Architect – Data & Microservices

Job Title

Architect – Data & Microservices

Summary of the role 

Navitaire, an Amadeus company, are proven innovators in the travel industry shaping the way the world thinks about travel. With more than 50 customers worldwide, including many of the world’s most successful hybrid and low-cost airlines, Navitaire offers a unique opportunity to make a large impact on the world of travel.   

 

Navitaire is evolving our portfolio of hosted services towards a next-generation modern airline retailing platform aligned to industry offer and order retailing concepts. This transformation is founded in principles of customer-centric value delivery and driven by cloud-first modern engineering practices. We are looking for talented and motivated people with a passion to innovate, collaborate, and learn together to join our team that will shape the evolution of our platform. 

​This is a hybrid position and would require you to be in the local office 2-3 days a week.  

 

An ideal candidate will have experience implementing or designing cloud native solutions that use such cloud native architecture patterns and practices.  They will have experience analyzing data for transformation from SQL to NoSQL.  They will analyze and document the structure of our current databases, help create new data models, and ensure alignment with business requirements, rules, and regulations. They will be effective communicators that can collaborate closely with team members on cross functional scrum teams.  They will work with product owners and engineers to identify, plan and prioritize the work needed to evolve data between legacy and new systems.  They will assist with designing bridge mechanisms to synchronize data between systems.  They will document the systems being created using diagrams and other visualizations, to support operational and deployment planning and security review artifacts. 

The successful candidate will analyze and document the structure of our current databases, help create new data models, and ensure alignment with business requirements, rules, and regulations. This role requires a deep understanding of data management, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work closely with cross-functional teams and enterprise data architect.   

 

Key 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 recommendation to both technical and non-technical stakeholders 

• Provide support and training to users of new data models and database structures. 

• Database Analysis and Documentation 

• 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. 

• Data Modeling 

• 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. 

• Data Management 

• Understand and apply relevant data governance, data privacy, and regulatory req