Solutions Architect with Fares/Pricing experience - East Coast USA or UK
The preferred Candidate will support the conception, design, implementation, and on-going operations of the company’s business applications. They will also provide airline industry IT knowledge in areas of airfare pricing for fare management and/or decision support systems such as SABRE AirVision, SITA Insight, GDS pricing experience, ITA/Google, etc.
Responsibilities/Role:
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Support the adoption and upkeep of the company’s Enterprise Technical Architecture (ETA) model
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Analyse business change drivers to define a collection of integrated data, architecture and application solutions required to satisfy business needs
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Support the creation of plans and actions to enable the delivery of the company’s technology strategy and specific technical solutions
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Create solution designs or provide input/oversight on solution designs as appropriate
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Consult with Applications Solutions Delivery, Operations & Production Services
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Analyse the current environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend a course of action for solution
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Maintain a current technical skill set in applications development, data management, large scale systems integration, and various middleware technologies with particular emphasis on SOA, JEE and complex Web applications, and high transaction/high volume data processing service based application architectures.
Skills required:
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10+ years of technology architecture, design and solutions delivery - experience in solutions definition & implementations spanning multiple platforms & environments (large-scale transaction processing environments, client/ server environments, etc.).
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Significant experience with well-defined modern SDLC methodologies.
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Extensive knowledge of formal software design techniques and demonstrated in-depth knowledge and understanding of multi-tier application design and development.
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Experience with development, implementation/integration, and operation of large scale heterogeneous systems.
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Experience with leading industry application server platforms & software development tools.
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5-10 years experience using Airline industry data in large scale airfare pricing systems and/or airline fare management and pricing decision support systems.
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Experience with large scale private or public distributed cloud computing systems.
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Experience with large scale SOA and micro services based computing systems.
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technology Management or equivalent relevant technology experience. Advanced degree is a plus.
Duration: 6-12 months +
Rate: Please quote your best day rate or expected salary
Client will consider freelance or full time employees for this role.
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