Solutions Architect

As an Architect of Solution Engineering at Accelya you will be responsible to design and architect new solutions and improve customer specific products, including but not limited to the following areas:

• IATA NDC
• Booking, Pricing, Ticketing, Payments, Reporting
• Agile Methodology
• Supporting Sales and Pre-sales on Accelya Products

You will work on a daily basis with the business analysts, development, QA, PM and SM team members to solution products that customers love. You will also have to coordinate core solutions with the Product and Technology Teams.

As a key leader of the team, you maximize the value delivered by ensuring that the teams backlog is aligned with the customer's and key stakeholder needs and the solution or capabilities needs are well understood.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• In close partnership with the Project Manager, Business Analyst, Development Team and QA throughout the delivery lifecycle, ensuring the customer and business voice is well understood throughout.
• Work with the customers to understand the requirements and design the solution that best fits customer's need in Accelya's eco system.
• By working with key stakeholders (PM, Architects etc.) you can create architectural solution documents and guide the business analyst with the Solution Approach and BRD documents.
• You understand the market and transformations occurring in the customer base, you represent the customer (buyer) and user (business user or end customer) in the planning process.
• You work with the team on estimations and expected release times, holding stakeholders account to commitments.
• You welcome feedback and adapt plans from internal and external stakeholders and ensure quality, security and design are parts of every iteration.
• Help the Pre-Sales and Sales Team with RFP responses, solution design responses and even demo Accelya products.

Knowledge, Experience & Skills:

• 6+ years professional experience in technical lead and business solution architect roles.
• Experience in the travel industry.
• Expertise in designing end-to-end workflow solutions, leveraging NDC.
• Experience diagramming solutions, e.g. sequence diagram, logical data models etc.
• Has a proven track record of action and execution in bringing customer needs flawlessly to market.
• An excellent communicator and team collaborator to ensure execution of the delivery.
• Experience in platform/API solutions along with business user front ends.
• Demonstrate technical curiosity and passion for exploring new technologies for future technical roadmap via continuous learning and self-development.
• Experience understanding technical and platform topics.
• Worked in Agile teams with a benefit of training or certification.
• AWS platform is preferred.