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The resource must translate airline business outcomes into secure, resilient and supportable solutions across the organisation, Amadeus and partner ecosystems while remaining sufficiently hands-on to guide implementation and resolve complex production issues.What you'll do:\nOwn current-state, transition and target architecture for flysaa.com and related digital channels, including flight shopping, booking, payment, check-in, manage-booking, corporate travel, loyalty, mobile and operational applications.\nLead solution design for integrations with Amadeus Altéa, RefX, airline web services, payment providers, loyalty platforms, Star Alliance services and other third-party or internal systems.\nProvide architecture and technical governance for Java/Spring Boot microservices, REST and SOAP APIs, middleware, web applications, mobile applications, caching, messaging and data integrations.\nShape organisation's airline-retailing roadmap, including NDC shopping, Offer and Order concepts, dynamic offers, corporate distribution and progressive modernisation of legacy booking journeys.\nDefine cloud and hybrid architecture for AWS-hosted applications, including EKS, containerisation, networking, load balancing, security controls, secrets, observability, scalability, resilience, backup and disaster recovery.\nEstablish non-functional requirements covering availability, response time, throughput, data protection, auditability, accessibility, supportability and recovery objectives.\nChair or participate in design authority reviews; produce solution architecture documents, interface specifications, architecture decision records, sequence diagrams and deployment views.\nLead technical planning and delivery across internal teams, systems integrators, offshore developers, SaaS providers and airline technology vendors.\nSupport technical due diligence, effort estimation, procurement evaluations, vendor challenge sessions and acceptance of third-party solution designs.\nProvide escalation leadership for critical incidents, cross-system defects and performance or integration failures, ensuring root-cause analysis and permanent corrective actions.\nMaintain architecture standards and ensure that security, privacy, PCI DSS, POPIA and company governance obligations are reflected in designs and implementation.\nCoach technical leads and engineers and ensure structured knowledge transfer to company personnel and appointed service providers.\nYour expertise:A minimum of 15 years' experience in enterprise software engineering, solution delivery or technology leadership.\nA minimum of 10 years' demonstrable experience in airline or travel technology, including direct delivery of airline digital commerce or passenger-service integrations.\nAt least 5 years' experience performing solution architecture, enterprise architecture or technical design authority responsibilities for business-critical platforms.\nDemonstrable experience leading backend, API and middleware delivery for a large airline website or comparable airline digital platform.\nDemonstrable experience coordinating multidisciplinary and distributed delivery teams, including on-site, remote and vendor resources.\nHands-on experience with airline shopping, booking, PNR servicing, payment, check-in, loyalty, ancillary, notification or baggage-related journeys.\nProven experience integrating Amadeus Altéa and/or comparable passenger service systems using REST, SOAP, Self-Service or enterprise airline APIs.\nDemonstrable experience in the architecture of Java/Spring-based services, API-led integration, microservices and containerised workloads on AWS and Kubernetes/EKS.\nExperience with Agile delivery, DevOps practices, technical assurance, code-quality governance and production support. 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