Solution Architect - London (Hybrid - 3 days a week in office) - Up to £90,000 - Aviation and/or Retail experience

A Global travel brand is looking for a Solutions Architect who will be responsible for the delivery of not only the Solutions Architecture, but also the strategy and roadmapping of the enterprise technology. The ideal candidate will have experience in the Aviation or Retail industry.

Day to day

Some of your key responsibilities as a Solution Architect will be:

• Working closely with the enterprise domain architects
• Providing solution designs in line with domain and enterprise architectures - mainly focused on airline retailing (Offer / Order, IATA One Order, Digital and NDC).
• Work the NDC distribution strategy and roadmap aiming at improving customers' booking experience and increasing revenues.
• Contributing to both technical architectures to ensure feedback from implemented architectures and also the continued development of technical strategies and reference architectures.
• Managing total risk and cost of the IT Estate across the business

About you

In addition to the above, we are looking for our successful candidate to demonstrate the following:

• Experience in Offer / Order, IATA One Order, and NDC is advantageous.
• Understanding of Digital integration and customer facing technology stacks.
• Experience of working with complex API's (both SOAP and Restful) is essential.
• Knowledge of modern architectures, utilizing cloud capabilities and loosely coupled architectures.
• Travel or Airline knowledge is desirable.

If this sounds like you, and you would like to be on this exciting journey with us, we would love to hear from you!

Solution Architect

Reading/Exeter/Remote

What it's like to work at Landmark:

We're a friendly, dynamic and supportive team. We encourage passion, ambition and collaboration, both in our performance as a team and individually. New ideas are encouraged. We actively promote involvement in the development and direction of our products and services, as well as finding more efficient ways to work. We also love a good work social and team building events. As well as this we offer:

· Competitive salary

· 25 days’ holiday, with optional 5 days unpaid leave per year

· Free parking

· Annual lifestyle allowance of £300 to put towards an activity of your choice

· Cycle to Work scheme and Gym Flex scheme

· Internal coaching/mentoring system throughout your time here

· Focus on training and career progression

· Family friendly policies

· Happy to talk about flexible working

The Opportunity

The Solution Architect is responsible for defining the solution view for specific problems in the enterprise, from the application, data, and infrastructure perspectives across Landmark Information Group, whilst ensuring alignment with the architecture strategy.

Your role will involve:

· Defining and owning the solution architectures, including ‘as is’, ‘to be’ and transitional states

· Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure alignment to the architecture strategy, vision and principles

· Communicating solution architectures at the governing architecture review board, and addressing any actions

· Working with Software Engineering to ensure implementation alignment to the solution

· Managing architectural risk and debt at a solution level

About You

To be successful as a Solution Architect you will have experience in a similar role and be someone who can communicate to all levels of stakeholders. You will demonstrate excellent skills in solution architecture, including defining architectural functional and non-functional requirements, architectural diagrams, data flows, total cost of ownership, standards and design patterns.

You will also have/be:

· Collaborative, curious, creative and accountable

· Proven experience of defining, communicating and delivering quality solution architectures in one or both of the following clouds, Azure and AWS

· Enthusiasm for the technology and property industries, with an ability to identify innovation opportunities

· Question the why? Be able to ask questions, suggest alternative options and drive continuous improvement

· Commercially astute

About Us

Landmark Information Group holds a wide portfolio of market leading PropTech businesses that span an incredible range of markets and technology platforms across the sector.  With well-known application suites, online services and massive national scale property data as well as premier geospatial datasets we are at the forefront of innovation and thought leadership in the industry.

We deliver award-winning solutions to estate agency, conveyancing, surveying, lender valuations, land asset management, environmental consultancy, and Government markets.  This is a chance to join the business as we make major steps forward in leveraging the latest cloud and large-scale technologies to start bringing together the entire market to a unified platform.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.  We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.