Job Details
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
Why Join Us?
To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Introduction to the team:
Private Label Solutions (PLS) is the B2B arm of Expedia Group. We bring Expedia Group’s innovative technology and distribution solutions to partners across the world. These businesses include global financial institutions, corporate managed travel, offline travel agents, global travel suppliers (like major airlines) and many more.
The Expedia Private Label Solutions (PLS) team is looking for a Senior Architect. Our team is responsible for defining and building commercial platform solutions for our B2B partners. This includes multi-product headless commerce API, Online Travel Agency platform and tools, and white label templates along with custom solutions built using EG platform and 3rd party capabilities.
We want you to bring your experience and knowledge to our teams as we build out the future of business-to-business features on the Expedia platform. You will need to bring thought leadership, great communication, and collaboration along with the ability to work in a fast-paced agile environment.
In this role you will:
Build relationships with engineering and product leaders across the organization to understand business problems and apply a technology lens to resolve them
Design and build software solutions that handle complex problems with simple designs
Coaching and mentoring: Combine and share knowledge and skills in more than one functional area to promote effectiveness in the department or business unit/function
Interpret internal/external business challenges and recommend integration of the appropriate systems, applications, and technology to provide a fully functional solution to a business problem
Master software design with the best methods, shape coding methodologies and best methods and promote adoption of new platform technologies
Enable optimum organizational efficiency by taking a whole systems approach and thinking across boundaries to identify which policies/processes should be standardized and which should differ
Identify when new trends may be too disorderly for a reasonable implementation or spot the ephemerality of new trends
Champion prioritized goals and work with others across EG to investigate those initiatives. Ensure documentation is not overwhelming or obsolete
Provide leadership, technical direction, and architectural input into product vision and roadmap development
Work across global teams for Activities to drive towards desired north star architecture
Experience and Qualifications:
Bachelor's or Master’s degree in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
5+ years industry experience in full-stack software development across multiple technologies, languages, and frameworks
Makes choices across teams to apply a number of technologies or languages with experience in multiple domains
Presents new technology choice to technical and non-technical observers, able to guide others to make well defined technology choices
Understands systems being created across EG and how your own business unit would integrate with them
Able to understand and design highly sophisticated systems
Ability to establish standards for operational excellence and code quality at a multi-project level
Drives principles and practices in design of software that is easily testable and observable
Experience building high scale distributed cloud-based microservice suites
Strong background in third-party cloud services, especially Amazon AWS, UI development using React JS a plus
Effective coaching and leadership skills and an ability to manage engineering projects across a diverse organization with global decentralized teams
Strong communication and presentation experience and the ability to explain technical details and challenges to a wide variety of people
Ability to look at solutions in creative and unconventional ways, recognize opportunities to innovate, and engage partners in a vision and strategy
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.
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