IT Architect

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Apply locations Orlando area time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id R-83386 We Put the World on Vacation
At Travel + Leisure Co., 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. 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 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).
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. 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
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
Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience. Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, infrastructure and operations, and Architecture and ITIL frameworks
Excellent analytical and technical skills
Excellent planning and organizational skills
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.
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 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.
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
IT strategy enablement using SaaS, IaaS, or PaaS architecture experience.
Experience in application software development methodologies, techniques, processes, and tools.
Experience working with IT service providers in an outsourced resource model.
Note: Temporary and/or seasonal associates are ineligible for Paid Time Off.
Medical
Dental
Flexible spending accounts
Disability
Depending on position, paid time off, parental leave and holidays (speak to your recruiter for additional information)
Legal and identify theft plan
We're always looking ahead to what’s next and how we can strengthen our business, its neighboring communities, and the customer experience. locations Orlando area time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago Solution Architect
locations Orlando area time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago Travel + Leisure Co. is the world’s leading membership and leisure travel company offering vacation ownership, travel membership, and exchange programs.