Architect - Data and Microservices

Amadeus North America - Salt Lake City, UT

Full-time

Hybrid - Salt Lake City, UT

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Navitaire, an Amadeus company, is at the forefront of innovation in the travel industry, transforming how the world perceives travel. With a robust customer base of over 50 clients, including some of the most successful hybrid and low-cost airlines globally, Navitaire presents a unique opportunity to significantly impact the travel sector. The company is currently evolving its portfolio of hosted services into a next-generation modern airline retailing platform, which aligns with contemporary industry offer and order retailing concepts. This transformation is rooted in customer-centric value delivery and is propelled by cloud-first modern engineering practices. We are seeking talented and motivated individuals who are passionate about innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning to join our team and help shape the evolution of our platform. This position is hybrid, requiring presence in the local office 2-3 days a week. The ideal candidate will possess experience in implementing or designing cloud-native solutions that utilize cloud-native architecture patterns and practices. They will be adept at analyzing data for transformation from SQL to NoSQL, documenting the structure of current databases, creating new data models, and ensuring alignment with business requirements, rules, and regulations. Effective communication skills are essential, as the candidate will collaborate closely with team members across cross-functional scrum teams. They will work alongside product owners and engineers to identify, plan, and prioritize the necessary work to transition data between legacy and new systems. Additionally, they will assist in designing bridge mechanisms to synchronize data between systems and document the systems being created using diagrams and other visualizations to support operational and deployment planning as well as security review artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with architects, software engineers, business analysts, and product owners to understand current data models, implement and optimize new data models.
• Communicate findings, insights, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide support and training to users of new data models and database structures.
• Analyze existing database structures to understand data flows, relationships, and dependencies.
• Document the current database schema, data dictionaries, and data lineage.
• Identify areas for improvement and optimization in current database structures.
• Collaborate with product owners, data architects, and software engineers to design and develop new data models that meet business needs.
• Ensure data models are scalable, efficient, and aligned with best practices.
• Create and maintain data models, diagrams, and documentation.
• Understand and apply relevant data governance, data privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and implement data quality checks and validation processes.
• Provide documentation and diagrams that can be used by other architects, engineers, product, security, and operations to understand the system.

Requirements

• Experience implementing or designing cloud-native solutions using cloud-native architecture patterns and practices.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to analyze data for transformation from SQL to NoSQL.
• Experience in documenting database structures and creating new data models.
• Ability to collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and enterprise data architects.
• Deep understanding of data management and data governance principles.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with data quality checks and validation processes.
• Familiarity with data privacy and regulatory requirements.