Enterprise Architect (Hospitality Solutions)

Sabre is a technology company that powers the global travel industry. By leveraging next-generation technology, we create global technology solutions that take on the biggest opportunities and solve the most complex challenges in travel.

Positioned at the center of the travel, we shape the future by offering innovative advancements that pave the way for a more connected and seamless ecosystem as we power mobile apps, online travel sites, airline and hotel reservation networks, travel agent terminals, and scores of other solutions.

Simply put, we connect people with moments that matter.

NOTE: TPG Capital, a global alternative asset management firm, recently acquired Hospitality Solutions. Over the coming months, Sabre is working with TPG to formally separate the Hospitality Solutions business from Sabre. It is important to understand that while you will be employed by a Sabre legal entity, your role will be to support the Hospitality Solutions business, which is now owned by TPG.

Hospitality Solutions, formerly part of Sabre Holdings, is a global leader at the forefront of hospitality technology powering over 40,000 properties across 174 countries. Celebrated for our innovative and customer-centric approach, we deliver integrated platforms for distribution, reservations, retailing, and guest experience to both renowned hotel brands and independent properties worldwide.

With the strategic support of TPG, a leading private equity firm, we are entering an era of accelerated growth, digital transformation, and operational excellence as a focused, independent company. Building on our legacy of driving technological evolution in hospitality, we are committed to setting new standards for guest satisfaction and operational efficiency. Central to this transformation is the establishment of a world-class procurement function that supports global scale, fosters operational rigor, and enables value creation and innovation across the enterprise.

Hospitality Solutions is looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect

Working in Hospitality Solution's Enterprise Architecture team gives you opportunities to develop your technical, business and intercultural skills, cooperating with people from all over the world.

Job Summary

As an Enterprise Architect, you'll be the technical visionary and leader for some of the most complex software systems at the core of the hospitality industry. You'll drive the architectural strategy, design, and development of our next-generation, cloud-native solutions, helping to redefine how hotels operate globally. This is a hands-on leadership role for a deep technologist who wants to have a direct, transformative impact on a major industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural Vision & Ownership: Lead, own, and drive the architecture and design of our core software systems, establishing the technical direction and ensuring all solutions are scalable, resilient, and extensible.
• Technical Leadership: Act as a technical and operational leader with a passion for cloud-native services, distributed systems, and modern development practices. You'll set the technical path for teams, mentor engineers, and conduct training.
• Hands-On Development: Be able and willing to spend time actively developing key components, creating scaffolding, and contributing code to set the standard for quality and performance.
• Strategy & Planning: Collaborate with product management, business stakeholders, and engineering leaders to define short- and long-term roadmaps, shaping business direction and driving non-functional requirements.
• Governance & Quality: Establish structures and processes that ensure a high level of quality, reliability, and security of deliverables. Drive code and design reviews, and provide architectural governance.
• Operational Excellence: Act as a technical escalation point for critical production issues, diagnosing system failures, identifying root causes, and implementing effective solutions.
• External & Internal Representation: Represent multiple technology domains internally and advocate for Hospitality Solutions in external forums and technical communities.

What's in it for you?

This is a unique opportunity to build game-changing solutions for the hospitality industry. You'll work with a state-of-the-art hotel property management system and have the freedom to innovate and shape the future of our platform. Your work will have a high impact, influencing one of the world's largest travel and hospitality technology companies.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a degree and equivalent experience.

Core Experience:

• Extensive hands-on experience architecting and building large-scale, highly available, distributed systems.
• Proven technical leadership ability in a senior, non-managerial role.
• Expert knowledge of integrations, including how disparate systems interact, and the technologies used for them
• Cloud & Technology:
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture, with experience in GCP. We are open to candidates with experience in other cloud platforms.
• Expertise in Cloud-Native development, including Kubernetes and containerization.
• Deep exposure to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and microservices patterns.
• Solid experience with large-scale RDBMS systems (e.g., Oracle) and NoSQL stores (e.g., Cassandra).
• Expert understanding of queuing (e.g., GCP Pub/Sub), and distributed caching technologies (e.g., Redis).
• AI & Emerging Tech:
• Experience with Google's AI platform, including the use of pre-trained models and the development of custom machine learning solutions. OpenAI/Azure/AWS experience is acceptable.
• Experience with Generative AI, including building solutions using large language models (LLMs) like Gemini.
• Experience implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectural patterns to build robust and accurate AI applications.
• AI Development Accelerators: Generative AI-powered code assistance tools such as Gemini or Copilot.

Software Development:

• Strong prior hands-on experience with a major programming language such as Java or .NET/C#.
• Expert understanding of OOP principles, design patterns, and best programming practices.
• Expertise in multi-threading and performance-oriented programming.
• DevOps and IaC experience on a cloud platform.
• QA awareness including Unit Tests, TDD, and performance testing.

Communication & Collaboration:

• Excellent ability to mediate deep technical discussions with developers and present complex concepts to non-technical business owners.
• A solid engineer-at-heart with a passion for technology, excellent abstraction skills, and a willingness to provide code-level insights.

Key Skills

• Cloud-Native: GCP, Kubernetes, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions.
• Programming: .NET, C#, Java, Python.
• Databases: Oracle, Cassandra, BigQuery, Redis, Couchbase, Memcached
• Middleware: GCP Pub/Sub, Apigee.
• AI/ML: Vertex AI, Gemini models, RAG implementation.
• Architecture: TOGAF, Microservices, Domain-Driven Design, Design Patterns.