Enterprise Architect Principal Hybrid

Enterprise Architect, Principal - Cloud SystemsScottsdale, AZ (Hybrid)Who are we looking for?

Choice Hotels, one of the world's largest lodging franchisors, has an exciting new opportunity as our Enterprise Architecture, Principal - Cloud Systems in the Enterprise Architecture team. The award-winning Choice Hotels Technology Center is revolutionizing hospitality with cloud computing, AWS, data, ML/AI, and application development. As a key contributor to our innovation and cloud strategy, you will support Product Management in the near and long-term strategy and planning activities of our generative AI and cloud capabilities, and you will work closely with Engineering to modernize and optimize our platform and delivery capabilities.

Do you have significant technical expertise and a demonstrated history of architecting and delivering leading-edge cloud solutions? We invite you to apply today for our Enterprise Architecture, Principal - Cloud Systems role and #MakeItYourChoice.

Your Responsibilities

• Partner and align with key business and operational stakeholders throughout Choice Hotels to understand their objectives and long-range strategies.

• Collaborate directly and proactively on the strategic roadmap to influence and inform the roadmap based on hospitality industry and technology trends. Translate trends into cloud infrastructure and development process opportunities.

• Engage in and be a thought leader in innovation / prototyping of new generative AI and cloud capabilities.

• Work with technology organization leaders to align business roadmap and technology capabilities to ensure long term efficient, effective, and value-driven delivery.

• Act as thought partner to Business and Technology leadership and Product Management, generating and prioritizing strategic ideas.

• Drive innovation in cloud systems and generative AI with respect to hospitality use cases.

• Own the strategic architecture for cloud area. Regularly assess current state and potential future states, identifying attainable incremental transition states.

• Create architecture runway for Product Management and delivery teams, considering new business capabilities as well as product technical debt.

• Engage in integrated planning with other Enterprise / Solution Architects to ensure seamless and cohesive operation of systems with other domains.

• Contribute consistently to Architecture Governance boards (e.g. Architecture Board, Technology Governance Committee) representing cloud space.

• Stay up on the latest technology trends in cloud and in the hospitality industry. You will be on point to assess new trends and Choice's readiness to adopt new trends into our ecosystem.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related field, from a four-year college or university. Master's degree or post graduate degree or equivalent work experience preferred.

• Minimum of 10 years relevant experience in software development, information systems, or equivalent technical environment, inclusive of experience in the development of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and API-based architecture, 8 years of related development experience and 4 years of experience serving a development team technical lead/or architecture experience

• Experience in implementing architectures that satisfy business, systems, information, security, application, and technology architecture requirements as well as support resilience, observability, and supportability requirements.

• Experience in systems engineering techniques such as architecture modeling, alternative analysis, tradeoff analysis, and portfolio analysis.

• Experience in business process modeling & reengineering.

• Exceptional knowledge and experience in designing and implementing enterprise class systems of applications including:

• Designing service APIs.

• Designing systems integrated with messaging solutions with a working knowledge of the service and messaging design patterns.

• Defining application and system boundaries and an understanding of Domain-Driven Design.

• Defining non-functional requirements such as scalability, availability, and security.

• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

• Proven leader with the demonstrated experience of creating technical solutions in large organizations with complex business requirements and constraints.

• Thought leadership that embodies being innovative, entrepreneurial and is well respected, actively sought out and is considered an authority by peers.

• High energy and drive. Laser-focused on delivery with strategic-thinking, collaboration, facilitation, negotiation, and motivational skills.

• Strategic dexterity which includes outstanding situational and flexible thinking with the courage to push difficult or unpopular perspectives.

• Business/Application Knowledge which demonstrates deep knowledge and expertise in multiple as well as inter-dependent applications and processes.

• Subject matter expert across multiple technologies, architectures, and business applications with special emphasis on application/systems inter-dependencies.

• Expert in one or more programming languages with a functional knowledge of multiple languages such as Java, Python, Node.js, Kotlin, and Swift.

• Expert in development upon major frameworks and libraries such as Spring, Pandas, Angular, and React.

• Expert in developing applications with data stored in a relational database such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLServer. Experience analyzing and performance tuning database calls. Familiarity with non-relational or NOSQL database technologies.

• Expert in defining service APIs using standard specifications such as Swagger or OpenAPI. Proficient with messaging integrations using JMS or Kafka.

• Expert in designing deployments for the cloud environment (AWS, GCP or Azure). Familiarity with distributed system design and an understanding of the related failure conditions.

• Expert with Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, and version control with git. Experience with application profiling, performance tuning, and caching strategies.

• Understanding of Enterprise Architecture frameworks and concepts

• Knowledge of relevant security, regulatory and compliance matters as they relate to system design (PCI, SOX, GDPR, OAuth, ESAPI/OWASP, SAML etc.).

• Self-starter who solves complex technology and operational problems/issues with little to no guidance from senior management. Seeks senior management advice and guidance as needed for critical decisions with.