Principal Java Software Architect - The Intelligence Exchange

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.

Sabre’s Intelligence Exchange is a cutting-edge data management platform that revolutionizes the way airlines approach big data. It exchanges, processes and analyzes large volumes coming from different sources of the airline industry to support decision making, influence business processes and deliver unique customer experience.

If you like the intellectual challenge, want to feel the team spirit and great atmosphere, this is the right team for you!

Responsibilities:

• Shapes the future for the Data Engineering organization
• Leads, mentors and coaches other team members to ensure the success of the team and the organization
• Actively contributes to all phases of software development life cycle
• Cooperates with Customers, Customer Care, Delivery, Product Team and Architects to understand business requirements, and to respond to their suggestions for improvements and enhancements
• Provides consistent architectural direction to development teams
• Analyzes the impact of new business requirements to the system
• Makes recommendations to developers on how best to implement the requirements
• Sets development, API, and coding standards
• Works with operations & infrastructure teams assisting in capacity planning, determining communication protocols, middleware, interfaces (e.g. TCP/IP, FTP, MQ/Series, Web Services) and algorithms as necessary in order to product business requirements
• Models systems resource consumption for new products/components and changes to existing products/components for use by capacity planning
• Evaluates and proposes ideas that improve the performance, maintainability, operability or reliability of the system
• Analyzes, diagnoses, and identifies solutions to system issues, bottlenecks, inefficiencies
• Participates in architectural design & review teams as required
• Creates Prototypes, PoC and participates in development, test and debugging activities for new and existing software solutions

Requirements:

• Around 8 years of experience in developing production ready Java systems.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent. Master's Degree in Computer science or Engineering preferred
• Advanced application and systems architecture skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to lead and direct multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent analysis skills and persistence in problem solving
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design and programming, data modeling, and entity-relationship diagrams
• Ability to translate complex problems clearly and in non-technical terms
• Outstanding problem solver

“Nice to have” skills:

• Knowledge of the travel industry and the Sabre eco-system
• Spring Core as well as Spring Boot frameworks.
• Experience working with containers (Docker) and Kubernetes
• Experience in designing GUI from architecture point of view

Work arrangements

• Hybrid working mode; up to 3 chosen days from the office in a week
• Flexible working hours: Maintain your work-life balance by adjusting your working hours to your needs

Paid time off

• Year-End-Break: enjoy additional fully paid days off during the last week of the year
• Paid parental leave: Take up to 12 weeks off with pay after birth or adoption of a child. Sabre Global Paid Parental Leave runs concurrently with local leave policies.
• Paid volunteer time: take up to 4 days annually to give your time to a charitable organization of your choice

Your money

• My Benefit platform/Multisport card: enjoy the benefit cafeteria system and use popular sport card
• Tax deduction: take the opportunity to claim deductible costs, reducing your income tax
• Employee Capital Plans: profit from long-term saving scheme co-financed by Sabre and the State Treasury
• Baby Bonus: benefit from one-time allowance on childbirth or adoption
• Say Thanks program: collect points on recognition program and transfer them to wide variety of gifts and services

Health and wellness

• Luxmed VIP medical coverage: take care of yourself and your family with the extensive medical package with a broad range of additional services
• Foreign travel insurance: feel safe going abroad with free Allianz insurance offered as part of our Lux Med package
• Employee Assistance Program: find help in free, confidential program with a certified counselor
• Mindfulness & meditation apps: take care of your mental and physical health
• Life insurance: sign up for free, high coverage life insurance program

Career development

• Professional development: access to e-learning platforms as well as join Sabre live learning sessions
• Certification and tuition reimbursement
• Our Communities: join one of our team member groups focused on sharing knowledge and best practices (Google Developers Group, Innovation Lab Community, Women in Technology, SOLVE!T and many more)

And more

• Car and bike parking
• Fun & Relax zone in modern office: enjoy electronic tables to work, foosball, ping pong, pool table, swings, massage chairs and terraces to admire a panoramic view of Kraków. We have parents’ rooms as well
• No dress code
• Innovation Lab: access Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality equipment, Robot construction kit, 3D printers and many more
• Attractive Referral Bonus: earn $2500 USD for every hired referral