Chief Architect, Airline Solutions

Sabre Holdings connects people with the world's greatest travel possibilities by retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry through our three companies: Travelocity, Sabre Travel Network and Sabre Airline Solutions. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, Sabre Holdings has approximately 9,000 employees in 45 countries. Our teams around the world work together to support travelers, travel agents, corporations, government agencies and travel suppliers. Our team members are people who take initiative, are resourceful and innovative, and are passionate about what they do. In return for their hard work and dedication, Sabre Holdings provides our employees with countless learning and growth opportunities, a healthy work-life balance and a fun, yet productive, work environment.  The role of Chief Architect is to provide leadership for the application architects of Sabre Airline Solutions and to help craft, validated and communicate the technical vision of this business unit in order to support quality, increase revenue and reduce cost for both Sabre and for Sabre's airline customers.As the lead technologist for Airline Solutions, this person is expected to have broad but applicable experience in application and enterprise architecture across multiple platforms and in a wide variety of architectures. As the primary evangelist and spokesperson for our overall technology vision which encompasses not just our own products, but also a technical innovation vision for the entire airline industry. This person is expected to be an articulate speaker and persuasive presenter able to present to a large audience of mixed technical and business background and also participate in critical discussions with the best technical minds in the industry and CIOs and CTOs from airlines all over the world. As the manager of the Central Architecture Team, the Chief Architect is expected to provide direction, mentorship and an example of technical excellence for some of the best developers and software architects in the travel industry. GENERAL DESCRIPTION: Responsible for providing consistent application architectural direction to development staff, coordinating with all other groups involved with product development. Analyze the impact of new business requirements to the systems and to the application architecture and make recommendations to developers on how best to implement the requirements. Responsible for setting development standards, interface (e.g. XML) standards, and coding standards. Responsible for working with the CTO to propose hardware & operating system platforms, communication protocols, middleware, interfaces (e.g. TCP/IP, FTP, MQ/Series, IDL, XML), and algorithms as necessary in order to product business requirements. Responsible for modeling systems resource consumption for new products and changes to existing products for use by capacity planning. Responsible for evaluating and proposing ideas that will improve the performance, maintainability, operability, or reliability of the system. Responsible to analyze, diagnose and identify solutions to system problems. Participates in architectural review teams as required. EDUCATION: Bachelors degree or equivalent; M.S. in Computer Science or related discipline preferred.  EXPERIENCE: Minimum 10 years related experience. Advanced application and systems architecture skills. Excellent communication skills, written and verbal; ability to lead and direct multiple projects/programs simultaneously; ability to delegate work to subordinate or less experienced team members; proven leadership ability.  SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS: Application Architecture: Identifies common business components and services that can be leveraged by multiple applications. Product Life Cycle: Working knowledge of phases of the product life cycle, including engineering specifications, customer requirements gathering, software design and development, testing - including unit, functional, systems and integration ? implementation/delivery and maintenance. Sabre Strategic Architecture: General knowledge of the company?s architectural practices and guidelines, Strategic Architectural Tenants, roadmap and security policies. Systems Analysis: Determines how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes, knowledge of products and system architecture . Systems Design: Generates or adapts equipment and technology to serve user needs; contributes to the development of business landscape, business architectures and solution architectures. Systems Integration: Knowledge of how different systems interact, including potential problems and difficulties that may occur. Technology Architecture: Defines architecture requirements and deliverables; ensures procedures for on-going operational support. Technology Strategy: Understands the company?s technology direction; ensures product development links to strategic business and technical strategies and objectives; knows where business is going and builds features into technical solutions. Job Title: Chief Architect, Airline Solutions Company: Sabre Location: Grapevine, TX Status: Full Time, Employee Job Category: IT/Software Development Career Level: Manager (Manager/Supervisor of Staff) Reference Code: 004FA The company helps provide this balance through outstanding value-based health and welfare benefits; financial security plans that include a 401(k) program; time off such as vacation, holidays, and flexible work arrangements such as telecommuting, compressed workweeks, flex-time, job sharing and reduced work schedules.