to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process, please email your request to MyCareer@travelandleisure.com, including the title and location of the position for which you are applying.

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