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Solutions Architect

IATA • Geneva, CH • 1w ago

Employment Type: Permanent
Contract Duration:

Why you will love working here

At IATA, we represent over 350 airlines worldwide, striving to make aviation safer, smarter, more sustainable, and inclusive.

• Our Values are not just words on a page - they are the energy behind everything we do: ONE IATA - We collaborate across teams, TRUSTED - We do the right thing, INNOVATIVE - We make tomorrow better, INCLUSIVE - We embrace diverse perspectives.
• With over 30,000 courses available, we believe in continuous learning and support your growth in an ever-changing industry.
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion are our priorities. We are certified by the Equal Salary Foundation, offering equal pay and family-friendly policies.
• We encourage community involvement through volunteering and strive to make tomorrow better for aviation and our communities. We offer time off so you can support causes important to you.
• We promote work-life balance with flexible work options, including remote and hybrid work, a generous 'work from abroad' policy, and you get your birthday off!

About the team you are joining

As a member of I&D Architecture and Solution Design team, you will be primarily responsible for the Solution Architecture for both IATA’s custom built and commercial off the shelf IT solutions. This will include the architecture for a varied number of technologies, such as Java/JEE, .net and including cloud-based technologies and integration tools, such as AWS and Mulesoft as required. You will act as the expert for the I&D design of IATA’s solutions and products, and for the projects/enhancements that you would be assigned, you will follow up and ensure the quality of implementation. You will be creating high level design documents and will be an overall subject matter expert of all aspects of Solution Architecture. You need to understand, define and recommend coding best practices and integration options, including middleware products such as Biztalk, Mulesoft and AWS amongst others.

What your day would be like

Solution Architecture:
▪Design key technical components of IATA’s IT solutions and own the end to end technical implementation.
▪Participate in design sessions with the business and IT teams to provide various design alternatives.
▪Ensure the technical design aligns to overall enterprise architecture and scales with it accordingly.
▪Define technical best practices for the implementation; Provide the Architecture/ high level design documents.
▪Perform code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices.
▪Evaluate possible application performance bottle necks at early stages of the implementation and recommend remedial measures.
▪Identify any application/code security issues and recommend remedial measures.
General Architecture:
▪Demonstrate a strong capability in architecting and delivering complex integration scenarios.
▪Develop, communicate, maintain and enforce the overall architecture (applications, data, integration, etc) of the systems with each project.
▪Contribute to the enterprise architecture group with accountability for system architecture and governance across the business and its IT suppliers ensuring the end to end integrity of the solution.
▪Promote co-operation and facilitate coordination of all technical streams within projects/programmers to achieve the successful delivery of an integrated solution.
▪Provide overall design principles for software and hardware integration, performance design, reliability design, manageability design and security design.
▪Produce the appropriate level of formal architecture and design documentation.
▪Work closely with project management and development teams to assist the planning and review of project schedules, project reviews, project sizing and gap analysis.
▪Define subsystems and major components and how they fit together.
▪Ensure that overall solutions specifications are published, updated and controlled.
▪Control the development of interfaces for the different components so they meet interface specifications.
▪Help build reusable assets for use in future projects.