Lead Solution Architect

We are looking for a talented and dedicated Lead Solution Architect to join the newly formed Payments & Mobile technology organisation which looks after TUI’s Mobile applications and Global Payment solutions.

The Lead Solution Architect is responsible for the full architecture landscape of TUI’s Mobile Applications and their supporting infrastructure and oversees key technical and design decisions from ideation through to implementation. You collaborate closely with Heads of Product, Heads of Technology and other key stakeholders, and have a shared responsibility for the overall business outcomes for your area. You act as your domain’s spokesperson in senior technical engagements with other domains. 

About TUI Group

TUI Group is one of the world’s leading leisure travel groups, with over 220 trusted brands in 180 countries and more than 30 million customers. Discovering the world’s diversity, exploring new horizons, experiencing foreign countries and cultures: travel broadens the mind. At TUI, we create unforgettable moments for customers across the world and make their dreams come true. We are mindful of the importance of travel and tourism for many countries in the world and people living there. We partner with these countries to help shape their future – in a committed and sustainable manner.

TUI Group’s vision is to make travel experiences special. To fulfil this vision, we never stop looking ahead, seeking new ways to delight our customers and grow our business. We recognise the power of digital and the massive contribution this brings to creating a truly unique and differentiated customer experience.

Responsibilities

•  You are responsible for the creation of technology and organisational transformation activities and technology direction.
• You will help shape a vision and strategies regarding IT architecture to translate business opportunities and customer expectations into innovative IT solutions within Payments & Mobile domain.
• You will use your excellent facilitation and solicitation skills to effectively engage with teams to enhance their capability, continuously exploring new ways to improve the quality of solutions, ensuring that options are considered, and recommended approaches are clearly designed with valuable solutions.
• You govern architecture patterns, policies, standards and practices and help define and execute the technology strategy for TUI and each domain, using your knowledge of compliance and integrity of the business strategies.
• You identify and plan improvement architectural practices in an agile environment and map the discrepancy between the current processes and the desired state to continuously innovate processes and adapt them to market trends.
• You also ensure that technical implementation is in accordance with the enterprise and solution architecture standards, and the objectives of the organisation.
• You maintain a strong understanding of the bigger picture, keeping yourself continuously informed of the latest innovations, technologies, patterns and practices in the Mobile and Cloud spaces.
• You think ahead and understand the overall business context and strategy and use these insights to shape emergent architecture of TUI Mobile applications & their surrounding infrastructure.
• You ensure we have the architecture capacity, capabilities and culture to deliver business outcomes sustainably and with the right level of quality from the outset.
• You use your deep skills to help teams improve their expertise in building first class Mobile solutions powered by latest Cloud architectures across the Domain.
• You never come across as preachy or dogmatic, but you are always clear and vocal about what you believe in.
• You always drive for technical excellence, ownership and self-organisation at team level. You help the team to find a balance between tactical solutions and long-term platform sustainability and maintainability.
• You research, evaluate and test new processes and tools, helping teams use them effectively, and you collaborate closely with Technology Leads to increase the Mobile, Cloud and DevSecOps maturity in all teams to help achieve the agreed OKRs/goals at team and domain level. 
• As an experienced Solutions Architect you have solid experience delivering secure, scalable, reliable, maintainable Mobile and Cloud solutions.
• You enjoy working in a fast-paced agile environment and find joy delighting our mobile users with best-in-class experience.
• You will participate in, or even lead, domain-wide engineering excellence efforts and propose high impact initiatives and projects.
• You and your colleagues will work closely with Technology Leads, DevSecOps specialists and other Architects to continuously improve the domain’s Mobile and Cloud capabilities.
• You are an active member of the global Mobile, Cloud and Architecture communities. You love to learn and acquire new skills and you enjoy teaching others.
• You are not afraid to get stuck in and work directly with teams – you hate being in an ivory tower.

Qualifications

• An experienced Lead Architect to oversee architecture principles, coach teams, and foster reusability across systems. The ideal candidate will partner with senior stakeholders to align enterprise architecture with business goals, ensuring consistency and scalability across initiatives.
• Thought leader in Mobile and Cloud best practices, active member of global Architecture, Cloud and Security communities.
• An experienced architect authentic servant leader with passion for Mobile technology and Cloud architecture.
• Proficiency in translating business vision into viable technical strategies and in conveying such strategies back to business stakeholders.
• Experience in working in an agile environment and able to integrate architecture practises in an agile way of working.
• Great communicator and facilitator comfortable working across organisational and market boundaries and managing senior stakeholders. Able to disagree yet align.
• Good grasp of experience with Cloud technology, design patterns, micro-services, CI/CD and DevSecOps.
• Hands-on technical knowledge and delivery experience in several of these areas:
• Cloud solutions & deployment (AWS)
• Mobile eco-system
• Distributed architectures
• Digital transformation and Legacy platform migration
• RESTful APIs and API gateways
• Good knowledge of various Mobile platforms and technologies and the challenges working in a Mobile environment.
• Open minded, inquisitive, life-long learner.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, highly autonomous.
• Enjoys and gets energized by complex technical problem solving with an ability to push innovation through technical solutions.
• Customer centric, passionate about delivering great digital products and services.

Benefits 

• Benefit Café with categories such as sports, leisure, books, etc. 
• Supportive and inclusive work environment with personalized attention to each team member. 
• Engaging projects featuring innovative and cutting-edge products. 
• Competitive salary with periodic reviews. 
• Flexible working hours ensuring a healthy work-life balance. 
• Educational support, including funded language classes. 
• Luxmed private healthcare packages. 
• Comfortable workspace, fresh fruit Mondays, and remote work opportunities. 
• Exciting team events and networking opportunities. 

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