Solutions Architect

Job description: Application and integration-focused Senior Solution Architect who can own the complete customer transaction from the digital channel through APIs and CDS business services into Emirates enterprise systems and external chauffeur/service-provider platforms. • Strong hands-on experience (8+ years) in enterprise application and solution architecture, with significant experience architecting complex, customer-facing digital platforms. • Proven experience defining end-to-end solution architecture across web/mobile channels, backend services, integration platforms, enterprise systems and external service providers. • Ability to translate business capabilities, functional requirements and customer journeys into scalable, secure and resilient technical solutions. • Strong experience defining: • Solution Architecture • Application Architecture • Integration Architecture • Data flows and system interactions • Deployment Architecture • Security Architecture • Strong understanding of microservices and domain-driven architecture, including service decomposition, bounded contexts, service communication and API contracts. • Strong experience with API-first architecture, including: • RESTful APIs • OpenAPI / Swagger • API gateways • API versioning • Authentication and authorisation • API lifecycle management • Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, including synchronous, asynchronous and event-driven integration. • Experience architecting solutions using messaging and event technologies such as: • Kafka • Solace • JMS • Strong understanding of enterprise integration platforms such as SnapLogic or equivalent iPaaS technologies. • Experience defining architectures for applications built using modern technology stacks such as Java / Spring Boot and React / TypeScript. • Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, including: • Containers and Docker • Kubernetes / OpenShift • Infrastructure scalability • Configuration and secrets management • High availability and resiliency • Experience defining solutions leveraging relational and NoSQL databases, caching and appropriate data storage patterns. • Strong understanding of security architecture and secure-by-design principles, including: • OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect • JWT • Role-Based Access Control • Certificates and encryption • Secrets management • Data protection Preferable: • Experience architecting airline, travel, transportation, mobility, logistics or complex booking platforms would be highly desirable. • Ability to define the end-to-end architecture supporting Chauffeur Drive booking, modification, cancellation and fulfilment journeys. • Experience architecting real-time transactional platforms handling availability, eligibility, capacity and service confirmation. • Ability to architect solutions supporting complex customer eligibility and business-rule evaluation. • Experience designing solutions involving address capture/validation, geolocation, service-area determination, vehicle selection and routing-related services. • Strong understanding of integration patterns required across customer-facing channels, reservation systems, loyalty platforms, CRM, payment services and operational fulfilment systems. • Experience integrating with external suppliers /service providers, including patterns for handling availability, booking confirmation, failures, retries and reconciliation.

8+ years in enterprise application and solution architecture; proven experience defining end-to-end solution architecture across web/mobile channels, backend services, integration platforms, enterprise systems and external service providers; strong understanding of microservices and domain-driven architecture; API-first architecture with RESTful APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, API gateways, API versioning, authentication and authorization, API lifecycle management; knowledge of enterprise integration patterns (synchronous, asynchronous, event-driven); experience with messaging and event technologies (Kafka, Solace, JMS); strong knowledge of iPaaS platforms such as SnapLogic; experience with Java/Spring Boot and React/TypeScript; cloud-native architecture (containers and Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift, infrastructure scalability, configuration and secrets management, high availability and resiliency); experience with relational and NoSQL databases, caching and data storage patterns; security architecture and secure-by-design principles (OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect, JWT, RBAC, certificates and encryption, secrets management, data protection).

Own the complete customer transaction from the digital channel through APIs and CDS business services into Emirates enterprise systems and external chauffeur/service-provider platforms; define end-to-end solution architecture across web/mobile channels, backend services, integration platforms, enterprise systems and external service providers; translate business capabilities, functional requirements and customer journeys into scalable, secure and resilient technical solutions.