Senior Solutions Architect - Digital Channels & Integration

About the role

A senior, application and integration-focused Solutions Architect is needed to own the complete customer transaction from the digital channel through APIs and CDS business services into enterprise systems and external chauffeur and service-provider platforms. The role requires strong hands-on experience (8+ years) in enterprise application and solution architecture.

Key responsibilities

• Define end-to-end solution architecture across web and 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.
• Design architectures for Chauffeur Drive booking, modification, cancellation and fulfilment journeys, and real-time transactional platforms handling availability, eligibility, capacity and service confirmation.
• Support complex customer eligibility and business-rule evaluation, and design solutions covering address capture/validation, geolocation, service-area determination, vehicle selection and routing.
• Integrate with external suppliers and service providers, handling availability, booking confirmation, failures, retries and reconciliation.

Required profile

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise application and solution architecture.
• Proven experience defining solution, application, integration, deployment, security and data-flow architectures.
• Strong understanding of microservices and domain-driven architecture, and API-first architecture (REST, OpenAPI/Swagger, API gateways, authentication and authorisation).
• Experience with Kafka, Solace, JMS, iPaaS platforms such as SnapLogic, and stacks such as Java / Spring Boot and React / TypeScript.
• Cloud-native architecture, relational and NoSQL databases, and security-by-design (OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect, JWT, RBAC, encryption, secrets management).
• Experience architecting airline, travel, transportation, mobility or complex booking platforms is highly desirable.