It's a great time to join us at Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC)! ARC accelerates the growth of global air travel by delivering forward-looking travel data, flexible distribution services and other innovative industry solutions. We are a leading travel intelligence company with the world’s largest, most comprehensive global airline ticket dataset, including more than 15 billion passenger flights. By working here, you can contribute to solutions and expertise that strengthen economies and enrich lives. We think big, embrace challenges and explore new ideas to lead the way for the travel industry.

ARC is looking for a Solutions Architect to join our team! The Solutions Architect will provide product teams with technical guidance, develop architecture and design artifacts for the end-to-end solution and may be called to provide technical leadership in a small product team. Additionally, this role will have responsibilities to foster technology innovation, identify opportunities for technical efficiencies, create\modify best practices and communicate those to the appropriate technical stakeholders.

1. Support Product Technical Leads by providing architectural subject matter expertise across the entire solution; including communicating architectural decisions and mentoring other technical staff around the various technologies and decisions. This role may also provide overall technical leadership to smaller working teams as needed.
2. Partner with Product Owners\business SMEs to analyze the business need and provide guidance on solution options and trade-offs. Ensure that the overall technical solution is aligned with the business needs.
3. Drive the creation and modifications of the end-to-end product architecture, identifying and engaging all technical resources necessary to contribute to the architecture\design. This includes ensuring the solution is consistent with ARC architecture and design standards.
4. Identify and drive technical efficiencies where appropriate, create\modify best practices and communicate those to the appropriate technical stakeholders.
5. Stay current with the latest tools, technology ideas, patterns and methodologies; share knowledge by clearly articulating results and ideas to key stakeholders
6. Support Product Technical Leads by providing architectural subject matter expertise across the entire solution; including communicating architectural decisions and mentoring other technical staff around the various technologies and decisions. This role may also provide overall technical leadership to smaller working teams as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• 5+ years of application programming and/or Hands-on technical architecture experience
• 5+ years of experience with full cycle application development (Full SDLC experience: design, development, delivery, etc.), 3+ years with Agile, DevOps or CI\CD (Jenkins / Bitbucket)
• 5+ years real world experience implementing modern, scalable and extensible application and infrastructure design patterns, complex data algorithms, micro-service architectures, disposable, reactive, stateless and distributed patterns which ensure long term technical viability of new deployments.
• Working experience with native cloud architectures (AWS preferred)
• Experience architecting streaming / event driven data platforms, triangulating data lineage (Alation preferred) / data quality issues and familiarity with existing data operating models.
• Proven ability to lead a group through an architectural development process and collaborate with technical teams, business and other constituents.
• Experience leading small technical teams and a proven ability to mentor and guide multiple-disciplined (full stack) technical teams.
• Ability to discover and define functional requirements and to transform them into technical requirements and architecture definition.
• Expertise in open-source technologies including, but not limited to, NodeJS, React, Docker and PostgreSQL
• Experience working in scalable data warehousing platforms and data marts (Snowflake preferred)
• Proven ability to influence technology strategy and best practices across peer and leadership groups that support an agile\rapid development culture.
• Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written) and ability to communicate with internal and external customers and all levels of management, including communicating technical information to nontechnical audiences.
• A strong intellectual curiosity to continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving business and market.
• Other cloud-based tools / platform experience a plus but not required: Salesforce, Datadog, Cloudflare, Tableau, Lucidcharts
• Machine learning / deep learning experience is a plus.

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• Joining ARC means joining a team that is motivated, diverse, creative, collaborative and solutions-oriented. We think big, embrace challenges, and explore new ideas to lead the way for the travel industry.
• Our employees value the hands-on learning and professional development opportunities that allow them to expand their skills and grow their career in new, dynamic ways.
• ARC offers WorkFlex. WorkFlex is ARC’s hybrid work program which offers eligible employees the flexibility to work from home while also requiring in office workdays throughout the year to foster collaboration and connection throughout the organization. We’ve designed WorkFlex to enable employees to succeed and thrive while maintaining strong connections to one another and ARC - both of which are critical to our shared success.
• We offer a highly competitive, comprehensive benefits package so you can worry less and focus on what truly matters.
• By joining ARC, you will partner with top minds in the industry as we use data and technology to innovate how the world travels.

EOE M/F/D/V Females and Minorities Encouraged to Apply